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.
Works
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
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