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Rimantas Idelis  


EDUCATION AND WORK

1954-57 Art School of the Academy of Fine Art, Leningrad, Russia
1957-58 Art School of the Surikov Institute, Moscow
1960-64 Sculpture Courses at the Repin Institute of Fine Arts, Leningrad
1965-67 Taught Sculpture at the Children’s House of Culture, Leningrad
1967-69 Art History and Theory Courses at the Repin Institute, Leningrad
1968-69 Art Restorer at the State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad
1969-70 Artistic Decorator at the Leningrad Flim Studio (Korol Lir, 1969, Dir.G.Kozintsev)


During the years 1970 - 71, worked extensively in Leningrad and Moscow.

In 1972, Ney emigrated from Russia to France where he spent two years until he immigrated to the United States in 1974.


ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

1972 Centre Artistique de Recontres Internationale, Nice, France
1973 Maison des Artistes, Nogent-sur-Marne, Paris
1973-74 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1978 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1974 Hansen Gallery, New York

1975 Private Exhibition, home of Mr. and Mrs. Goodhue Livingston, New York;
Wainscott, New York
Port Authority Library, One World Trade Center, New York
Gallery of Greater Middletown Arts Council, Middletown, New York

1977 Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine

1979 Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York

Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, Los Angeles

1980 Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, La Jolla, California

1981 Arras Gallery, New York

1986 St. Mark’s Gallery, New York

1987 Foundation for Future Generations, New York

1988 Foundation for Future Generations, New York

1992 Gallery Saireido, New York

1993 JCB Plaza, Rockefeller Center, New York

1994 LMG Gallery, New York

1997 The Case Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, New Jersey

1998 Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Zalman Gallery, New York
Private Exhibition, home of pianist Vladimir Viardo, Cresskill, New Jersey


WINDOWS at TIFFANY & Co

New York: 1978, twice in 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994

Atlanta: 1982

Boston: 1991, 1993, 1994


COLLECTIONS

Gene Moore of Tiffany & Co.
Walter Ford II
Betty Parsons Collection
The Pierre Matisse Collection
The Charles and Evelyn Kramer Collection
Walter Artzt
Mrs. Erica Jesselson
Elaine de Kooning Collection
Marilyn Fischbach Collection
The Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
The C.A.S.E Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, New Jersey
The Yeshiva University Museum, New York
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow
The State Tsaritsino Museum, New York
The Tabakman Museum, New York
Museum Beeldan aan Zee, The Netherlands

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1970 “My Leningrad”, Young Artists Division, Artists’ Union, Leningrad

1971 Young Artists Division, Artists’ Union, Moscow

1972 Centre Artistique de Recontres Internationale, Nice, France

1974 “Art d’Aujourdhui”, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
Genevieve Gallery, New York
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

1975 Roko Gallery, New York
Tchernov Gallery, New York
Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine
Banakh Gallery, New York
“Russian Émigré Artists”, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York

1976 Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
“La Peinture Russe Contemporaine”, Palais de Congres, Paris

1977 “Russian Artists: Works of the 70’s”, Glass Gallery, New York
M.Elson Gallery, New York
Stonington Art Gallery, Stonington, Connecticut
“Artists 77”, International Art Exhibition at the Union Carbide Building, New York
Artists Unlimited Gallery, New York
“La Nuova Arte Sovietica”, La Bienalle di Venezia, Venice, Italy
“Art et matiere: Avec la participation des artistes Russes contemporains”, Orangerie du
Luxembourg, Paris

1978 La Bienalle di Turin, Turin, Italy
Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York

1979 East-West Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
The C.A.S.E Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, New Jersey

1980 Buyways Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
“Unofficial Russian Art: Seven from Russia”, Gallery Moscow-Petersburg, New York

1981 “Les Dissidents Russe”, Chateau de Vascoeuil, France
Bregenzer Kunstlerhaus, Bregenz, West Germany
Francis Aronson Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia
“An Enrichment of American Culture:Russian Emigres, American Immigres”,
Center for the Arts, Muhlenburg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania

1982 Virginia Miller Galleries, Miami, Florida
Francis Aronson Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia
Luisa McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas

