Yevgeniy Fiks

Conceptual artist Yevgeniy Fiks explores Soviet historiography. He has produced many projects on the subject of the Post-Soviet dialog in the West, among them: Lenin for Your Library? in which he mailed V.I. Lenin’s text "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” to one hundred global corporations as a donation for their corporate libraries; Communist Party USA, a series of portraits of current members of Communist Party USA, painted from life in the Party’s national headquarters in New York City; and Communist Guide to New York City, a series of photographs of buildings and public places in New York City that are connected to the history of the American Communist movement.

Fiks’ work has been shown internationally. This includes exhibitions in New York at Winkleman and Postmasters galleries, Mass MoCA in North Adams, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City, and the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon.

Courtesy of Michael Steinberg Fine Art