Curriculum Vitae
1974 Born in Kemerovo, Siberia, Russia
1995 Exiled from Russia and granted political asylum in the U.S.; moved to New York City
2004 Together with Brian Kenny formed SUPERM, a multimedia art team
2011 Became a U.S. citizen
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Intimate Portraits, The Impossible Project, NYC (with Maripol)
Take Five, Lomography Gallery Store, NYC
2012
BEAUTY and HELL, envoy enterprises, NYC (SUPERM)
2011
Suddenly Last Summer, AS IF Gallery, NYC
2010
Lost Boys, La Fresh Gallery, Madrid (traveling exhibition)
2009
Food Chain, envoy enterprises, NYC
Lost Boys, Galeria Pauza, Krakow, Poland; and Galerie Terre Rouge, Kulturfabrik, Esch, Luxembourg (traveling exhibition)
2008
White Is Dirty When Ugly, envoy enterprises, NYC (SUPERM)
SPUTNIK 3, Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway (SUPERM + Gio Black Peter)
2007
Slava Mogutin and Justin Beal, Bortolami Gallery, NYC
But Her Majesty’s Roastbeef Curtains Wouldn’t Open For Him, Blow de la Barra Gallery, London (SUPERM)
2006
Slava Mogutin: Photography and Video, Allmänna Galleriet 925, Stockholm
2005
Wiggers in Berlin (SUPERM), Galerie Deschler, Berlin
Белый Негр (Wigger) (SUPERM), Regina Gallery, Moscow
2004
No Love, RARE Gallery, NYC
2003
Lost Boys, RARE Gallery, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
L'ère vulgaire passera, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris; curated by Patrik Schedler (upcoming)
Corps et Histoire, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France (upcoming)
FACELESS part 1, freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL, Museums Quartier, Vienna; curated by Bogomir Doringer<
Making Waves, Daniel Cooney Fine Arts, NY
Boy! Oh, boy! Casa de Costa, NYC; curated by Jason Costa and Josh McNey
I See Rainbows, -kunstplass 5, Oslo, Norway; curated by Bjørn Hatterud (catalog)
Queerussia: the hidden (p)art, Galerie MooiMan, Groningen, The Netherlands
Polari, True Love Gallery, Seattle, WA; curated by Steven Miller
2012
Up Against It, Munch Gallery, NYC; curated by Billy Miller
Portrait of a Genration, The Hole, NYC; curated by Kathy Grayson (catalog)
For Personal Use, The Impossible Project, NYC; curated by East Village Boys (SUPERM)
Androméstico, La Fresh Gallery, Madrid; curated by Guillermo Espinosa
FG.Ft – Fad Gadget, Frank Tovey; envoy enterprises, NYC; curated by Jimi Dams (catalog)
2011
View of Outer Space from an Aquarium, Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Billy Miller.
Act Like You're Fine: A Study on Obsession, Vacant Gallery, Tokyo; curated by iO Tillett Wright
Qeering Sex, Human Resources, LA; curated by Kathryn Garcia and Sarvia Jasso
Surveying the Immigrant Experience, The LGBT Community Center, NYC; curated by Chris Hanway
My Spring Fling Turned Into My Summer Dream, Splatterpool Art Space, Brooklyn, NY; curated by j. morrison.
For Love Not Money, The 15th Tallinn Print Triennial, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia; curated by Eve Kask, Eha Komissarov, and Simon Rees (catalog)
2010
Altered Statehood (as SUPERM), Artists' Television Access, San Francisco; programmed by Billy Miller
POSTERMAT, The Hole, NYC; curated by Kathy Grayson
Una Gran Familia, La Fresh Gallery, Madrid
The Infidels, La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa, Canada; curated by Guy Berube
Streeple, Monat der Fotografie, Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Berlin; curated by Paulus Fugers (catalog)
Your Last Chance, The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY; curated by Billy Miller
50 Ways To Keep Your Lover, Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway
T MINUS 20, Christopher Henry Gallery, NYC; curated by Jason LeBlond and Ves Pitts
Because We Are, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas; curated by Tim Gonzalez (catalog)
2009
Summer Drunk Tank, City Art Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand; curated by Young Sun Han.
MAD Paperball, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC.
Love For Sale, The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY; curated by Billy Miller.
Lyst (Lust), Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; curated by Tomas Lagermand Lundme and Mathias Kryger.
Don’t Worry It’s Only Money, City Art Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand; curated by Young Sun Han.
Turn On, Slag Gallery, NYC; curated by Özkan Cangüven.
Screwball Asses, The Company Gallery, Los Angeles; curated by Hedi El Kholti and David Jones.
Get a Rope, CTRL Gallery, Houston, Texas; curated by Kathy Grayson.
History of Violence (as SUPERM), The Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; curated by Hadas Maor (catalog).
2008
It Ain’t Fair, O.H.W.O.W., The Art Basel Miami satellite group show curated by Tim Barber, Kathy Grayson, Andreas Melas, Dan Nadel, Pablo de la Barra, Nicola Vassell, and Terence Koh.
Ossuary: Works on paper collected by Alex Rose, The Black Mariah, Cork, Ireland.
