“The tension between contemplation and participation underlies the work of the Moscow-born and New York-based Yevgeniy Fiks, who addresses the history and current cultural status of Soviet Communism in his paintings, photographs, and conceptual works.

—Olga Kopenkina, Modern Painters, May 2008

Adopt Lenin

Artist’s Website

resume (pdf)

Exhibitions

Yevgeniy Fiks (2013)

Corporations Are People Too (2012)

Yevgeniy Fiks (2010)

Things Fall Apart (2009)

Yevgeniy Fiks (2008)

Publications

Yevgeniy Fiks "Lenin for Your Library?"

Yevgeniy Fiks, "Communist Guide to New York City"

"Moscow: Yevgeniy Fiks", 2013

Selected Bibliography

"Bookforum talks to Yevgeniy Fiks," by Vladislav Davidzon, "Bookforum," May 6, 2013

Евгений Аронов, "Неблагонадежная любовь," Радио Свобода, 11 апреля 2013

Zach Savich, "April Reviews: Jena Osman; Yevgeniy Fiks," The Kenyon Review, April 2, 2013

"Gay in the USSR," by Nora Fitzgerald, Foreign Policy, March 26, 2013

"An Artist Asks, How Swishy Was Karl Marx?," by Blake Gopnik, The Daily Pic, March 26, 2013

"The Modern Art Notes Podcast." by Tyler Green, Modern Art Notes, March 21, 2013

"The Queer Bombs of the Cold War," by: Ivan Savvine on Wednesday, OutThere, March 20, 2013

"In Sight/In Mind: Yevgeniy Fiks," by Kathleen MacQueen, Shifting Connections, March 14, 2013

Sophie Pinkham, "The Homosexual Atom Bomb," n+1, February 25, 2013

Hrag Vartanian, "Did the Cold War End?," Hyperallergic, August 3, 2012

Vladislav Davidzon, "Yevgeniy Fiks, Galerie Sator," Modern Painters, May 2012

John Haber, "Abstraction and Silence," Haber Arts, April 9, 2012

Mark Jenkins, "Making Begonias Oppressively Brutish," Washington Post, April 6, 2012

David Marcus, "It's the Political Economy, Stupid," Art in America, March 28, 2012

Caroline A. Miranda, "Seeing Red at MoMA," ARTNews, February 2012

Dan Tarnowski, "Corporations are People Too @ Winkleman Gallery," WhiteHot Magazine, January 2012

Emily Nathan, "THE NEW YORK LIST 1/9/2012," Artnet.com, January 9, 2012

Noah Dillon, "Taking the Corps Out of Corporation," ArtSlant, January 9, 2012

Kathleen Massara, "Are Corporations People? Winkleman Gallery Weighs In," Huffington Post, January 4, 2012

Carolina A. Miranda, " This Week: Must-See Arts in the City," WNYC's Arts Datebook, January 4, 2012

Kristen Chappa, "The Workers," Frieze Magazine, Issue 143 November-December 2011

"De-fetishizing Lenin Kitsch," by Sydney, Thing Theory, February 3, 2009

Miguel Amado, Artforum Critics' Picks, September 26, 2010

Michael Harvey, Art in America, January 2009

Paddy Johnson, "Yevgeniy Fiks at Winkleman Gallery," artfagcity.com, October 2, 2008

Catherine Spaeth, "All in One Day: The Gallery Give-Away in Changing Economies," catherinesarttours.blogspot.com, September 29, 2008

Daniel Larkin, "The Russian Soldier," ArtCal Zine, September 19, 2008

Colby Chamberlain, "Critics' Picks, Yevgeniy Fiks," artforum.com, 9/16/08

Yaelle Amir , "Lenin Re-Commodified," ArtSlant New York, www.artslant.com/ny/, 9/14/08

Olga Kopenkina, Modern Painters Page 2, May 2008

Olga Kopenkina, Modern Painters Page 3, May 2008

Olga Kopenkina, Modern Painters Page 1, May 2008

Yevgeniy Fiks

Joe-1 Cruising in Washington, DC

Joe-1 Cruising in Washington, DC

Stalin's Atom Bomb a.k.a. Homosexuality

Stalin's Atom Bomb a.k.a. Homosexuality

Communist Tour of MoMA

Communist Tour of MoMA

Ayn Rand in Illustrations

Ayn Rand in Illustrations

Communist Party USA Series

Communist Party USA Series

Songs of Russia Series

Songs of Russia Series

Lenin for Your Library?

Lenin for Your Library?

The Security Risk Map of Manhattan

The Security Risk Map of Manhattan, 2012

Adopt Lenin (installation view)

Adopt Lenin (installation view), 2009


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