Yevgeny Gor

Painter, graphic artist, object artist, installation artist, collagist, book designer. Born in the family of Rafail Gor in the district of Saltykovka near the town of Balashikha in Moscow Region (1950). Graduated from Moscow Secondary School of Art (1968) and Moscow Institute of Polygraphy (1973). Took up abstract art (late 1970s). Worked at Ely Belyutin’s studio in Abramtsevo (1980–85). Member of the Union of Artists (1983) and Polygon (1990). Collaborated with Olga Lozovskaya on book designs for Practica Publishing House (from 1994) and AST-Press (2007). Lives and works in Moscow. Contributed to exhibitions in Russia (from 1974) and abroad (from 1986). Contributed to the Youth Exhibitions of the Union of Artists in Moscow (1975–86), Exhibition of Five Young Moscow Artists at the House of the Artist on Zoltowski Street in Moscow (1981), XII. bienále užité grafiky in Brno (1986), First Creative Unification of Moscow Artists in Moscow (1987, 1988), Urbi et orbi at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1988), Neuvostoliiton Nuorta Taidetta at Turun taidemuseo in Turku (1988), Labyrinth at the Palace of Youth in Moscow (1988), Labyrinth: Neue Kunst aus Moskau at Katowice in Poland, Schloss Wotersen near Hamburg and Schloss Bennigsen near Hanover (1989), Form and Image: Exhibition of Graphic Art by Moscow Artists at the Nikanor Onatsky Regional Museum of Art in Sumy (1989), Collection 89 at the Venäjän tiede- ja kulttuurikeskus in Helsinki (1989), Czerwone i bia?e: Wschodnia fala / Red and White: The Eastern Wave at the Hala Gwardii in Warsaw and the Galeria Dijkstra in Amsterdam (1989–90), Scientific-Technical Progress and Art at the House of the Artist on Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1990), Logic of Paradox at the Palace of Youth in Moscow (1990), New Reality at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1990), Pittori moscoviti contemporanei at the Palazzo Rondanini alla Rotonda in Rome (1990), Zeitgenössische Künstler aus Moskau at the Osteuropäisches Kulturzentrum in Cologne (1990), Exhibition of Fourteen Moscow Artists at the House of the Artist on Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1990), In the Direction of Abstraction at the Dom 100 Gallery in Moscow (1991), Junge internationale Kunst at the EP-Galerie in Düsseldorf (1991), Contemporary Russian Artists at the City Gallery in Melbourne (1991), Exhibition of Six Moscow Artists at Le Cadre Gallery in Hong Kong (1991), Malevich Centre in the Paleontological Museum at the Yury Orlov Paleontological Museum in Moscow (1992), Modern Graphic Art of Russia at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1994), Moscow Artists: A New Look in the Moscow Gallery at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1994), Painting and Graphic Art by Artists of the USSR: Sixties to Eighties at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1994), ?-1, ?-2, ?-3 at the A3 Gallery in Moscow (1995), Moscow–Jerusalem at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1996), Gallery in a Gallery at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1996), Anthology of Elementary Art at the Belyaevo Gallery in Moscow (1997), “Dialogues” International Biennial of Contemporary Art at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg (1997), Untitled at the Russian Cultural Foundation in Moscow (1997), Closed City at the Hay-Art Cultural Centre in Yerevan (1999), Kesher 5 at the Mittelrhein-Museum in Koblenz (2001), Abstraction in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02), Moscow Abstraction: Second Half of the 20th Century at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (2003), Eurographic 2004 at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Moscow (2004), Revision of the Material at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (2005–06), Collage in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2005–06), Adventures of the Black Square at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2007), Heavenly Matters at the A3 Gallery in Moscow (2009), exhibitions of Polygon at the Kashirka Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1990), Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1994) and the Cultuurcentrum Gildhof in Tielt, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek-Bever in Brussels, Cultuurcentrum Berchem in Antwerp and Cultuurcentrum Kortrijk in Kortrijk (1995–96), joint exhibitions with Valery Aizenberg at the L Gallery in Moscow (1989), with Alexander Pankin and Gennady Vasilkov at the Galerie Leuchter & Peltzer in Düsseldorf (1989) and with Alexander Pankin at the Luxemburgisches Schloss in Königstein im Taunus (1990) and one-man shows at the A3 Gallery in Moscow (1993, 2010), Galerie Salustowicz in Bielefeld (1994), Russian Cultural Foundation in Moscow (1997), Manège Gallery in Moscow (1999) and Jüdisches Museum in Rendsburg (1999).