About the artist:

Born in 1951 in Chernovtsy, Ukraine Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY Solo Exhibitions 2011 "Lost Christmas ", Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2008 "Shimon Okshteyn: Dangerous Pleasures", Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY 2008 "Reflections of Reality", Heist Gallery, New York, NY 2007 "Dialogue With Objects, Retrospective Exhibition", The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia / catalogue raisonné 2007 "Dialoque With Objects, Retrospective Exhibition", M'ARS Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia 2007 "After Lifes: Recent Work by Shimon Okshteyn, companion show to Natura Morta: Still-Life Painting and the Medici Collections", Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 2006 "Shimon Okshteyn: After Lifes: New Paintings and Sculpture", Stux Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Nohra Haime Gallery, New York City, USA 2003 OK Harris, New York City, USA 2002 Galerie du Palais Le Touquet Paris Plage, France 2002 Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, USA 2002-2001 Des Les Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA 2001-2000 O. K. Harris, New York City, USA 2000 Magidson Fine Art, New York City, USA 1999 Robert Sandelson, London, England 1999 "Paper Works" Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, USA 1998 "Aging Icons" O. K. Harris Gallery, New York City, USA 1998 " Simple Objects" Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, USA 1998 "Nostalgia" Le Centre d’Art Vaas, Vence, France 1997 O. K. Harris Gallery, New York City, USA 1996 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA 1995 O. K. Harris Gallery, New York City, USA 1995 Le Centre d’Art Vaas, Vence, France 1994 O. K. Harris Gallery, New York City, USA 1994 Central Exhibition Hall Krymskiy Val, Moscow, Russia 1994 Cornwell Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1993 Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida, USA 1992 Duteurtre Gallery, Kloisters, Switzerland 1992 Alex Edmund Gallery, New York City, USA 1991 Duteurtre Gallery, Torino, Italy 1990 George Meyers Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, USA 1990 Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1989-1984 Edward Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York City, USA 1987 Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA 1981 Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA 1981 Wilbraham Monson Academy, Wilbraham, Massachusetts, USA Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 Concerning the Spiritual Tradion in Russian Art: Selections from the Kolodzei Foundation, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY 2010 Decadence Now! Visions of Excess, curated by Otto M. Urban at the Galerie Rudolfinum and Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Czech Republic 2007 - 2009 Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, Traveling exhibition: University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA; Salina Art Center, Salina, KS 2008 Here’s the Thing: The Single Object Still Life, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY 2006 - 2007 Frist Center fo Visual Arts, Nashville TN, EXTRA-ORDINARY: THE EVERYDAY OBJECT IN AMERICAN ART SELECTIONS FROM THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART 2005 New York State Museum, EXTRA-ORDINARY: THE EVERYDAY OBJECT IN AMERICAN ART SELECTIONS FROM THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Albany, NY, USA 2003 Nohra Haime Gallery, "Brooklyn on 57th Street", New York City, USA 2003 Whitney Museum of American Art, "Approaching Objects", works from the Whitney Museum permanent collection, New York City, USA. 2001 Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA 2001 NEW ACQUISITIONS, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA 2001 O. K. Harris Gallery, New York City, USA 2000 Danford Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA 2000 Robert Sandelson, London, England 2000 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, USA 1999 Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, USA 1998 Forum Gallery, New York City, USA 1997 Biennale Internationale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy 1996 Forum Gallery, New York City, USA 1995 Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City, USA 1995 Gallerie La Point, Monte Carlo, Monaco 1994 Forum Gallery, New York City, USA 1994 Le Centre d’Art Vaas, Vence, France 1994 Leonard Hutton Gallery, New York City, USA 1993 Monumental Propaganda, New York - Moscow 1992 National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC, USA 1992 Roy Miles Gallery, London, England 1992 Bianca Pilat Gallery, Milan, Italy 1991 Mabat Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 1991 Siegert Gallery, Basel, Switzerland 1990 Fine Arts Museum of Nassau County, New York, USA 1990 Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, USSR 1988 Jane Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 1986 Edward Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York City, USA 1985 Magna Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA 1984 Soho International Art Center, New York City, USA 1983 Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA Selected Public Collections CB Collection, Tokyo, Japan The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA George Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA Rutgers University, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA The Grinnell College Art Collection, Grinnell, Iowa, USA Selected Private Collections Rocky H. Aoki, USA Vivienne Bregman, USA Stanley Cohen, USA Marion Duteurtre, France Arthur Goldberg, USA Fred Howard, USA Alfred & Lee Hutt USA Japan Tobacco Company, Japan Ivan & Marilynn Karp, USA Dr. P.J.K. Kouri, USA Walter E. G. Lindermaier, Germany Phillip Messinger, USA Martina & Gerd Meyer-Schwickerath, Germany Pierre Mirabao, Switzerland Steven Mogol, USA Edward Nakhamkin, USA Beth Rudin Dewoody, USA Werner Schneider, Germany Michael & Diane Steinberg, USA James G. Taggart, USA Christine & Martin Taplin, USA Philippe V. Therenaz, Switzerland Education Odessa Art College, Odessa, Ukraine, BFA (1970)