MELAMID Alexander

Information

• Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid were born in Moscow, Komar on September 11, 1943 and Melamid on July 14, 1945. Both artists attended the Moscow Art School from 1958 to 1960, and the Stroganov Institute of Art & Design, Moscow, from 1962 to 1967. Their collaborative work started in 1965, and in 1967, they initiated the SOTS Art movement (the Soviet version of Western Pop Art).
• Since 1976, they have had numerous public commissions and exhibitions throughout the world. In 1978, Komar & Melamid became United States residents. Notorious dissidents before they left the Soviet Union, the artists have since been called “exasperating expatriates” for their travesties of Socialist Realism.

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