Background
Sokov was born in Mikhalevo in the Tver region, Russia in 1941 and graduated from the Stroganov Institute now called the Moscow School of Art and Industry, in 1969.
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Leonid Sokov
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Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry.
Career
He lives and works in New York City. He emigrated to the United States in 1980. He is closely related to the Sots art movement and he has worked with others in that genre including Dmitry Prigov, Alexander Kosolapov, and Rostislav Lebedev.
In 2001 he represented Russia at the Venice Biennale.
He participated in the 2004 Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, South of Korea. In 2012, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA) honored the artist"s 70th birthday with a major retrospective and publication on the artist"s career and work.
The State Russian Museum, Saint St. Petersburg, Russia
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The State Hermitage Museum, Saint St. Petersburg, Russia
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA), Moscow, Russia
The National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
The ART4.RU Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Moscow, Russia
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, United States of America
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, United States of America
The Cleveland Museum of Art, United States of America.
Politics
His compositions are in the People’s style, adapted to Socialist Realism through the use of ideology as an object of consumption.
