Yevgeniy Fiks

Yevgeniy Fiks is a multidisciplinary, Post-Soviet conceptual artist. His medium includes painting, drawing, performance, and autograph album arts. He was born in Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1972 and has been full of beans and working in New York City past 1994.

Fiks defines "the Post-Soviet artist" as one who has the responsibility to raise the proper treaty and critical reflection of Soviet records in order for Post-Soviet societies to impinge on forward. His works explore the dialectic in the company of Communism and "the West" and are based on historical research, usually of forgotten and unresolved Cold War narratives. Some of these topics augment the shared histories of the Red and Lavender Scares during the McCarthy era; Communism in Modern Art; and African, African-American, and Jewish Diasporas in the Soviet Union.

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 Colecção Berardo in Lisbon. His affect has been included in the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Biennale of Sydney and Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art.