Born in 1961 in Moscow, Igor Moukhin is the Russain photographer with international reputation. It is in 1987 when « Young Soviets », his first solo exhibition revealed his photographs to the large public. Since then, he has been participationg in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, and his prints are present in the important public and private collections.
Represented by Liza Fetissova Gallery (ex-Russiantearoom gallery) since 2013.
COLLECTIONS:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Fonds National d’Art Contemporian (FNAC), Paris
The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
The Adams Center for Photographic Research & Study in Manchester, New Hampshire Institute of Art, USA
Harry Ransom Humanities research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, USA
The Equity International Photography Collection in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, USA
The Baltimore Museum of Art. Maryland, USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, USA
The Navigator Foundation, Boston, USA
«La collezione di Fotografia Europea», della Biblioteca Panizzi di Reggio Emilia. Italia
The State Tretyakov Gallery
The Museum Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art
National Centre for Contemporary Arts(NCCA), Moscow
National Centre for Contemporary Arts(NCCA), Nizhni Novgorod
A.V.Shсhusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow
Moscow History Museum , Moscow
Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
Victor Barsokevitch Photographic Center, Kuopio
Wien Museum, Vienna
Bank UBS Collection And private collections
Solo exhibitions
2018-2019
"Our 1990s. Time for a change", Yeltsin Center, Ekaterinburg, Russia
"I've Seen Rock'n'Roll", Kaunas Photography Gallery, Lithuania
2017 "80. Alternative culture", Gallery Neglinny, Moscow, Russia
"TERM / TERM", XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
"Igor Mukhin - Alternative Culture 80's", Festival of Fashion and Style in Photography, Moscow Multimedia Art museum, Moscow, Russia
2016 "I've seen rock-and-roll," State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSPHOTO, St. Petersburg, Russia
2015 "MOSKVA_2. La Bohème", Luda Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 Igor Mukhin "Punk Fraction 1",Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2013 «My Moscow». Carré Amelot, La Rochelle, France
Igor Moukhin, "La mia Mosca", Laura Bulian Gallery, Milan, Italy
Igor Moukhin, "My Moscow", Galerie RTR, Paris, France
Rétrospective "La Russie Age d'Igor Moukhin, photographies de 1987 à 2012", Le Kremlin-Bicètre, France
2012 "PROGOROD. Krasnogorsk district", Krasnogorsk Mechanical Plant, Krasnogorsk, Russia
"My Moscow", Meglinskaya Gallery, Moscow
"La mia Mosca", San Pietro Cloisters, Fotografia Europea Festival 2012, Reggio Emilia, Italy
"Rosja / Polska", Galeria Wysokich Napięć, 4 Festiwal Fotodokumentu, Warsaw, Poland
"Accomplices", XL Gallery, Moscow
2010 "Igor Mukhin. E difficile essere giovani", Galleria Impronte contemporary Art, Milano, Italy
"Kitchen garden ", Meglinskaya Gallery, Moscow, Moscow
"Igor Moukhin. Resistance ", XL Gallery, Moscow
2008 "Igor Moukhin", Stockholmsmessan, Stockholm, Sweden
"Igor Mukhin", Foundation for Promotion of Arts Development, Kiev, Ukraine
"Igor Moukhin", CM ART Gallery, Paris, France
"Igor Moukhin ", Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2005 "Journey" Photo Capture, "Fashion and Style in photography Festival, Moscow, Russia
2004 "I.Moukhin. Contemporary Russian Photography", The Camera Obskura Gallery, Denver, USA
"I.Moukhin: Visions of Contemporary Russia", Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
"Province. Nizhny Novgorod vacations, Simbirsk photography museum, Ulyanovsk
"Province. Nizhny Novgorod vacations", NCC Exhibition Complex, Dimitrovgrad
"Generation next", Auditorium parco della musica, Rome, Italy
"Heavy breath of winter", XL Gallery, Moscow
2003 "Moscow - Paris ", The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
