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Alexander Melamid

Alexander Melamid (Born 1945) is active/lives in New York, New Jersey / Russian Federation.  Alexander Melamid is known for Collage, graphics, mixed media, mural and figure painting.

Emigrating in 1977 with Vitaly Komar from the Soviet Union, via Israel to New York City, Alexander Melamid, a graduate of Stroganov Art Institute in Moscow, is known as a cynical social realist.  Since the early 1970s until 2003, he has been part of a long-time collaboration known as SotsArt with Vitaly Komar.  Shockingly non-conforming at its inception in Russia, it combined Western styles of Pop Art and Social Realism and included methods of performance, photography, installation, music and poetry.  Of working together, they said:  "Even if only one of us creates some of the projects and works, we usually sign them together. We are not just an artist, we are a movement."

In 1976, a New York gallery hosted their first international exhibition, but the Russian government would not give them exit visas.  During this time both Melamid and Komar worked in a style they called 'Post Art', using multiple styles in their images.   "In one performanc   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2440 characters.]  Artist bio

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Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, 2007

Alexander Melamid

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