Utkin, Ilya V.

1955 born in Moscow
. 1978 graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture (Faculty of residential and public buildings)
. member of the Union of Artists
. member of the Union of Architects
. 1973-93 worked with Brodsky
. 1995 Professor of International Academy of Architecture
.
. Collections where works
.
. Museum of Fine Arts
. Pushkin, Moscow
. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
. Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, USA
. Nancy and Norton Dodge collection, Zimmerly Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
. Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany
.
. Participation in exhibitions and auctions
.
. SOLO EXHIBITIONS

. 1995 "Melancholy"
. Regina Gallery, Moscow

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (together 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, Sharlottesvil, USA
"Brodsky and Utkin". Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
1995 "Melancholy". Regina Gallery, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (main, together with A. Brodsky)

1986 XVII Exhibition of Young Artists. Artist's House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"Paper Architecture". SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
1987 XVIII Exhibition of Young Artists. Manege, 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 Triennalle. 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 Iolla, 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, 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, De Moines, IA, USA
1991 "Dead Heroes, Disfigured Love". Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, USA

. PRIZE

. 1978 Second Prize (together with G. Solopova), OISTT Competition: "Theatre for Future Generations", Paris, France
. 1982 First Prize, Central Glass Company Competition "Crystal Palace", Tokyo, Japan
. 1983 Honorable Mention, Competition "Museum of Sculpture, 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 Honorable Mention, 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

Criticism

One of the main representatives of Russia's "paper architecture" in this project serves as the author of the artistic installation. Exposition of the exhibition is based on a combination of architectural and decorative design, which bears the name "House of homeless and a large series of black and white photographs ruinirovannyh buildings architecture. Chief contrast - between the meticulously recorded the history of melancholia finally disappearing from the wreckage and shaping the architectural object - sets the exhibition the very tone, . which is characteristic for the main creative activity,
. Ilya Utkin. Melancholy ". Regina Gallery, April, 1995