Bliumis Alina & Jeff

Works Biography

Works

Bliumis Alina & Jeff
Cloning factory project. Bunnies, 2006.
aluminium,
30 x 40 x 7
Bliumis Alina & Jeff
Soft Classics series. Pushkin, 2009.
acrylic, cast foam, ink,
35.5 x 22.8 x 17.8
Bliumis Alina & Jeff
Soft Classics series. Gogol, 2009.
acrylic, cast foam, ink,
22.8 x 22.8 x 17.8
Bliumis Alina & Jeff
Soft Classics series. Einstein, 2009.
acrylic, cast foam, ink,
31.8 x 24 x 17.8

Solo exhibitions

2020

Narrating Against the Grain, Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia; with Tanja Muravskaja

Masses, Drawing Now, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

Masses, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, USA

2019

Classification Patterns: Christian, Muhammad, Lee, “Y” Gallery of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus

On the Land of Eagles, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

Poems without Borders, Project Statement, Parallel, Vienna, Austria

Nations Unleashed, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, USA

2018

Political Animals, Aperto Raum, Berlin, Germany

Political Animals, Aperto Room, St.Petersburg, Russia

Amateur Bird Watching at Passport Control, Pushkin House, London, UK

Cultural Tips For New Americans Under Trump, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, USA

2016

Cultural Tips For New Americans. Popiashvili Gvaberidze Window Project, Tbilisi, Georgia

Recent Works. Bushel, Delhi, NY, USA

2014

Thank You Paintings Exchange. Denny Gallery, New York, USA

Casual Conversations. The Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, New York, USA

2013

Casual Conversations. The Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, New York, USA

Which country is the best to move to? Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris

A Painting For A Family Dinner / Lecce, Italy

A Painting For A Family Dinner / Beijing, China

2012

Cultural Tips takeaway. Toomer Labzda Gallery, New York, USA

Language Barrier and Other Obstacles. Peacock Visual Arts, Center For Contemporary Art, Aberdeen, Scotland

A Painting For A Family Dinner. Bronx, New York, USA

Public Art Project. Documentation at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, USA

Casual Conversations. National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, USA

2011

Cultural Tips For New Americans. A public art project. Lower Manhattan, New York, USA

Global Reach Inc. Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA

2010

Cultural Tips For New Americans. Galerie Stanislas Bourgain, Paris, France

2009

Casual Conversations in Brooklyn. Black and White Project Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2008

Dam Lines. Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA

Language Barrier. Lower Manhattan, Public Art Installation, New York, USA

Language Barrier. Yellow Pages, Galerie Stanislas Bourgain, Paris, France

Hello, USA?. Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow, Russia

Language Barrier. ImPulse. Pulse, New York, USA

2005

Cloning Factory. Ovalhalle, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria

2004

Pink and Pong. Kvadrat Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia

2003

Videolog. Center of Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow, Russia

Group exhibitions

2017

Ernst. Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2016

The Lives of Forms. Lower East Side Printshop, New York, USA

Making Continuity Contemporary: Eastern Europe in New York. Derfner Judaica Museum, Bronx, NY, USA

The Bronx Speaks Our Home. Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, NY, USA

2015

DEAD: A Celebration Of Mortality. The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art. The James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY, NY, USA

2014

NASS BELGICA L'immigration marocaine en Belgique. Botanique Museum, Brussels, Belgium

Time:Code. Whitebox Art Center, NY, USA

2013

Unhinged. Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2012

Summer Solstice. Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA

This Side of Paradise, NoLongerEmpty. Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, New York, USA

Foreign Bodies. Barbur, Jerusalem, Israel

Generation One and a Half. Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, USA

Civil Disobedience Festival. De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Foreign Bodies. Set Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Cultural Tips For Foreigners In Russia. PSTOP public art initiative by PERMM, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia

Art Moscow. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2011

Media Impact. International Festival Of Activist Art, within the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

About Face, No Longer Empty. Festival of Ideas for a New City, New Museum, New York, USA

Electrica. Instituto Cervantes, New York, USA

2010

New Acquisition. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Artistes russes: Un art au superlatif. Centre d'art contemporain, Maymac, Kyrgyzstan

Now We Are Six. Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA

2009

American Dream / Be Happy. Pulse Miami Installation Program, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA

Frozen Reality. Holster Projects, London, UK

No Longer Empty. Chelsea Hotel, New York, USA

The Situation. The 3-rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Ultra-New Materiality. The 3-rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2008

Moby Hosting. Bat-Yam Museum, Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, Bat-Yam, Israel

Off The Wall: Artists At Work. The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

Moscow - New York = Parallel Play. Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA

A Matter of Time. Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA

ENewYork/Mexico/Paris. Estacion Indianilla Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

2007

MOCA Mix film. MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA

Left Pop. The 2-nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Media Image and Unconscious. The 2-nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Victory Over The Sun. National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia

Double Take / Remake. National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia

Pulse New Art Fair. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2006

Making Love To My Ego, PureScreen #14. Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK

Sea Art Festival. Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea

Out of Paint. Kuhn Gallery, The Ohio State University Marion, Marion, Ohio, USA

Unauthorized Access. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Aesthetics of Resistance. Assab One, Milan, Italy

Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art Russia. Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, USA

Korperchen. Veranstalter Medienwerkstatt, Vienna

2005

Russia Redux #1. Schroeder Romero Gallery, NY, USA

Aesthetics of Resistance, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy

Post-Diasporas: Voyages and Missions. The 1-st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2004

Symbols of the Big Bang. Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

2003

St. Petersburg. Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA

Videolog. Donnell Library Center, New York, USA

RAP. Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts Conference. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Femininity's Redress. Angel Orensanz Foundation Center For The Arts, New York, USA

Divine Women - Divine Work. Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, USA

Biography

Alina and Jeff Bliumis are New York-based artists who have worked collaboratively since 2000. Alina received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 1999 and a diploma from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy in 2005. Jeff received his BA from Columbia University in 1981. Born in the Soviet Union they both emigrated to the United States. Their work is based on their experience of emigration and the confrontation with a cultural and social environment different from their native country; it evokes the themes of immigration, language and multi-cultural communities. Their works are in various private and public collections, including MAC VAL - Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France; Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia; Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel; The Saatchi Collection, UK; The Harvard Business School, USA; The National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, USA and Missoni Collection, Italy.