"Contemporary Moscow Photography ", Anahita Gallery, Santa Fe, USA
"Wien - Moscow ", Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
"Moskauer Jugent im 3. Jahrtausent ", Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, Germany
2002 "Moscow - Paris", Moscow House of Photography
"Nizhny Novgorod. Summer 2001 ", Pro-Vision festival, Nizhny Novgorod
"Province. Nizhny Novgorod vacations », XL Gallery, Moscow
2001 "Moscow Light ", Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow
2000 "La jeunesse à Paris", Mois de la photo, Galerie Carre Noir, Paris, France
1999 "Nonstop", XL Gallery, Moscow
"Igor Moukhin", Galerie Carre Noir, Paris, France
"Girls", XL Gallery, Moscow
1998 "Youth in the City" (Biennale - 98), Manege, Moscow
"Moscou la Jeune", Bibliothèque Elsa Triolet, Pantin, France
"Moscou", MJC du Laü, Pau, France
1997 "Moskva Moskva ", Slepenais eksperiments, Riga, Latvia
"Soviet Epoch: Benches and Monuments». Photohouse, Riga, Latvia
"Transitions". German Cultural Center. Goethe, Moscow
"V. Siomin & I. Moukhin: contemporary Russian photography », Camera Obskura Gallery. Denver, USA
"Moscow: the City and the People», LEK. Ljublijana, Slovenia
"Igor Moukhin ", Galeria Gerulata, Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
1996 "Life in the City ", Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Latvia
"The changing landscape ", Kuznetsky Most Artist's House, Moscow
1995 "Igor Mukhin. 40 pictures ", Revolution Museum, Moscow
"Vision of Russia", Naarden Fotofestival, Netherlands
1994 "Benches: Transformation for the Future", XL Gallery, Moscow
1993 "The Soviet monumental art ", Photo gallery, Yoshkar-Ola, USSR
1990 "I.Mukhin ". Photo, Gallery, Leningrad, USSR
1989 "I.Mukhin", Reporters, photo-club Ukhta, USSR
"I.Mukhin", photo Gallery, Kuibyshev, USSR
1988
"I.Mukhin", The Uralmash Palace of Culture, Metal-plastic Rock Festival, Sverdlovsk, USSR
1987
"The young of the young, Palace of Culture of the Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR
Group exhibitions
2017 "Subjective Objective: A Century of Social Photography», Art Zimmerli Museum, The State University of New Jersey, USA
"Moscow. Illumination. 1896-2003" Moscow Multimedia Part Museum, Moscow
"15 years. Open Collection", ROSPHOTO. St. Petersburg
"Red Horizon - Contemporary Photography Art in the USSR and Russia, 1960 - 2010", The Columbus Museum of Art, USA
2016 "Encyclopedia of photographs (1891-1991)", Electronics Pavilion, ENEA, Moscow
"Football - Hockey", Winzavod, Moscow
"Contemporary Art: 1960-2000. Reset", State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
"The evolution of sight. 1991-2016", Biennale 2016, Manege, Moscow
2015 "90s", Yeltsin Center. Ekaterinburg, Ekaterinburg, Russia
"New Arrivals: The Late 20Th - Century Photographs from Russia & Belarus», The Baltimore Museum of Art, USA
"Our Land / Alien Territory", 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Manege, Moscow
"Hope", Trekhgorny manufacture, 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
"The Russian House », Schilt Publishing Gallery, Amsterdam
"Pussy Riot and the cossacks. Russian Tradition of Resistance", Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Besançon, France
"Museum of the predictions", MMOMA, Moscow
2014 "Summer Time ", Galerie RTR, Paris, France
"Pussy Riot and the cossacks. Russian Tradition of Resistance ", Havremagasinet Art Center, Boden, Sweden
"With what starts a homeland?", Museum of Moscow, Russia
"2.0 " exhibition from the collections of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Multimedia, Moscow
2013 "Reconstructions", Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, The 5th Moscow Biennale of contemporary аrt
"Beauty without glamour ?", Musée Russe, Saint Petersburg
"Changing Focus — A Collection of Russian and Eastern European Contemporary Photography», New Manege, Moscou
"Pussy Riot and the Russian Tradition of Аrt Rebellion", MeetFactory Gallery, Prague
"Body. Revealed", RTR gallery, Paris, France
