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
About the Light, Ober Gallery, CT

2014

John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY

2012

Leonid Lerman, Sculpture Garden and Carriage House, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
Playing with Fire: Terracottas, McKee Gallery

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
Landscape of a Victory, McKee Gallery, New York

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
Sculptor’s Book, The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2015

The Annual: 2015, National Academy Museum, New York
Art in Sixes, Delaware Valley Art Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY

2014-2015 *

Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

2014

Art in Nature, Greenwood Gardens, Short Hills, NJ
Contemporary Drawing, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

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
Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York

2009

XXXMalevich, Anya Stonelake/White Space Gallery, London
Art About Art, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

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
*Twentieth Century Sculptors of Russian and Eastern European Origin, Mimi Ferzt 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
Three Works from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Audrey Jones Beck Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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
Shaping Space: Drawings by Six Contemporary Sculptors, Dunedin Fine Art Center, FL Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York

1995

Heroes and Heroines: From Myth to Reality, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
5 + 5, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York
Prospekts: Contemporary Russian Art from New York, Chase Manhattan Bank, SoHo,NY

1994

Ideal Landscapes: Artists from the Former Soviet Union, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
Selected Works on Paper, Modernism, San Francisco

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
*The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Drawing Center, New York
Russian Artists in Exile, Milton J. Weill Art Gallery, 92nd Street Y, New York

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
Kraine Gallery, New York
*Kenkeleba Gallery, New York

1986*

Gallery International 52, New York
No Se No Gallery, New York

1985

IMF, Washington, D.C.
P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
Galerie Marie-Therese, Paris, France
C.A.S.E. Museum of Russian Contemporary Art in Exile, Jersey City, NJ
13 Hour Gallery, New York Sculpture Center Gallery, New York

1984

Sculpture Center Gallery, New York
Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York
Now 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

  1. Dominick Lombardi, “Leonid Lerman at McKee Gallery,” The Huffington Post, November 19, 2012. [web page]; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/d-dominick-lombardi/new-hudsonsecond-nature_b_1972079.html [Accessed December 1, 2012].

“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