Resume - C. Grimaldis Gallery

ALEXEY TITARENKO
1962
Born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia
EDUCATION
1978 Became member of “Zerkalo” (Mirror) photoclub
1983 Department of Cinematic and Photographic Art at the Leningrad
Institute of Culture, Photography degree
1989
Joined Ligovka group of photographers.
Organized Ligovka-99 Exhibition space
1994
Founder and member of the Board of Charitable Trust for Development of
Classical Music and Culture, St Petersburg, Russia
1997
Member of the Russian Union of Artists
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
“Alexey Titarenko,” C. Grimaldis Gallery, April 4 - May 12, Baltimore, MD
2011
“Havana 2003 - 2006 in the framework of ‘A Revolutionary Project: Cuba
from Walker Evans to now,’” The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Alexey Titarenko: Emotions,” AD Gallery, Genolier, Switzerland
“Alexey Titarenko: Photographs 1986 - 2010,” Lodz International Fotofest. Atlas
Sztuki Gallery, Lodz, Poland
2010
“Saint-Petersburg - Revelations Tardives,” Camera Obscura Gallery, Paris, France
“La Cite Des Ombres Et Autres Mondes,” Promenades Photographiques’
International Festival, Museum of the City of Vendome, Vendome, France
“Alexey Titarenko: Petersburg in Black & White, Late Revelations,” Moscow
International Photobiennales, Pobeda Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Saint Petersburg in Four Mouvements,” Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
2009
“Soviet Nostalgia: Images From A Forgotten Era,” Blue Square Gallery, Paris, France
2008 “Alexey Titarenko: Havana,” C. Grimaldis Gallery, June 4-July 12, Baltimore, MD
“Unfulfilled Time,” Curated by Gabriel Bauret, Thessaloniki Photo Biennale, April May, Greece
“Alexey Titarenko: Venice,” Nailya Alexander Gallery, NY
2007 “Alexey Titarenko. Photographs” ‘Na Solyanke’ Gallery. Moscow, Russia
“Havana Sketches”, Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
“City of Shadows”, Sirius Art Center, Cork, Ireland
“Alexey Titarenko: St. Petersburg”, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonnah, NY
523 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201 410.539.1080 www.cgrimaldisgallery.com
2006 “Northern Light: Pentti Sammalahtti-Alexey Titarenko”, Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
“Saint Petersburg – Shadows into Light”, Wall space, Seattle, WA
2005 “Alexey Titarenko”, Artotheque, Vitre, France“Sogni di Luce”, Galleria Santa Cecilia,
Rome, Italy
2004 Retrospective Exhibition ALEXEY TITARENKO, Centre Culturel Andre Malraux,
Nancy, France
“Alexey Titarenko”, St. Die, France “Alexey Titarenko”, White Square Gallery,
Moscow, Russia
“Alexey Titarenko: Time Standing Still”, Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC
“Alexey Titarneko: Venice - Paris”, Apex Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“St. Petersburg: City of Water and City of Shadows”, FotoFest, Houston, 2003 “City of Shadows: Photographs of Petersburg by Alexey Titarenko”, Middelbury
College Museum of Art, Middelbury, VT
“Four Movements of St. Petersburg”, SpazioFoto Credito Artigiano, Florence, Italy
“Alexey Titarenko: Black and White Magic of St. Petersburg”, C. Grimaldis Gallery,
in the framework of “Vivat! St. Petersburg Festival”, Baltimore, MD
“Saint Petersbourg: La cite des ombres”, Camera Obscura Gallery, Paris, France
2002 “City of Shadows”, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
“Alexey Titarenko: Four Movements of St. Petersburg”, Reattu Museum, Arles
International Photography Festival, France
“Time Regained: Fragments from St. Petersburg series”, Manezh Central Exhibition
Hall, Moscow, Russia
2001 “City of Shadows”, International Art Biennial, Apex Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 “Le temps inachevé”, Nei Liicht gallery, Luxemburg
“Magician of St. Petersburg”, Gary Edwards Gallery, Washington, DC
“St. Petersburg”, Le Bellevue Exhibition Hall, International Festival of Photography
“Biarritz Terre d’Images”, Biarritz, France
“Alexey Titarenko”, Retrospective Exhibition, Galerie Municipale du
Chateau d’eau, Festival Garonne, Toulouse, France
“Nomenklatura of Signes” projection in the framework of the festival “Keep the
Light on... “, Centre national de l’audiovisuel, Clervaux Castle, Luxembourg;