2012 "I am who I am", KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Alertes! Soutenez les Pussy Riot...", Palais de Tokyo, Paris
"In a Complete Disorder. Contemporary Russian Art", The Kandinsky Prize (2007–2012), Barcelona, Spain
"Monuments and Documents," State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
"Perestroika Liberalization and Experimentation(mid/late 1980s–2010s)", Winter Street Studios, FotoFest 2012 Biennial, Houston, Texas, USA
"For Fair Elections", Paperworks Gallery, Moscow, Russia
"Underground: Russian Photography 1970s-1980s", Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York
2011 "Seeing Through a Glass Darkly", Whitespace Gallery, London
"Hostages of Voids", Aesthetics of Empty Space in Russian art during XIX–XXIth centuries, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
"FotoSkulptur. Die Fotografie der Skulptur 1839 bis heute", Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
2010 "Les Russes ! Portrait phorographique russe. 1970-2010", Orel Art Gallery, Paris
"Paris/Moscou/Photographies", Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France
"The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today",The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Photographie de la nouvelle Russie 1990-2010", Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
"Moscow–Paris", Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2009 "New Old Cold War », Red October, Moscow
"Etre jeune en France / Ser jovem na Franca», Galeria 3, Rio de Janeiro, travelling Galeria Humberto Betetto, Sao Paulo, Galeria Vitrine, Brasil
2008 "Frictions and conflicts - cultural influences and exchange in Northeast Europe", Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden
"The Young ones/Le plus Bel Age", Bruxelles
2007 "Sots Art. Political Art in Russia from 1972 to today", La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
"Russian Vision of Europe", Galeria Torreao Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal
2006 "Photography from the collection", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2005 "The Russian vision on Europe", Le Centre d'Art de Rouge-Cloitre, Brussels
"Street, Art and Fashion", FotoMuseum, Antwerpen, Belgium
2004 "Beyond Memory: Soviet nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art", The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli, Art Museum, Rutgers, USA
"Russische fotografie 1920-2000. Moskau in Bildern", Innsbucker Stadtarchiv, Stadt Museum, Austria
2003 "Fotografien aus dem Neuen Russland 1991-2003», FFF - Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany
"Moscow: Paradise", Galerie der Stadt Wels, Wels, Austria
"Russian Photography — Retrospective", The Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
"Moscow City", M&I Wallach Art Gallary, Columbia University, New York, USA
2001 "Moscow: Paradise", Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna; travelling Salzburg, Austria
"5×5 = 25", Galerie Gmurzynska, Koln, Germany
"Davai! Russian Art now", Postfuhramt, Berlin; travelling MAK, Vienna, Austria
"Photographic Idea: After Modernism", Museum of Fine Arts, New Mexico, USA
2000 "Regards Croises. Russie-Provence", Aix-en-Provence, France
"The Russian Image", SK Josephberg Studio, Portland, USA
1999 "After the wall", Moderna Museet, Stockholm; travelling The Ludwig Museum, Budapest; National Galleries im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
5 Internationale Fototage Herten, Herten, Germany
"Aufbruch. Die neue russische Fotografie", Vestisches Museum Recklinghausen, Germany
1998 "Photography from the collection", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Skulptur im Licht der Fotografie", Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg Europaisches Zentrum moderner Skulptur; travelling Musee d'art et d'historie, Fribourg; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
"Aufdruch. Die neue russishe Fotografie", Erholungshaus der Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany
1997 "From the collection", Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
