12 Facts About Yevgeniy Fiks

Yevgeniy Fiks's medium includes painting, drawing, performance, and book arts.

Yevgeniy Fiks was born in Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972 and has been living and working in New York City since 1994.

Yevgeniy Fiks's works explore the dialectic between Communism and "the West" and are based on historical research, usually of forgotten and unresolved Cold War narratives.

Yevgeniy Fiks has exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art, MassMoCA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Museu Coleccao Berardo in Lisbon.

Yevgeniy Fiks's work has been included in the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Biennale of Sydney and Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art.

Yevgeniy Fiks has a Bachelors in Fine Arts from Brooklyn College and a Masters in Fine Arts from The School of Visual Arts.

Yevgeniy Fiks received 35 response letters with 14 companies accepting the donation.

In Communist Guide to New York City, Yevgeniy Fiks photographed buildings and public places in New York City connected to the history of the American Communist movement.

Yevgeniy Fiks repeated a gesture first made in 1936 by American artists to support the establishment of the failed Utopian project Birdobidzhan.

Homosexuality, Yevgeniy Fiks juxtaposed quotes by American pundits and government officials that connected homosexuality to Communism on top of an image of RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic test bomb nicknamed by the American military as "Joe 1".

In Joe 1 Cruising in Washington DC, Yevgeniy Fiks photographed a 6-foot cardboard print of "Joe 1" in front of gay cruising sites historically active in DC during the Cold War.

Yevgeniy Fiks took on another participatory conceptual project to explore the issue of racial equality in the Soviet Union.