International Photography Festival in Biarritz, France
1999
“Ville des ombres. La magie noire et blanche de St. Petersbourg”, Musée de Nice,
Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice, France; Soros Center for Contemporary
Art/Open Society Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
1998 “Errance”, The Sixth International Festival “Histoire de voir 98. Mois de la
photographie et de l’image”, Museum Pierre Noel, Saint-Die, France
“Alexey Titarenko: Magic of St. Petersburg”, Month of Photography,
Bratislava, Slovakia
1997 “Die schwarze und weisse Magie von St. Petersburg”, Neuen Rathaus, Ingelheim,
Germany
1996
“Black and White Magic of St Petersburg”, Month of European Culture in St.Petersburg,
The Grand Hall of St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society, St. Petersburg
1994
“City of Shadows”, Gallery-21, St Petersburg, Russia
1993
“Nomenklatura of Signs”, in the framework of Photopostcriptum project, State Russian
Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
1989
“Nomenklatura of Signs”, Ligovka- 99 Exhibition Hall, Leningrad, USSR
“Visages de Leningrad”, Drouart Gallery, Paris, France
1988
Retrospective Exhibition, Municipal Cultural Center, Gdyn, Poland
1987
“Fragments of the Forest”, Mariynsky Theatre, Leningrad, USSR
1983
Nevsky Prospekt 90, Leningrad, USSR
also 1986 and 1988
1978
Kirov Palace of Culture, Leningrad, USSR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
“Soviet Photography in the 1980’s from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection,”
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
2010
“Chroniques Russes,” Le Theatre de la Photographie et de l’Image, Nice, France
2009
“Les Artistes des Chambres D’Echo,” Reattu Museum, Arles, France
“Delpire & Co,” Espace Van Gogh and Eglise des Trinitaires, Arles, France
“Russie(s), La Collection S’expose,” Musee de l’Elysee, A Museum for Photography,
Lausanne, Switzerland
“Innovation, An Exhibition Within an Exhibition,” AIPAD Photography Show, Park
Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2008
“Elements Group Exhibition”, Art Institute of Colorado, Denver CO
2007 “Vital signs: Place” George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
“DE L’EUROPE.Photographies, essais, histoires”, Centre National
Audiovisuel de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
“Photographier la ville‘ Collection of ‘Galerie du Château d’ Eau’
Toulouse, Espace Saint-Jean de Melun, France
2006 “Through the Lens II”, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2005 “Et c’est aisi que les hommes vivent,” French Senate, Paris, France “From Recent Acquisitions,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2003 “Concealed Identity”, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Time Standing Still: St. Petersburg Photographs”, Georgetown University Art
Gallery, Washington, DC
1999-03 International photographic print expositions: Paris-Photo; Photo San Francisco; Photo Los Angeles; the Photography Show in NY
1999 “Neva/Mississippi. Contemporary Russian photography”, pARTs Photographic
Arts, Minneapolis, MI
“Without the Wall: Eastern Europe after the Berlin Wall”, The State Russian Museum,
St. Petersburg, Russia
“Contemporary Art Department: Recent Acquisitions”,The State Russian Museum,
St. Petersburg, Russia
“Drei Zeitebenen: St.Petersburg in Fotografien”, Kulturhaus Osterfelt, Pforzheim,
Germany
1998 “Petersburg-97”, Contemporary Art of St. Petersburg, Manezh Central Exhibition
Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Trace of a Shadow: Dramatic Themes of St. Petersburg Photography at the End of
the 20th Century”, Okhta Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
“The Anatomy of Contemporary Art”, Art Collegium Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Daniil Harms Festival”, Museum of History in St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Aufbruch -Die neue russische Fotografie”, Internationalen Photoszene, Colonge,
Germany; BAYER AG, Leverkusen, Germany St. Petersburg Biennale
“Autumn Marathon”, Art Collegium Gallery , St. Petersburg
“Exhibition of New Acquisitions 1988-98”, the State Russian Museum,
St. Petersburg, Russia
“Vous avez dit, famille”, Month of photography, Paris, France
