Oleg Tselkov (1934-2021) studied at the Moscow Middle Art School for gifted children. He spent a year at the Minsk Art Institute and another year at the Repin Academy of Arts in Leningrad, expelled from both for ideological reasons. In 198 he graduated from Leningrad Institute of Theatre and Film with diploma in as a theater artist and technologist. Tselkov didn’t take part neither in Bulldozer Exhibition nor in the following Izmailovo Exhibition as he considered it impossible to conduct a dialog with the government.
The first personal exhibition took place in the Institute of Nuclear Energy in Moscow in 1965. During the next years there were 17 different exhibition projects organised in the USA, England, France. In 2004 his personal exhibition held in the State Russian Museum in Saint-Petersburg and State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
COLLECTIONS:
-Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Netherlands
-Ulster Museum, Belfast, Great Britain
-Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, USA
-Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University,New Brunswick, USA
-Kolodzei Art Foundation, New Jersey, USA
-Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
-Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
-State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow, Russia
-State Russian museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
- The Pushkin State museum of fine arts, Moscow, Russia
- Moscow museum of modeern art, Moscow, Russia
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