I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl, ASS (Asia Song Society), NYC; curated by Anat Ebgi, Terence Koh, and Jenny Schlenzka (catalog).
Homoccult & Other Esoterotica, Collective Unconscious, NYC; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; curated by Daniel McKernan and Richie Rennt (SUPERM)
The Left Hand of Darkness, The Project, NYC; curated by Sarvia Jasso and Yasmine Dubois.
2007
BodyPoliticX, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; curated by Florian Waldvogel (catalog).
Love Addiction: Practices in Video Art from ’61 to the Present, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy; curated by Andrea Bruciati (catalog).
The Male Gaze, The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Nicholas Weist.
The Brotherhood, Neon Parc, Melbourne, and Australian Centre for Photography (ACP), Sydney; curated by Shannon Michael Cane.
2006
No Sleep ’til Brooklyn: A powerHouse Hip Hop Retrospective, The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Sara Rosen.
Globos Sonda/Trial Balloons (as SUPERM), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain; curated by Octavio Zaya, Yuko Hasegawa, and Agustín Pérez Rubio (catalog).
Retro, Angell Gallery, Toronto; curated by Jamie Angell.
2005
With Us Against Reality, or Against Us! Willy Wonka Inc., Oslo, and Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway; curated by Ida Ekblad and Anders Nordby (catalog).
Log Cabin (as SUPERM), Artists Space, NYC; curated by Jeffrey Uslip.
Post-Diaspora: Voyages and Missions, 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art; curated by Olga Kopenkina (catalog).
2004
Phiiliip: Divided by Lightning, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, NY; curated by John Connelly.
BlackBook: 25 Artists Interpret Fashion, Deitch Projects, NYC; curated by BlackBook Magazine.
Sublime Audacity – The Stroller’s Experience, Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, and Maus Habitos, Porto, Portugal (catalog).
PREMAculTURE, PS1 School, Hydra Island, Greece; curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis (catalog).
The Collector’s Cabinet, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles; curated by Simon Watson/Scenic.
The Hunt For Your Family, V-1, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Odd Number, Stockholm, Sweden; curated by Loyal Magazine.
Sexy Beasts: An Exploration of Sex and Sexuality in Art from 1964 – Present, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, NYC; curated by Robert Knafo.
2003
Kult 48 Klubhouse, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Scott Hug.
Snapshot Now, Angell Gallery, Toronto; curated by Randy Gladman.
Kult 48, FIAC, Paris Expo; curated by Scott Hug.
What About New York? A New New York Scene, Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris; curated by Scott Hug.
Corporate Profits Vs. Labor Costs, Now Playing, D'Amelio Terras, NYC; curated by John Connelly.
Fox and His Friends: New Millennium Post-Gay Photography (With Fangs), Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh; curated by Edgar Um Bucholtz.
Angst, RARE Gallery, NYC; curated by Peter Surace.
2002
K48 Teenage Rebel – The Bedroom Show, John Connelly Presents, NYC; curated by Scott Hug
The Armory Photography Show, Javits Center, NYC.
Small Works, Mimi Ferzt Gallery, NYC; curated by Christine Sperber.
2001
The Muses, Leslie-Lohman Gallery, NYC; curated by Reed Massengill.
2000
Other Works, Regina Gallery, Moscow.
3rd Moscow Photo Biennale, Central House of Artists, Moscow; curated by Olga Sviblova (catalog).
SELECTED COLLABORATIONS AND PREFORMANCES
2012
BRUCE(X)PLOITATION (with Bruce LaBruce, Kembra Pfahler, Gio Black Peter, Brian Kenny, and Carter Harrington), The Hole, NYC.
2011
24 Days of Matter Printed, Printed Matter, Inc., NYC; curated by j. morrison.
2010
Vaginal Davis is Speaking From the Diaphragm (with Vaginal Davis), PS 122, NYC.
The Happening of Blind Sculpture (with Gelitin), Greene Naftali Gallery, NYC.
2009
Manpurse IV: Assembly Line, organized by j. morrison (with Scott Hug, Michael Magnan, Dave Ortega, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Dave Ulrich, and Grant Worth), The NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY.
Pornography Project (with Michael Magnan), BUTT IN ASS, A.S.S. (Asia Song Society), curated by BUTT Magazine.
Hygiene: A Piece of Instant Theater (with Brian Kenny), directed by Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich, produced by Maria Baibakova, Deitch Projects, NYC.
2008
Shaking Angles (with Andrey Bartenev and Brian Kenny), The National Arts Club, NYC.
2003
assume vivid astro focus VII (with assume vivid astro focus), Deitch Projects, NYC.
Anarchist Wrestling (with Bruce LaBruce), The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.
2002
The Ladder of Red (with Andrey Bartenev and Christopher Knowles), The Red Night: 9th Annual Watermill Benefit, Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, Southampton, Long Island, NY.
2001
Kabul Olympics (with Sergey Bratkov), Passage Gallery, Moscow.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2012
HELL (SUPERM), envoy enterprises, NY.
2009
Burning the Cadle at Both Ends, web gallery for Visual Aids (link).
2006
SUPERM Salon (SUPERM), Sundown Salon series, Fritz Haeg's studio, LA.