“Contemporary photography of East Europe”, Stadtgalerie, Horn, Austria
1997 “Northern dream: CD-ROM Photo-Show”, in the framework of the ‘Salute St. Petersburg’
Festival, the World Financial Center, New York, “The First Five Years: Painting, Graphic Art, Photography and Installations”, the State
Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Petersburg-96”, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia “Progress: From Leningrad to St. Petersburg”, Dostoevsky Museum, St. Petersburg
Gary Edwards Gallery, Washington, DC,
Russian Embassy, Washington, DC
1996-97 “Chronicles of change”, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; Washington
Center for Photography, Washington, DC
1996 “Russian Photographers: Renewal and Metamorphoses from the End of the Soviet Era
to the 1990s”, The MIT Museum, Boston, MA “Photo-96”, The Harbor, St Petersburg, Russia “Photoarchaeolog,” Month of Photography in
Moscow, Kashirka Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
“The 4th St Petersburg Biennale of Contemporary Art”, Museum of the History of
St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, Russia
1995 “New Soviet photography”, Karlsruhe Art Museum, Germany (followed by a two-year tour
of German cities)
“Conceptual photography from St Petersburg”, Ifa Gallerie, Berlin “Self-identification”,
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway; The State Russian Museum, St
Petersburg, Russia
“Photoarchaeology”, Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
1994 “Self-identification”, Stadtgalerie in Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany 1992 “Tramplin pour les images”, French National Centre of Photography, Tokyo Palace,
Paris, France
“Les experiences photographiques Russes”, Grand Ecran, Month of Photography,
Paris, France
1990 “Photostroyka: New Soviet Photography”, Burden Gallery; Apertur Foundation, New York
(followed by a three-year tour of cities throughout the USA)
1989
Ligovka group exhibition, Leningrad Cinema, Leningrad, USSR
1987 The Second National Exhibition “Photo Art of Russia”, Exhibition Pavilion of National
Economic Achievements, Moscow, USSR “Photo-art of Leningrad”, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, Leningrad, USSR
1986-88 Took part in photographic festivals organized by the Baltic States and Leningrad: Valga-86,
Valga, Estonia; Uzvara-87, Uzvara, Latvia; Bauska-88, Bauska, Latvia
1979-1989
Annual review exhibitions of Mirror Photographic Club, Kirov Palace of Culture, 1979;
Karl Marx Palace of Culture from 1980, Leningrad, USSR
1978 Mirror Photographic Club Second exhibition, Kirov Palace of Culture, Leningrad, USSR
SELECTED GRANTS
1993-94 Musée de l’Elysée, Museum for Photography (Lausanne, Switzerland)
1995-96 Soros Center for Contemporary Art (St Petersburg, Russia)
1998 Mosaic Program (Luxembourg’s National Center for Audio-Visual Art, Luxembourg)
Kultur Kontakt, Vienna, Austria
1999 ‘Courants’ Grants Programme (French Ministry of Culture, Paris, France)
2003-04 Grant from ‘Centre Culturel Andre Malraux’, ‘Direction des affaires culturelles de la
Ville de Nancy et de la region de Lorraine’, ‘Surface –Sensible’ Art Association. France
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Joaquim Paiva Collection / Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Artotheque, Vitre, France
Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Chrysler Museum of Fine Art, Norfolk, VA
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Columbia, OH
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
European House of Photography, Paris, France
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Santa Barbara Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Barbara, CA
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Reattu Museum of Fine Arts, Arles, Francce
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
Musée de l’Elysée, Museum for Photography, Lausanne, Switzerland
Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Dudelange, Luxemborg
Theatre de la Photographie et de l’Image, Nice, France
Galerie du Chateau d’eau, Toulouse, France
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
523 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 410.539.1080 www.cgrimaldisgallery.com