1983 Lagerquist Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
Rizzoli International, Dallas, Texas
American Art Incorporated, Sarasota, Florida
Smith Galleries, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, Houston, Texas

1984 Madeline McConnell Fine Custom Art, Hollywood, Florida
Simone Stern Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Douglas W. Kessler Gallery, Cincinnatti, Ohio
Fame Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina

1985 Bowles/Hopkins Gallery, San Francisco
“Art in The Sky”, Arras Gallery, Trump Tower, New York

1986 Art Insights, New York
Arras Gallery, Trump Tower, New York
Ann Jacob Gallery, Phipps Plaza, Atlanta, Georgia
Sloane Gallery of Art, Denver, Colorado
“Russians in America”, Gallery International 52, New York

1987 Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York
Naples Art Gallery, Naples, Florida
Davenport Gallery, Greensville, South Carolina
“Retrospective: 1957-1987”, Gallery Hermitage, Moscow

1988 Davenport Gallery, Greensville, South Carolina
Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York

1989 “Transit: Russian Artists Between the East and West”
Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York;
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Central Exhibition Hall, Krymski Val, Moscow

1990 Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York
Bosse-Kapella Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
Golda Meir Association, New York
1992 Alex Edmund Gallery, New York
“Russians Beyond the Border”, Diageliv Center of Art, St. Petersburg, Russia

1994 Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York
Arras Gallery, Trump Tower, New York

1995 “Kunst im Verborgenen:Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1987”
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany;
Documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany;
Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany;
Manege Exhibition Hall, Moscow;
“The Alexander Glezer Collection”, The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow

1997 “A World Through These Eyes”, The State Cherboksary Art Museum, Cheboksary, Russia
“The History of Contemporary Russian Art in Portraits: 1956-1996”
Traveling exhibition through Nizhi Novgorod, Samara, Perm, Novosibirsk,
Ekaterinburg, Russia
“Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde”
The Williamson Gallery, Pasadena College of Design, Pasadena, California;
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia;
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio

1998 Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York
“Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Contemporary Russian Art”, Resnick Gallery,
Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York
“Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde”, Mc Mullen Museum of Art,
Boston College, Boston

2000 Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York

2001 “Forbidden Art of Postwar Russia”, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut
“300th Anniversaries of St. Petersburg and Yale University”, Russian Consulate, New York

2002 “La Coleccion de Jean-Jacques Gueron, 1960 - 2000”;
Centro de Cultura Castillo de Maya, Fundacion Caja Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

2003 “La Coleccion de Jean-Jacques Gueron, 1960 - 2000”;
Sala de Exposiciones Mauro Muriedas, Ayuntamiento Torrelavega Concejalia
De Cultura y Educacion, Torrelavega, Cantabria
“St. Petersburg in New York”, The C.A.S.E Museum of Contemporary Russian Art,
Jersey City, New Jersey
Museum of the Imagination, Hudson, New York
“Portraits”, Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Bown, Matthew Cullerne. A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian and Soviet Painters: 1900 - 1980s.
London: IZO Limited, 1998.

Chemiakin, Mihail. Chemiakin. Ontario, Canada: Mosaic Press, 1986.

Dodge, Norton and Alla Rosenfeld, ed. From Gulag to Glasnost. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1995.

Glezer, Alexander. Contemporary Russian Art. Paris, Moscow and New York: Third Wave, 1993.

Moore, Gene and Judith Goldman. Windows at Tiffany’s. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980.

Moore, Gene and Jay Hyams. My Time at Tiffany’s. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.

Rosenfeld, Alla, Donald Kuspit, John E. Bowlt, et al. Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde.
Los Angeles, California: Curatorial Assistance, 1998.

Artistas Rusos Inconformistas (1960 - 2000): La Coleccion Jean-Jacques Gueron. Pamplona, Spain:
Caja Navarra Fundacion, 2002.

The History of Contemporary Russian Art in Portraits: 1956 - 1996. Moscow: Open Society Institute, 1996.

Transit: Russian Artists Between the East and West. Hempstead, New York:
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, 1989.

A-Ya Magazine No. 5. Paris, Moscow, and New York: 1983.

Tretya Volna No. 10. Paris, Moscow and New York: Third Wave, 1980.
(Cover photograph of Vladimir Vysotsky with sculpture by A. Ney)