About the artist:

Yuri Kuper, who has exhibited in the U.S., Japan and Europe, and whose works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is noted for his mystical, melancholic, eerily transcendental still lifes, often constructed with found objects from the painter’s studio. Working rigorously through the classic processes of the Modern artist, Kuper is all about carefully gesturing paint – texture, mood, tone, color – all about managing a richly nuanced ground in which his objects take on the quality of hallowed archaeological “mummies” or intensely felt hammer, or pitcher standing in for every man. One is reminded that there is such sweet tragedy in the comfort of faded, familiar objects from childhood, a failed marriage, an abandoned garage – and so few times that we can lock our minds upon these talismans to feel that state of suspended being. SELECTED ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS 2004 Decor and Costumes of Boris Gudanov, Galerie Minksy, Paris, France Winter Gallery, exhibit of sketches for Alexander Sokurov's film production The Sun and the opera Boris Gudanov, St. Petersburg, Russia 2003 Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York 2002 Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York 2001 Galerie Patrick Cramer, Salon d’Marche, Geneva, Switzerland 2000 Yoshii Gallery, New York 1999 Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts,Norwich, England 1998 Modern Art Gallery, London, England 1997 William Weston Gallery, London, England Claude Bernard Gallery, New York Dom Nachekina Gallery, Moscow, Russia Galerie Patrick Cramer, Geneva, Switzerland Galerie de la Bouquinerie de l’Institut,Paris, France 1996 Saga, Paris, Quedillart, Paris, France Galerie de la Bouquinerie de l’Institut,Paris, France Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia 1995 Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia Bowles/Sorokko Galleries, New York 1994 Bowles/Sorokko Galleries, San Francisco;Los Angeles Galerie Krugier-Ditesheim,Geneva, Switzerland Galerie Vallois, Paris, France Galerie Yoshii, Paris, France 1993-94 Musée de Toulon, Toulon, France 1993 Galerie Le Point, Monaco Galerie Montaigne, Paris, France Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England Yoshii Gallery, New York 1992 Galerie de la Bouquinerie de l’Institut,Paris, France Galerie Hesdin, Paris, France Galerie Rambert, Paris, France Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1991 Shokoku-no-mori Museum, Kyoto, Japan Kiyoharv-Shirakaba Museum (Yoshii-Kiyohau Foundation), Kanto, Japan Ueno-no-mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan Salon de mars, Gallerie Vallois, Paris, France Galerie Vallois, Paris, France Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1990 Galerie de la Bouquinerie de l’Institut,Paris, France Galerie Rambert, Paris, France