Leonid Lerman — Biography



1953 Born

 

 1953        
Born in Odessa, USSR

1965-1969        
Attends Odessa School of Art

1970-1971        
Attends Professional School of Mosaics and Wood Carving, Odessa

1979        
Receives M.F.A. from V.I. Mukhina College of Art & Design, Leningrad, USSR

1980        
Emigrates to the United States

1981        
Receives James Wilburt Johnson Sculpture Award, Washington, D.C.
Lives and works in New York, NY


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1985  
C.A.S.E. Museum of Russian Contemporary Art, Jersey City, NJ

1986      
Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York

1987  
Tradition 3 Thousand Gallery, New York

1988  
On the Edge, Leonid Lerman, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC

1989   
Riskin-Sinow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sculpture Center Gallery, New York

1993       
McKee Gallery, New York

1994       
Complex Presentiment, Modernism, San Francisco
Landscape of a Victory, McKee Gallery, New York

1999       
Shape of Night, McKee Gallery

2002       
Rochini Arte Contemporanea, Terni, Italy

2003  
The Last Man, McKee Gallery

2005   
Leonid Lerman, Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA

2006       
New Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1978       
Menage Exhibition Hall, Leningrad

1982  
Centre des Congres de Quebec, Canada

1983       
Terminal, New York, Brooklyn, New York

1984       
Sculpture Center Gallery
Paulo Salvador Gallery
"Now" 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, Jersey City, NJ
"13 Hour Gallery," New York
Sculpture Center Gallery

1986  
Gallery International 52, New York
No-Se-No Gallery, New York

1987       
City Gallery, New York
Krain Club Gallery, New York
Kenkeleba Gallery, New York

1988 
Res Nova Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1989-1990  
Transit:  Russian Artists Between the East and West, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, New York

1990       
State Russian Museum, Leningrad
Trietiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Drawing Center, New York

1993   
Monumental Propaganda, Courtyard Gallery, World Financial Center, New York

1993-1994       
Old Symbols / New Icons in Russian Contemporary Art, Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York

1994       
Ideal Landscapes:  Artists from the Former Soviet Union, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA

1995       
Heroes and Heroines:  From Myth to Reality, New Jersey Center  for Visual Arts, NJ
5 + 5, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York
Prospekts:  Contemporary Russian Art from New York, Chase Manhattan Bank, SoHo branch, New York

1998 
The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Shaping Space: Drawings by Six Contemporary Sculptors, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, FL
Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York
Faculty Show, Sculpture Center School, New York

1999       
Red Square, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, New York

1999-2000       
Manifestations of the Human Spirit, Joshua Lowenfels, The Baldacchino, New York

2000       
Group Show, McKee Gallery, New York
Christopher Wilmarth and Leonid Lerman: from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Audrey Jones Beck Building,  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2001  
A Private Reading:  The Book As Image & Object, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York

2002       
National Academy of Design Museum, New York

2004 
Drawing Today, New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT

2005       
Sculpture: An Intuitive View, McKee Gallery, New York
Twentieth Century Sculptors of Russian and Eastern European Origin, Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York

2006         
Collage in Russia, 20th Century, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersberg

2007         
Small Bodies, McKee Gallery, New York


SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

Ileana Suarez, The Dispatch (Hudson/Bergen Counties, NJ), November 8, 1984.
Naomi Kenan, The Jersey Journal, November 1, 1985.
Roger Green, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, March 6, 1988.
Max Halperen, Leader Magazine, September 15, 1988.
Henry Vermillion, The Spectator, September 15 - 21, 1988.
Max Halperen, The Arts Journal, October 1988.
Dennis Szakacs, The Independent Source, September 22 - October 5, 1988.
Kollias Juna, The Chronicle, September 8, 1988.
Phyllis Braff, The New York Times, November 19, 1989.
Karen Wilkin, "At the Galleries,"  Partisan Review, Spring 1993.
JoAnne Milani, “Quality's the theme in collector's show,” The Tampa Tribune, Baylife, The Arts, Final 10, May 24, 1998.
"Body Types," New York Magazine, August 3, 1998.
"Leonid Lerman," Art Korea, April 1998.
Deborah Everett, NY Arts, vol. 4, no. 3, 1999.
Ken Johnson, "Leonid Lerman," The New York Times, March 26, 1999.
Ken Johnson, "Leonid Lerman," The New York Times Weekend, March 26, 1999.
Nancy Princenthal,  "Leonid Lerman at McKee," Art in America, September 1999.
Lance Esplund, "The More the Merrier,"  Modern Painters, Winter 1999.
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.
Ron Schira, "Creating a Language for One's Art," Reading Eagle, Sunday, January 23, 2005.
"A Visit to Leonid Lerman's Studio," Logos, [web page]; http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_4.1
/lerman.htm [Accessed, March 31, 2005].
Jonathan Gilmore “Leonid Lerman at McKee,” Art in America, April 2007.