Olga Chernysheva
Olga Chernysheva, GRIDS@RIPS, 2020, installation view, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
Olga Chernysheva, GRIDS@RIPS, 2020, installation view, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
Olga Chernysheva, GRIDS@RIPS, 2020, installation view, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
Olga Chernysheva, Autoradio, 2018, oil on canvas, 27 1/2 x 35 3/8 x 7/8 in. (70 x 90 x 2.5 cm), OC_FP4025
Olga Chernysheva, Autoradio, 2018, oil on canvas, 15 3⁄4 x 23 5⁄8 x 7⁄8 in. (40 x 60 x 2.5 cm), OC_FP4027
Olga Chernysheva, Autoradio, 2018, installation view, Foxy Production, New York
Olga Chernysheva, Moscow River, 2018, oil on canvas, 23 5⁄8 x 23 5⁄8 x 7⁄8 in. (60 x 60 x 2.5 cm), OC_FP4012
Olga Chernysheva, Moscow River, 2018, oil on canvas, 19 5⁄8 x 39 3⁄8 x 7⁄8 in. (49.85 x 100.01 x 2.22 cm), OC_FP4013
Olga Chernysheva, Untitled, 2018, oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 x 7/8 in. (60 x 60 x 2.5 cm), OC_FP4023
Olga Chernysheva, Untitled, 2018, oil on canvas, 15 3⁄4 x 11 3⁄4 x 7⁄8 in. (40 x 30 x 2.5 cm), OC_FP4038
Olga Chernysheva, Escalation, 2018, watercolor on paper, 18 7/8 x 14 1/8 in. (48 x 36 cm) - paper size, 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 7/8 in. (52 x 42 x 2.5 cm) - framed size, OC_FP4035
Olga Chernysheva, Escalation, 2018, watercolor on paper, 18 7/8 x 14 1/8 in. (48 x 36 cm) - paper size, 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 7/8 in. (52 x 42 x 2.5 cm) - framed size, OC_FP4033
Olga Chernysheva, Chandeliers in the Forest, 2017, installation view,  Secession, Vienna
Olga Chernysheva, Chandeliers in the Forest, 2017, installation view,  Secession, Vienna
Olga Chernysheva, Chandeliers in the Forest, 2017, installation view,  Secession, Vienna
Olga Chernysheva, Chandeliers in the Forest, 2017, installation view,  Secession, Vienna
Olga Chernysheva, Chandeliers in the Forest, 2017, installation view,  Secession, Vienna
Olga Chernysheva, Toward the Source, 2017, installation view, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Olga Chernysheva, Toward the Source, 2017, installation view, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Olga Chernysheva, Toward the Source, 2017, installation view, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Olga Chernysheva, Vague Accent, 2016, installation view, Drawing Center, New York. Photo: Martin Parsekian
Olga Chernysheva, Vague Accent, 2016, installation view, Drawing Center, New York. Photo: Martin Parsekian
Olga Chernysheva, Vague Accent, 2016, installation view, Drawing Center, New York. Photo: Martin Parsekian
Olga Chernysheva, installation view, All the World’s Futures, 2015, Venice Biennale
Olga Chernysheva, All the World’s Futures, 2015, installation view, Venice Biennale
Olga Chernysheva, All the World’s Futures, 2015, installation view Venice Biennale
Olga Chernysheva, Keeping Sight, 2014, installation view, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Belgium
Olga Chernysheva, Keeping Sight, 2014, installation view, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Belgium
Olga Chernysheva, Keeping Sight, 2014, installation view, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Belgium
Olga Chernysheva, Keeping Sight, 2014, installation view, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Belgium
Olga Chernysheva, Untitled, 2011, oil on canvas, 27 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (70 x 40 cm.) OC_FP1868
Olga Chernysheva, Untitled, 2008, oil on canvas, 31 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (80 x 40 cm.) OC_FP1888
Olga Chernysheva, Trashman, 2011, video, dimensions variable / duration 6 min. 30 sec., edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP1876
Still from video
Still from video
Olga Chernysheva, Guard, 2009, gelatin silver fiber print, framed, 150 x 100 cm., edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1485
Olga Chernysheva, Guard, 2009, gelatin silver fiber print, framed, 150 x 100 cm., edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1488
Olga Chernysheva, Guard, 2009, gelatin silver fiber print, framed, 150 x 100 cm., edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1494
Olga Chernysheva, Guard, 2009, gelatin silver fiber print, framed, 150 x 100 cm., edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1492
Olga Chernysheva, Guard, 2009, gelatin silver fiber print, 150 x 100 cm., edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1498
Olga Chernysheva, Alley of Cosmonautes, 2008, gelatin silver fiber print, 11 6/8 x 8 1/8 in. (29.7 x 21 cm.,) edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP1152
Olga Chernysheva, Alley of Cosmonautes, 2008, Gelatin silver fiber print, 8 1/8 x 11 6/8  in. (21 x  29.7 cm.,) edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP1152
Alley of Cosmonautes, 2008, Gelatin silver fiber print, 11 6/8 x 8 1/8 in. (29.7 x 21 cm.,) edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP1152
Olga, Chernysheva, Moscow Area, 2008, gelatin silver fiber print, 11 6/8 x 8 1/8 in. (29.7 x 21 cm.,) edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP1151
Olga Chernysheva, Moscow Area, 2008, silver gelatin fiber print, 11 6/8 x 8 1/8 in. (29.7 x 21 cm.,) edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP1151
Olga Chernysheva, High Road #8, 2007, optical gelatin silver fiber print, 39 1/2 x 59 in. (100 x 150 cm.,) edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1535
Olga Chernysheva, High Road #8, 2007, optical gelatin silver fiber print, 39 1/2 x 59 in. (100 x 150 cm.,) edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1535
Olga Chernysheva, High Road #8, 2007, optical gelatin silver fiber print, 39 1/2 x 59 in. (100 x 150 cm.,) edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1535
