LEONID LERMAN
(Born 1953 in Odessa, Ukraine)
EDUCATION
1965-1969 |
Odessa School of Art |
1970-1971 |
Professional School of Mosaics and Wood Carving, Odessa |
1979 |
M.F.A. from Mukhina Higher School of Art and Industry, USSR |
AWARDS
1981 |
Receives James Wilburt Johnston Sculpture Award, Washington, D.C. |
2011 |
Elected as honorary National Academician, National Academy Museum, New York, NY |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 |
John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY - Forthcoming |
2016 |
Touched by Verses and Related Works, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY |
2014 |
John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY |
2012 |
Leonid Lerman, Sculpture Garden and Carriage House, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY |
2010 |
Leonid Lerman: Casting Shadows, McKee Gallery |
2008* |
Phantom of Malevich, White Space Gallery, London |
2006 |
New Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York |
2005* |
Leonid Lerman: The Last Man and Related Works, Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA |
2003* |
The Last Man, McKee Gallery, New York |
2002 |
Ronchini Arte Contemporanea, Terni, Italy |
1999 |
New Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York |
1994 |
Leonid Lerman: Complex Presentiment, Modernism, San Francisco |
1993 |
Paintings, McKee Gallery, New York |
1989* |
Leonid Lerman: Sculptures and Drawings, Riskin-Sinow Gallery, San Francisco, CA Sculpture Center Gallery, New York |
1988* |
On the Edge: The Sculpture of Leonid Lerman, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC |
1987 |
Tradition Three Thousand Gallery, New York |
1986 |
Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York |
1985* |
C.A.S.E. Museum of Russian Contemporary Art in Exile, Jersey City, NJ |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 |
Thinking Flat, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY |
2015 |
The Annual: 2015, National Academy Museum, New York |
2014-2015 * |
Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC |
2014 |
Art in Nature, Greenwood Gardens, Short Hills, NJ |
2012* |
2012 * The Annual: 2012, Contemporary Art Since 1826, National Academy Museum, New York |
2010 |
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York |
2009 |
XXXMalevich, Anya Stonelake/White Space Gallery, London |
2007 |
Small Bodies, McKee Gallery, New York |
2006 |
Collage in Russia, 20th Century, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
2005 |
Sculpture: An Intuitive View, McKee Gallery, New York |
2004* |
Drawing Today, New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT |
2002 |
National Academy of Design Museum, New York |
2001 |
A Private Reading: The Book As Image and Object, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, NY |
2000 |
Group Show, McKee Gallery, New York |
1999-2000 |
Manifestations of the Human Spirit, Joshua Lowenfels, The Baldacchino, New York |
1999 |
Red Square, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, New York |
1998* |
The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, FL |
1995 |
Heroes and Heroines: From Myth to Reality, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ |
1994 |
Ideal Landscapes: Artists from the Former Soviet Union, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA |
1993-1994 |
Old Symbols / New Icons in Russian Contemporary Art, Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York |
1993 |
Monumental Propaganda, Courtyard Gallery, World Financial Center, New York |
1990 |
State Russian Museum, Leningrad |
1989-1990* |
Transit: Russian Artists Between the East and West, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York |
1988 |
Res Nova Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
1987 |
City Gallery, New York |
1986* |
Gallery International 52, New York |
1985 |
IMF, Washington, D.C. |
1984 |
Sculpture Center Gallery, New York |
1983 |
Terminal New York, Brooklyn, New York |
1982* |
Centre des Congrès de Québec, Canada |
1978 |
Manege Exhibition Hall, Leningrad |
* catalogue
SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
“Leonid Lerman: I am Interested in Universal Art,” ARTS: The Art Magazine, Vol. 10. LXV. No. 572, 2010
Eric Gelber, “Small Bodies: Sculptures by Leonid Lerman, Jeanne Silverthorne, and William Tucker,” The New York, Sun, April 26, 2007
Jonathan Gilmore, “Leonid Lerman at McKee,” Art in America, April 2007
“A Visit to Leonid Lerman’s Studio,” Logos, [web page]; http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_4.1/lerman.htm [Accessed, March 31, 2005]
Ron Schira, “Creating a Language for One’s Art,” Reading Eagle, January 23, 2005
Barry Walker, “Tina Turner, Christopher Wilmarth / In the Blue Blackness of My Sleep, Leonid Lerman: From The Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, brochure, 2000
Lance Esplund, “The More the Merrier,” Modern Painters, Winter 1999
Nancy Princenthal, “Leonid Lerman at McKee,” Art in America, September 1999
Ken Johnson, “Leonid Lerman,” The New York Times, March 26, 1999
Deborah Everett, NY Arts, vol. 4, no. 3, 1999
JoAnne Milani, “Gallery Gilmpses,” The Tampa Tribune, August 23, 1998
“Body Types,” New York Magazine, August 3, 1998
JoAnne Milani, “Quality’s the theme in collector’s show,” The Tampa Tribune, May 24, 1998
“Leonid Lerman,” Art Korea, April 1998
Karen Wilkin, “At the Galleries,” Partisan Review, Spring 1993
Phyllis Braff, “Emigré Works Reflect Tension of the Journey,” The New York Times, November 19, 1989
Max Halperen, “An artist between two cultures: The moralistic wit of Leonid Lerman,” The Arts Journal, October 1988
Dennis Szakacs, “Sightings: Great Fun,” The Independent, September 22 – October 5, 1988
Henry A. Vermillion, The Spectator, September 15 – 21, 1988
Max Halperen, “Fight of the century,” Leader Magazine, September 15, 1988
Jana Kollias, “Artist searches for identity,” The Chronicle, September 8, 1988
Roger Green, “Nova artists shine together,” The Times-Picayune, March 6, 1988
Naomi Kenan, “’Eight One-Man Shows’ on exhibition,” The Jersey Journal, November 1, 1985
Ileana Suarez, “Artists paint Lady Liberty on box car,” The Hudson Dispatch, November 8, 1984