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Yuri Shabelnikov 
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Rupert Shrive 
Olga Tobreluts 
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Born in Cleveland in 1965, lives and works in New York City and Moscow

Education
1990-92 Stichting Ateliers 63, Haarlem, The Netherlands
1984-87 Syracuse University USA, B.F.A., Syracuse, New York
1986-87 Syracuse University, Florence, Italy.
1987 Skowhegan School of Painting/Sculpture, Maine


COLLABORATIONS

2010
Shortlisted for Cannes Golden Lions for Reporters Without Borders advertising campaign, together with Veronika Georgieva
Saatchi & Saatchi for Reporters Without Borders 25th anniversary advertising campaign, together with Veronika Georgieva
Comme des Garçons, Spring/Summer 2010 advertising campaign.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
Traveling Idiot, City Museum of Ljubljana, collaboration with Veronika Georgieva
Stephen j Shanabrook + Veronika Georgieva, Orel Art Gallery, Paris
Stephen j Shanabrook, Charlotte Moser Gallery, Geneva

2010
In Pills We Trust, Orel Art UK, London

2009
Liquid Lushes and Late Night House of Pills, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York.
Morgue Chocolate, project for Eternal Tour, Museum of Art and History, Neuchâtel.

2008
Autopsy of the moment and other flat gestures, Charlotte Moser Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Devil’s necklace, Orel Art Gallery, Paris
Licking your wounds, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York

2006
Hell & Back, XL Projects, Moscow, Russia
Hell & Back, Artstrelka Projects, Moscow, Russia

2003
Automat, Kubometer Gallery, Art Moscow, Russia

2002
MAF Amsterdam, De Schone Kunsten Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands

2001
Being wet, 31 Grand Gallery, New York City
Topographical Study of the Human Brain After a Gunshot Blast to the Mouth, De Schone
Kunsten Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands

1997
Wild East Wild West, De Praktijk Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mapping Out Narcotic Finger Movements, Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Kunst RAI Amsterdam, De Schone Kunsten Gallery, Haarlem The Netherlands

1996
Deformed Faces Club, De Schone Kunsten Gallery, Haarlem The Netherlands
Sleeping with Chocolate, installation for Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Unknown Resurrections, Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Restitution after the meeting of 13, New Planet Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
More (Than) Chocolate, Artslink Project, collaboration with Olga Chernysheva,
L-Gallery, Moscow Russia



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Monaism, inaugural exhibition, Museum of Old and New Art ( MONA), Tasmania

2010
Street Anatomy, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, USA
Bittersweet, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, USA
Obscure Desire, 1918ArtSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China
Chocolate A-Z, Gallery by the Harbour, Hong-Kong
New Culture Festival, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

2009
That's All, Folks! Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium
TSUMArt, TSUM Department Store, Moscow
ArtsLottery, CECArtslink, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
Children of Perestroika, parallel program 3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow
Bad News, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York
Summer Show, Orel Art, Paris
Fool's Food, CAN, Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Switzerland
The Aesthetics of Terror, Embedded Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

2008
Meat after Meat Joy, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York
Triptyque, Angers Festival France
Deadly Serious, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulouse, France
The Aesthetics of terror, Cam – Chelsea Art Museum, New York City
Holy Smoke!, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam
Speaking to the Unspeakable, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Art Brussels, Charlotte Moser Gallery, Brussels
Art Mexico, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, Mexico


2007
Love is in The Air, EXPRMNTL Gallery, Toulouse, France
It’s not a Food, Curator Olga Loupokhova, Era Fondation, Moscow, Russia
East/West, Orel Art Gallery, Paris, France
Stranger Than Paradise, curated by Max Henry, Charlotte Moser Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
SWAB art fair, Orel Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Red Shift Festival, curated by Alina Bliumis, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Toutes les couleurs sont autorisées à condition que cela n’empêche pas le commerce, curated by Claude Briand-Picard and Antoine Perrot, Atelier 340 Muzeum, Brussels, Belgium
Images Festival, curated by Pablo de Ocampo, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2006
Common Destination, curated by Katherine Carl, The Drawing Center, NYC
Rembrandt: Death, Dissection & Doctors, curated by Kees Maas, Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Blessed are the Merciful, curated by Jerome Jacobs, Feigen Contemporary, NYC
Artists and Arms, Center for Contemporary Art "Laznia", Gdansk, Poland

2005
Oracle of Truth, curated by Jerome Jacobs, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belguim
Artists and Arms, Contemporary Art Center MARS, Moscow, Russia
Boost in the Shell, curated by Jerome Jacobs, De Bond, Bruges, Belguim
Accomplices, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Biennale, Russia
Art on Wheels, ArtStrelka, Moscow, Russia

