Ilya Valentinovich Utkin

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, USA
Nancy and Norton Dodge collection, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1995 "Melancholy". Regina Gallery, Moscow
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (with A. Brodsky)
1989 "Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin". University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
1990 "Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin". Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
"Brodsky & Utkin". Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
1991 "Brodsky and Utkin: Etchings". The Lab, San Francisco, USA
"Tacoma Walkway Etchings and Drawings". Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, USA
"Brodsky and Utkin: Paper Architects". Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, USA
1992 "Palazzo Nero". Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1993 "Brodsky and Utkin". Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
"Brodsky and Utkin". Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
1995 "Melancholy". Regina Gallery, Moscow
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (mainly with A. Brodsky)
1986 XVII Youth Exhibition. The Artists’ House on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"Paper Architecture". SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
1987 XVIII Youth Exhibition. Manezh, Moscow
1988 "Architecture de Papier d'URSS". La Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, France
"Soviet Architecture: 1917-1988". Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
"The City of the World and the Future of the Metropolis". 17th Triennale. Milan, Italy
"Inventor '89". Paris, France
"Present Tensions: 25 Years of Irreverence in Architecture". The Clocktower, New York, USA
"Nostalgia of Culture". Architectural Association, London, England
1989 "Exhibition Diomede". The Clocktower, New York, USA
"Festival of Soviet Arts". La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, USA
"Architecture and Imagination". De Tien van Fort Asperen, Leerdam, Netherlands
"Concepts in Soviet Architecture: 1917-1988". Berlin, Germany
"Paper Architecture". Antwerp, Belgium
"East Meets West in Design". Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, USA
"Paper Architecture: New Projects from the Soviet Union". Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1990 "Paper Architecture: New Projects from the Soviet Union". MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
"Intaglio Printing in the 1980s". Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
"Paper Architecture". Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
1990-91 "Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism". Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; ICA, Boston, MA; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA
1991 "Dead Heroes, Disfigured Love". Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, USA
AWARDS
1978 Second prize (with G. Solopov), OISTT Competition: "Theatre for Future Generations", Paris, France
1982 First prize, Central Glass Company Competition "Crystal Palace", Tokyo, Japan
1983 Encouragement prize, "Sculpture Museum" competition, Tokyo, Japan
Third prize, Shinkenchiku Competition: "A Dwelling with Historism and Localism", Tokyo, Japan
1984 Second prize, Central Glass Company Competition: "Crystal Palace", Tokyo, Japan
1985 Second prize, Shinkenchiku Competition: "Bulwark of Resistance", Tokyo, Japan
1986 Second prize, Central Glass Company Competition: "A Glass Monument to the 2001", Tokyo, Japan
1987 Encouragement prize, Central Glass Company Competition: "The Intelligent Market", Tokyo, Japan
1988 First prize (architecture), "East Meets West in Design". Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, USA

One of the main representatives of Russian 'paper architecture', Utkin takes the role of an installation artist in this project. The exhibition is structured around a combination of an architecturally decorative construction called 'The Homeless Man's House' and a large series of black-and-white photographs of ruined architectural structures. The main contrast—between the meticulously documented melancholy of a vanishing history and the artistic-architectural object composed from its debris—sets the tone for the exhibition, which is also characteristic of the artist's primary creative work. 'Ilya Utkin. Melancholy.' Regina Gallery, April 1995.