Irina Riznychok

Visiting Scholar
 

E-Mail: iriznych@uni-bremen.de / riznychok@gmail.com

 
Current scholar project:

• “The Third Wave of Russian Artistic Emigration to New York: strategies, exhibitions and reception”, PhD-thesis

Research areas

• Soviet Postwar Art
• Russian Avant-Garde
• The Cultural Dimensions of the Global Cold War
• The Third Wave of Russian Artistic Emigration
• The Art and Cultural History of the Ural from 1950s to present

Short CV

Education

2016 – 2022 Postgraduate school, Department of Art History and Museum Studies, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg

2017 Art critic, School of Art Journalism, PRO ARTE Foundation, Saint Petersburg

2011 – 2013 МА, Department of Art History and Museum Studies, Ural Federal University

2004 – 2009 Specialist, Faculty of Art History and Cultural Studies, Ural State University, Ekaterinburg

Professional Employment


2018 – 2023 Head of the sector of the Russian Art of the XX-th century, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts

2017 – 2019 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art History and Museum Studies, Ural Federal University

2016 – 2019 Art critic, It's My City online

2010 – 2018 Senior Researcher, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts

Selected Publications

Iurii Grachev v N'iu-Iorke: ot geometricheskoi abstraktsii k neoekspressionizmu [Yuri Grachev in New York: from Geometric Abstraction to Neo-Expressionism], Akademicheskij Vestnik Uralniiproekt RAASNA 1 (March), 2023, 76-82, DOI10.25628/UNIIP.2023.56.1.013

“Chelovek, possorivshiisia s Khrushchevym”: Ernst Neizvestnyi v amerikanskoi presse v 1960-1980-e gody [“The Man Who Clashed With Khrushchev”: Ernst Neizvestny in the American Press in 1960-1980s], Izvestiya Uralskogo federalnogo universiteta. Seriya 2: Gumanitarnye nauki, 25(1), 2023, 58–79, https://doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2023.25.1.004

«Poka osedaet pyl'»: vospriiatie vystavok khudozhnikov-emigrantov iz SSSR v amerikanskoi presse v 1970–1980-e gg. ["When the Dust Settles": the Perception of the Exhibitions of the Emigre Artists from the USSR in the American Press in the 1970–1980s], Izvestiya Uralskogo federalnogo universiteta. Seriya 2: Gumanitarnye nauki, V. 21. No. 4
(193), 2019, 182–195, https://doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2019.21.4.075

Tret'ia volna russkoi khudozhestvennoi emigratsii v SShA (1960-1980): poisk aktual'noi optiki issledovaniia [Third Wave of the Russian Artistic Emigration to the USA (1960-1980s): the search for actual research lenses], History of Art in Russia - XX century: intentions, contexts, schools, Alpatov Readings, 2018, 93-97.

Russkie khudozhniki v SShA (1960-1980-e gg.): problema integratsii v kontekst amerikanskogo iskusstva [Russian artists in the USA (1960-1980s): the problem of integration into the context of American Art], The multidimensionality of society: materials of the international. stud. conf. Ekaterinburg: Ural Publishing House, 2017, 24-27.

Op-art v al'ternativnom iskusstve Sverdlovska [Op-art in Alternative Art of Sverdlovsk. Victor Goncharov], Unofficial Art in the USSR. 1950–1980s. M.: Booksmart, 2014, 276-283.


Conferences

Unpacking the Block: Circulation of Knowledge, Resources and Practices in Eastern Europe and Beyond. International Workshop (April 22-23, 2022, without affiliation, online). Paper presented: “Examining the Boundaries: Soviet Conceptualist Artists and American Alternative Art Scene in the early 1980s”.

Alien and Other: ways of cultural transfer in art and visual culture. Interdisciplinary Conference (March 11–12, 2022, European University, St. Petersburg). Paper presented: “Lost in Translation. Russian Samizdat Art exhibition in the US (1982–1984): history and reception”.

International Forum for Young Scholars of Soviet and Post-Soviet History and Culture (second session), National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, November 29-December 1, 2018. Paper presented: “The Exhibitions of Russian Emigré Artists in New York in 1960-1980s: Nonconformism Fuels Interest”.

Unofficial Art in the USSR. 1950s–1980s. Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, March 14-16, 2012. Paper presented: “Op-art in Alternative Art of Sverdlovsk. Viсtor Goncharov”.