Background
Komar, Vitaly was born on September 11, 1943 in Moscow.
Komar, Vitaly was born on September 11, 1943 in Moscow.
Born in Moscow, Komar attended art high school there from 1958 to 1960, after which he studied and graduated from the Moscow High School of Industry.
He began cooperating with Alexander Melamid in 1973 and collaborated with him until 2003, when the two separated to pursue individual work. Komar currently resides in New York City, United States of America, and has had solo exhibitions at the Moscow Biennale and the Galerie Sandmann (Berlin, Germany).