Biography

Born 1945 in Moscow,
Since 1980 living and working in USA

Education:

Study of Arts History at the State University of Moscow
1961 Lectures on contemporary art
First works 1959

Group Exhibitions:

1964
Youth Culture Club of the Dsershinskij district of the Komsomol, Moscow

1974
Second Open Air Exhibition, Ismajlowo-Park, Moscow

1975
Apartment Exhibition, Apartment of Boruch, Moscow
Group Exhibition at the All Union Exhibition, Moscow
Action "30 Years UNO", near Moscow

1976
Apartment Exhibition, Moscow
Performance "Duplications", I, II, near Moscow

1978
Bellinzona, Switzerland
Turin, Italy
Action "The Triangle", Moscow

1979
"Colour, Form, Room", Graphic Artists Association, Moscow
"Progressive Tendencies in Moscow", Museum Bochum

1980
Apartment Exhibition at Sherdejew, Moscow

1982
New York, Rochester, Wechester, USA

1982-83
Washington, USA

1983
Washington, Pittsburg, Richmond, Seattle, USA
Vancouver, Canada

1987
"Eremitage: Retrospective 1957 – 87", Moscow

1989
District Museum Kujbischew, Kujbischew, Russia

1991
"The other Art– Moscow 1956-1976", Moscow

1999
"It's the Real Thing – Soviet & Post-Soviet Sots Art & American Pop Art",
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, USA

2000
„The Metamorphosis of the Red Star. Sots-Art“, Sandmann ART Management at RHWK, Berlin

2001
"Abstraction in Russia. The XX. Century", Russian Museum, St.-Petersburg

2002
"The Metamorphosis of the Red Star. Sots-Art", University Basel, Switzerland Artists Association Basel, Gallery Sandmann, Berlin
"M_ARS. Art and War", New Gallery Graz, Austria

2002
"Berlin-Moscow", Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
"Moscow-Berlin", State owned Historic Museum, Moscow

2005
"EAST ART MAP", Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum City of Hagen, Germany

2006
"Russian Pop-Art", State owned Tretjakov-Gallery, Moscow

One Man Shows:

1962
Apartment Exhibition "The red Truck", Moscow, apartment of artist M. Roginskij's brother

1964
"Aeroplanes and missiles", Institute of Biophysics, Moscow

1978
Graphic Artists Association, Malaja Grusinskaja St., Moscow

1987
Gallery EXIT ART, New York

1993
Central House of Painters, Moscow

1998-99
Apartment Exhibition, Dr. Marina Sandmann, ART Management, Berlin

1997 "Michail Tschernischow: Attack. Works 1961-2002", ifa-Gallery, Berlin
"Dangerous Games" (jointly with J. Zlotnikov), Gallery Sandmann, Berlin