Olga Chernysheva, High Road #8, 2007, optical gelatin silver fiber print, 39 1/2 x 59 in. (100 x 150 cm.,) edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1535
Olga Chernysheva, High Road #8, 2007, optical gelatin silver fiber print, 39 1/2 x 59 in. (100 x 150 cm.,) edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1535
Olga Chernysheva, Untitled (Dark), 2007, gelatin silver fiber based print, 24 x 35 in. (60 x 90 cm.,) edition of 4 with 2 AP, OC_FP1090
Olga Chernysheva, Untitled. Dedicated to Sengai, 2008, video, dimensions variable / 5 min. 40 sec., edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP1153
Olga Chernysheva, Untitled. Dedicated to Sengai, 2008, video, dimensions variable / 5 min. 40 sec., edition of 5 with 2AP, OC_FP1153
Olga Chernysheva, From the Deputy, 2008, Duraclear print, 47 x 31 1/4 in / 119.4 x 79.4 cm each, overall dimensions variable, edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP1253, installation view, Foxy Production, New York. Photo: Mark Woods
Olga Chernysheva, From the Deputy, 2008, Duraclear print, 47 x 31 1/4 in. (119.4 x 79.4 cm.,) edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP1154
Olga Chernysheva, From the Deputy, 2008, Duraclear print, 47 x 31 1/4 in. (119.4 x 79.4 cm.,) edition of 5 + 2 AP, OC_FP1154
Olga Chernysheva, Untitled (Dark), 2007, gelatin silver fiber based print, 24 x 35 in. (60 x 90 cm.,) edition of 4 with 2 AP
Olga Chernysheva, Untitled (Festival), 2007, gelatin silver fiber based print, 24 x 35 in. (60 x 90 cm.,) edition of 4 with 2 AP, OC_FP1089
Olga Chernysheva, Untitled (Festival), 2007, gelatin-silver fiber based print, 24 x 35 in., (60 x 90 cm.,) edition of 4 with 2 AP
Olga Chernysheva, 2007, Untitled (Festival), 2007, gelatin-silver fiber based print, 24 x 35 in. (60 x 90 cm.,) edition of 4 with 2 AP
Olga Chernysheva, Open Hours, 2007, optical C-Print, 12 x 18 in. (30.48 x 45.7 cm.,) edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1055
Olga Chernysheva, Open Hours, 2007, optical C-print, 40 x 60 in. (101.6 x 152.4 cm.,) edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1048
Olga Chernysheva, On Duty, 2007, optical silver gelatin fiber print, 53 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (136 x 90 cm.,) edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP927
Olga Chernysheva, On Duty, 2007, gelatin silver fiber based print, 53.1 x 35.4 in. (135 x 90 cm.,) edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP990
Olga Chernysheva, On Duty, 2007, gelatin silver fiber based print, 53 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.(136 x 90 cm.,) edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP928
Olga Chernysheva, On Duty, 2007, gelatin silver fiber based print, 53 1/2 x 35 1/2 in. (136 x 90 cm.)
Olga Chernysheva, On Duty, 2007, installation view, Lund Konsthall, Sweden
Olga Chernysheva, Panorama, 2005-2007 (series), oil on canvas, 47 x 59 in. (120 x 150 cm.,) each / installation dimensions variable
Olga Chernysheva, Panorama, 2005-2007 (series), oil on canvas, 47 x 59 in. (120 x 150 cm.,) each / installation dimensions variable
Olga Chernysheva, Panorama, 2005-2007 (series), oil on canvas, 47 x 59 in. (120 x 150 cm.,) each / installation dimensions variable
Olga Chernysheva, March, 2005, video with sound, dimensions variable / 7 min. 30 sec., edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP977
Olga Chernysheva, Second Life, 2001-7, C-print mounted on Sintra, 39 x 59 in. (100 x 150 cm.,) edition of 8 with 2 AP, OC_FP2941
Olga Chernsheva, Second Life, 2007, C-print mounted on Sintra, 39 x 59 in. (100 x 150 cm.,) edition of 8 with 2 AP
Olga Chernysheva, Second Life, 2001-7, C-print mounted on Sintra, 39 x 59 in. (100 x 150 cm.,) edition of 8 with 2 AP
Olga Chernysheva, Second Life, 2001-7, C-print mounted on Sintra, 59 x 39 in. (150 x 100 cm.,)
Olga Chernysheva, Anonymous. Part 2., 2004, video with sound, dimensions variable / 11 min., edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP920
Olga Chernysheva, Anonymous. Part 1., 2004, video with sound, dimensions variable / 8 min., edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP919
Olga Chernysheva, The Train, 2003, video with sound, dimensions variable / 7 min. 30 sec., edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP922
Olga Chernysheva, Waiting for the Miracle, 2000, c-print, 21.7 x 31.5 in. (55 x 80 cm.,) OC_FP1484
Installation view, Foxy Production, New York. Photo by Mark Woods.
Olga Chernysheva, Waiting for the Miracle, 2000, c-print, 21 3/4 x 31 1/2 in. (55 x 80 cm.,) OC_FP1483
Olga Chernyhseva, Waiting for the Miracle, 2000, C-print, 21 3/4 x 31 1/2 in. (55 x 80 cm.,) edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP1313
Olga Chernysheva, Waiting for the Miracle, 2000, c-print, 21 3/4 x 31 1/2 in. (55 x 80 cm.,) OC_FP1314
Olga Chernysheva, Dream Street, 1999, 10 lightboxes, 11 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 2 in. (30 x 40 x 5 cm.,) overall dimensions variable, edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1252
Olga Chernysheva, Dream Street, 1999, 10 light boxes, 11 5/8 x 15 3/4x 2 in. (30 x 40 x 5 cm.,) overall dimensions variable, edition of 3 with 2 AP, OC_FP1252
Olga Chernysheva, Dream Street, 1999, duratrans in light boxes, 11 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 2 in. (30 x 40 x 5 cm.,) overall dimensions variable, edition of 3 with 2 AP, installation view, Bass Museum, Miami Beach
Olga Chernysheva, Anabiosis. Fisherman-Plants., 2000, c-print mounted on Dibond, 41.3 x 27.6 in. / 105 x 70 cm., edition of 5 with 2 AP, OC_FP921
Olga Chernysheva, Marmot, 1999, video with sound, dimensions variable / 2 min. 30 sec., FP_OC978
Olga Chernysheva, [Luk] at This, 1997, B/w photo, 38 2/3 x 53 1/4 in. (98 x 135 cm.,) edition of 9 with 2 AP, OC_FP1740