2004
Flipside, curated by Katherine Carl, collaboration with Jury Leiderman & Vadim Fishkin, Artslink Project, Artists Space, New York City
Should I Stay or Should I Go?, De Schone Kunsten Galerie, Haarlem The Netherlands
Art Kljasma, Contemporary Art Festival, curated by Vladimir Dubossarsky, Moscow,
Russia
Artists and Arms, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Nizhny Tagil/
Kaliningrad, Russia
Art Moscow, Kubometer Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Eat It!, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany

2003
Art Kljasma, Contemporary Art Festival, Moscow, Russia
Gun and Wound, curated by Alison Meehan, White Box, Annex, New York City, USA

2002
plek voor blanco, De Schone Kunsten Galerie, Haarlem The Netherlands
100% of Vision, curated by Anatoly Osmolovsky, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Melioration, Contemporary Art Festival, Moscow, Russia
Dead or Alive, curated by Suncica Ostoic & Olga Majcen, Art Festival, Zavod k6/4,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Unpacked no. 4, New York City
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Low Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Sweets, New York City, USA

2001
Dining Haul: Truck Set for Twelve, New York City USA
Workspheres, Museum of Modern Art, collaboration with Veronika Georgieva, New
York City
White Lights, Grote Markt, Haarlem ,The Netherlands

2000
Downtown Arts Festival, New York City, USA
Stations, Nieuwe Markt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Art Concern, De Schone Kunsten Galerie, Haarlem, The Netherlands

1999
Paradise 8, curated by Dominique Nahas, Exit Art, New York City, USA
Chocolate, Sotheby’s Mezzanine Gallery, London, England

1998
Chocolate, Rochdale Museum, Scotland
Chocolate, Summerlee Heritage Centre, Coatbridge, Scotland
Chocolate, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

1997
A Natural Selection, Z Gallery, New York City, USA
"Wat af is, is niet gemaakt", De Utrechtse School Utrecht The Netherlands

1996
Proud Flesh, De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands
The Invisible Purpose, Wax Museum, Moscow, Russia

1995
Chocolate! , curated by Carin Kuoni & Ingrid Schaffner, The Swiss Institute, New York
City
Northern Voices: N-Brow Traveling Medicine Show, AS 220, Providence Rhode Island,
USA
Culture, Water and Money, the Passion of the Frontier, collaboration with Susan Rees,
River Pierce Foundation, SanYgnacio, Texas USA
Unbelievable, Rex Cinema, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1994
Exchange/Datsja, Collaboration between Russian & Dutch artists, Amsterdam
Consuming Passions: Food, Art, Culture, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center,
Buffalo, USA
Artists’ Congress, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams

1993
Exchange Moscow, curated by Suzanne Oxenaar & Vincent de Boer, Moscow, Russia
catalog is avalaible


PERFORMANCES

2004
Breakfast of the absent tourist, performed by Michael Leykin, ArtStrelka, Moscow,
Russia
2002
Sleeping leg, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2001
bird'shit, rain and landscape, 31 Grand Gallery, New York City USA

2000
Bandaged, Downtown Arts Festival, New York City, USA
1999
Clean Puddle, communal house Moscow, Russia
Explaining Painting to the Dead Boys, Exit Art/The First World, New York City, USA
1997
Accurate - Puncture, De Praktijk Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996
Three balls of flesh, (chocolate eggs) L Gallery Moscow, Russia
1995
Bandaged, (cotton candy machine) City Square SanYgnacio, Texas, USA
Animal fall, (chocolate tooth launch) Haarlem, The Netherlandss
1994
The measurable loss of water during a bird’s flight, Flevoland, The Netherlands
1993
Stippelbeen, (cane with green chalk), various city streets Moscow city center, Russia
Snowshoes, (snowshoes with flour), various city streets Moscow city center, Russia

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS:

2004 Travelling Bullet Project, commission from CEC International, USA
1992-1998 Stichting Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunsten,The Netherlands.
1995 ArtsLink Grant for Moscow, Russia, Citizen Exchange Council, USA.
1993 Stichting Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunsten, presentation grant Russia


PERMANENT PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS:

2001 The Orbitor's Chair, BovenIj Ziekenhuis, Amsterdam,The Netherlands.
1999 The Spoken Word Through Water & Time, Dr. Sarphatihuis Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


COLLECTIONS

MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania
Damien Hirst’s “ Murder Me” collection, London
Trust for Mutual Understandings, New York
Rabus Collection, Neuchatel, Belguim
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
Mars Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, USA
Private Collections in Europe, USA, Russia and Australia