"The Russian Image", G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
3rd Biennale of Contemporary Art, Cetine, Montenegro
"Russia: Chronicles of Change", Washington Center for Photography, Washington D. C., USA
1996 "From the Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Photography", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D. C., USA
"Russia: Chronicles of Change", Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach
"Biennale of International Photography", Photographis Center of Skopelos, Greece
"Renewal and Metamorfosis. Russian Photographers from the Late Soviet Era to the 1990s", MIT Museum; travelling Fitsburg Art Museum, USA
1995 "Russian Photography", Museum of Art, Tampa, USA
"Kunst im verborgenen. Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995", Collection of соntemporary art of Tsaritsino Museum. Wilhelm-Hack Museum, travelling Ludwigshafen-am-Rhein; Documenta-Halle, Каssel; Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Аltenburg, Germany
"Night over Asia", The Swedish Exhibition Centre, Goteborg, Sweden
"Werkstatt Moskau", (Zeitgenossische Russische Fotokunst), Akademie der Kunste im Marstall, Berlin, Germany
1994-95 "Neue Fotokunst aus Russland", Badischer Kunstverein, Carlsruhe; travelling Galerie im Karmelitenkloster, Frankfurt-am-Main; Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover; Museum Volk und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Hertener Fototage, Herten, Germany
1994 "Monuments and Memory: Reflections on the Former Soviet Union", The Gallery of Sacred Heart University; Fairfield and Akus Gallery; Easter Connecticut State University, travelling Willimantic, Connecticut, USA
1993 "Моnuments: Transformation for the Future", Institute of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
"A la recherche du père", Espace Photographique de Paris, Paris, France
1992 "Première photographie", Gallery du Jour, Paris, France
"2. International Foto-Triennale. Erfundene Wirklichkeiten", Esslingen, Germany
"Experiences Photographiques Russes", L'Atrium de Grand Ecran (Mois de la Photo a Paris 1992), France
"Litza. Contemporary Portrait Photography from Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine", CIRC Foundation, Аmsterdam, Netherlands
"Aktuelle Kunst und Fotografie aus Moskau", Albecht Gallery, Munich, Germany
1991 "Russie-USSR 1914-1991", Changements de regards, Paris, France
"Changing Reality", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D. C., USA
"Photo Manifesto", Museum for Contemporary Arts, Baltimore, USA
"Looking East", Image Gallery, Ааrchus, Denmark
1988-89 "Smile, please!". Galerie Comptoir de la Photographie(Mois de la Photo a Paris 1988), Paris, France; travelling Portfolio Gallery, London; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
1988 "Соntemporary Soviet Photography", Stockholm, Sweden
"Соntemporary Soviet Photography", Мuseum of Photography, Odense, Denmark
BOOKS
2019 - Igor Mukhin "Nineties", Russia
2018 - Igor Mukhin "In the middle of monumental propaganda" , Treemedia, Moscow
2017 - Igor Mukhin "The Just a pie in the sky" ( Yeltsin Years 1991 - 1999), Bergger éditions, Paris
2017 - Igor Mukhin "Weekend", Treemedia, Moscow
2017 - Igor Mukhin "Spy of future. Diary", Samizdat, Moscow
2017 - Igor Mukhin "Calculation", Treemedia, Moscow
2016 - Igor Mukhin "Born in the USSR", 2nd edition. Treemedia, Moscow
2016 - Igor Mukhin "I saw rock-n-roll", Treemedia. Moscow
2015 - Igor Mukhin "MOSKVA_2. La Bohème", Samizdat, Moscow
2015 - Igor Mukhin "Resistance. In the Translation of Lost", Samizdat, Moscow
2015 - Igor Mukhin "Weekend", Samizdat, Moscow
2012 - Christian Gattinoni «Igor Moukhin. Photographies 1987 - 2011", Éditions Loco, Paris
2012 - "My Moscow", Schilt Publishing
2012 - Igor Mukhin "Mein Moskau: Fotografien 1985-2010", Benteli Verlags Ag
2012 - Igor Mukhin "My Moscow", Treemedia, Moscow
2005 - I.Mukhin "Born in USSR, Leonid Gusev Publishing, Moscow
1998 - I.Moukhine "Avoir 20 ans a Moscou", Editions Alternatives, Paris