Olga Chernysheva’s often unwitting subjects are observed negotiating a society in turbulence, where the sense of a common future is rapidly dissolving. Her films, photographs, paintings, drawings and object-based works lyrically investigate the fabric of individuality and self-sufficiency, and meditate upon the role of the artist in a time of flux. Chernysheva has a vital interest in the relations between object and figure, in particular in the ways that people and the spaces they inhabit seem often to co-exist uneasily. Her backgrounds with their fluctuating tonalities and psychological charge vie with her subjects for center stage

Olga Chernysheva (Moscow, Russia, 1962) lives and works in Moscow. She studied film and animation at the Moscow Cinema Academy and fine art at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Chernysheva has exhibited internationally over three decades. She is currently shortlisted for the Guerlain Drawing Prize, Paris, and participated in the Kathmandu Triennale 2077, 2022, in Nepal.

Other recent notable exhibitions include “Workers” at Tate Modern, London, and “GRIDS@RIPS,” a solo at the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw. She has presented “Chandeliers in the Forest,” a solo at Secession, Vienna; “Revolution Every Day” at the Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago; and “Vague Accent,” a solo at The Drawing Center in New York. Large survey exhibitions include Manifesta 11, Zurich, and “All the World’s Futures” at the Venice Biennale in 2015.

Chernysheva’s works are in many permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; the State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham.

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EXHIBITIONS
Video Store 2023 Gallery
Olga Chernysheva 2022 Gallery
A World of Statues 2019 Gallery
Olga Chernysheva 2018 Gallery
Olga Chernysheva 2011 Gallery
The Pencil Show 2010 Gallery
Olga Chernysheva 2008 Gallery
Solar Set 2007 Gallery
Olga Chernysheva 2007 Gallery
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