Aleksandr Razin

Biography
Aleksandr Razin was born in 1958 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He grew up in an art village and spent countless hours as a child in the studio of his grandfather, a noted illustrator. In 1976, Razin began attending the Art Academy of Tashkent, and he received an MFA degree from the Tashkent College of Fine Arts in 1982.
At the beginning of Perestroika, when the iron curtain was lifted, prominent art dealers from England and Germany went to Russia and the former republics to look for new talent. Captivated by Razin's work, they immediately began to exhibit him in their galleries. Dr. Gerhard Bodenstein, of the Apex Gallery in Gottingen, Germany, placed Razin in the Uzbekistani avant-garde, among those painters who refused to conform to traditional art. According to Bodenstein, his works represent "a successful linking of Orient and Occident and prove something like an international language of fine art."
In 1996, Razin and his family emigrated from Uzbekistan to the United States and settled in Long Island, New York. He began teaching at the Bridgeview Art School in New York City, and since 2004, he has been a member of the Silvermine Guild faculty in New Canaan, Connecticut.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS and SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS
2024 Sneaker, Site-specific Installation, Jamaica Flux Project, NYC 2022 Sawdust Body/The Zoo, Solo Show, Ethan Cohen Kube, Beacon, NY 2021 Darkest Before Down, Sneaker, Installation, Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon, Ny
2020 We are Overflowing, Sneaker, Environmental Sculpture, Art Fair Fort Myers Florida 2019 Something’s Gotta Give, Site-Specific Installation, Westbeth Gallery, NYC
2018 Environmental Sculpture, Contemporary Centaur, Governors Island Art Fair NYC 2017 Site-Specific Installation, Teleportation, Chashama Space, Brooklyn NY
2016 Sculpture, Plastic Garden or Transformer Governors Island Art Fair and NYC National Park Department
2015 Eco Sculpture, Universal Butterfly Governors Island Art Fair NYC
2015 Site-Specific Installation, Long Island Children's Museum, NY
2013 Fabrika 7, An Apartment with a View on Your Imagination, Dumbo NYC
2013 Fabrika 5, Jurassic Park, Art Facto...