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Artists›Ilya Kabakov

Ilya Kabakov

1933

SculptureConceptual Art

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

102

Works in Collection

222

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• Conceptual Art

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About

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Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov was an American and Soviet conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, now Ukraine. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. After emigrating to the United States he lived and worked on Long Island.

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Movement

Conceptual Art

Medium

Sculpture

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Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Tate

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Artworks (102)

Encounter with an Angel

2000 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 28 3/16 × 35 5/16" (71.6 × 89.7 cm); sheet: 33 7/8 × 43 1/2" (86 × 110.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

How Can One Change One's Self?

2000 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 28 3/8 × 35 5/16" (72.1 × 89.7 cm); sheet: 33 7/8 × 43 7/16" (86 × 110.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Woman as a Fountain: Courtyard Sculpture Project

1998 · Etching and soft ground etching on off-white wove paper

Image: 60.9 × 45.3 cm (24 × 17 7/8 in.); Sheet: 71 × 54.6 cm (28 × 21 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman as Fountain: Courtyard Sculpture Project

1998 · Etching

composition: 23 7/8 x 17 13/16" (60.7 x 45.2 cm); sheet: 27 15/16 x 21 3/8" (71 x 54.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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The Sky II from Sitting-in-the-Closet Primakov (from Ten Characters)

1994 · One from a portfolio of forty-seven offset lithographs, mounted on board

composition: 6 15/16 × 9 13/16" (17.7 × 25 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 × 13 3/4" (51 × 35 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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"Anna Germanovna, their mother-in-law..." (Commentary by Gryazina) from Sitting-in-the-Closet Primakov (from Ten Characters)

1994 · One from a portfolio of forty-seven offset lithographs, mounted on board

composition: 11 15/16 × 8 1/4" (30.3 × 21 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 × 13 3/4" (51 × 35 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Father Came Home from Work from Sitting-in-the-Closet Primakov( from Ten Characters)

1994 · One from a portfolio of forty-seven offset lithographs, mounted on board

composition: 7 1/8 × 9 13/16" (18.1 × 25 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 × 13 3/4" (51 × 35 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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"In the Closet..." (First Album) from Sitting-in-the-Closet Primakov (from Ten Characters)

1994 · One from a portfolio of forty-seven offset lithographs, mounted on board

composition: 11 7/8 × 8 1/4" (30.2 × 21 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 × 13 3/4" (51 × 35 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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