Asya Reznikov

VIEW ALL ARTWORK

Biography:

Asya Reznikov, who currently lives and works in New York, was born in the Soviet Union, raised primarily in the United States, and has lived and worked in France, England, Holland, Italy, Germany, and India. She received her MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College, New York, and her BFA in Glass from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. She has also studied in Berlin, Germany and Wolverhampton, England, and is conversant in five languages.
She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a two-year DAAD fellowship, the Culturas2008 Award from the Cultural Ministry of Spain in Madrid, the Nancy Ashton Memorial Prize, the Edna Well-Lutz Frederick Foundation Scholarship, and the Jutta-Cuny Franz Award. She has had recent solo exhibitions at: The Butler Institute of American Art, OH; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY; Galerie der BASF, Schwarzheide, Germany; European Commission, Luxembourg; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; Times Square Gallery, New York, NY; Galerie Open, Berlin, Germany; and many group exhibitions worldwide. Reznikov is represented in collections of the Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI; Kunstwerk, Sammlung Alison and Peter Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany; 21C Museum, Louisville, KY; Wake Forest University Museum, NC; The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY and in numerous private collections.

Résumé:

 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016   turning life, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2015   Packing Pieces, Fleckenstein Video Gallery, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
2014   Coming and Going and Sitting Still, Digtal Media Gallery, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA
2013   Asya Reznikov, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Video Gallery, Peekskill, NY      
2012   Video-Sculpture, David Klein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Birmingham, MI
2012   Up-Routed For, Exhibition with catalogue, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2012   Along the Way, The Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
2010   On the Way. Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
2010   Up-Routed To, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2009   Up-Routed, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY                                   
2009   Tricking the Eye - Culture and Innovation, European Commission, Luxembourg, Germany
2009   Moving Home-Unterwegs nach Hause, Exhibition with catalogue and DVD, Galerie der BASF, Schwarzheide, Germany
2007   Baggage Claim, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2006   Übersetzung, Galerie-Open, Berlin, Germany
2006   Here/Away, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Time Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
2016   The Art of Now, Hearst Galleries, New York, NY
2015   In the Pink, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2014-2015    Cutout/Decoupage, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2014   Friend of a Friend, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2014   Mirage, Video Festival, Dallas, TX
2014   Summer, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2013-2014    Winter Blues, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2013   MAPnificen! Artists Use Maps!, Bronx River Art Center, New York, NY
2013   Color: The Splendor of, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2012-2013    40 Years, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2012   Pride of Place, Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu-Si, South Korea
2012   Women: By, Of, About, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2012   Generation One and a Half, Abrazo Interno Gallery, NY
2011   State of Mind, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2011   American Chambers, Exhibition with catalogue, Gyeongnam Art Museum, South Korea
2011   Crossing the Atlantic: 40 years of DAAD New York, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2011   Asya Reznikov at the Big Screen Plaza, Eventi Hotel, New York, NY
2011   Contemporary Crosscurrents: Portraits and Electronic Arts, Dubai Marina Mall, Dubai, UAE
2011   Changing the World Through Art, Auction and Benefit, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY                               
2010   All that Glitters, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2010   Lost Horizons II, Art Jail, New York, NY
2010   tART@A.I.R - What's in a Collective, A.I.R Gallery, New York, NY
2010   Friend of a Friend, Thompson-Giroux Gallery, Stockbridge, MA               
2010   Light Festival, Skyscrapers in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, South Korea
2010   Changing the World Through Art, Auction and Benefit, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY
2010   Model Home, Roger Smith Hotel Gallery, NY
2010   Click, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NY
2010   REAL(ist), Ringling Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2009   tART@A.I.R, A.I.R Gallery, New York, NY
2009   Disjointed Terrains, NY Studio Gallery, New York, NY                               
2009   Summer Celebration, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2009   Mixing It Up, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY
2009   Slide Slam, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2009   Querschnitt, KUNSTWERK, Sammlung Alison und Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany
2008   Summer/ Soho, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY 
2008   (Ado/Obso)lescence, Gallery 384, Catskill, NY                                 
2008   Screenings, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany
2008   Lost Horizons, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2008   Petri Dishes, White Box, The Annex and HiArt Gallery, New York, NY
2007   D21: Salon 2007, Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, Germany
2007   New Media Festival ’07, Hardcore Art Contemporary, Miami,      FL
2007   Flying the Coop, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2007   Night Moves, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2007   The Art of Glass from Gallé to Chihuly, Exhibition with catalogue, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
2006   Visage, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
2005   Videos from Gallery Artists: A Screening, Galerie-Open, Berlin, Germany
2005   The Outsider, Arts, Culture & Communication School, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
2004   Material Vision, Exhibition with catalogue, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT
2004   Relics, Williamsburg Art Nexus, Brooklyn, NY
2003   Dirty Old Toy Box, Fluxcore Gallery, Brooklyn, NY                         
2003   Paper for Paper: A Benefit Exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
2001   All Access, Presented by CrossPathCulture, New York, NY
2001   Art of the Northeast, Juror: Bill Arning, Silvermine Guilde Gallery, New Canaan, CT
2000   Lineage, Presented by DUMBO Arts Center and CrossPathCulture, Brooklyn, NY
2000   Annual MCA Foundation Benefit Auction, Juror: Jeff Keogh, Boston, MA
2000   Millennilya: Fifth Annual Women's Exhibition, Jersey City, NJ
1999   Toe Five, Juror: Patrick Smith, Pedestrian Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
1998   Glass Exhibition, Chiesa St. Nicolo, Murano, Italy
1997   Beyond Material, Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA                                                
1997   International Juried Student Exhibition, Joseph Gross Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1997   Muddy River Show, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
 
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, HONORS
2008   2008 Culturas Award, Exhibition and Competition for Intercultural Dialogue, Ministry of Culture of Spain, Madrid, Spain
2006-2008    DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Postgraduate Fellowship, one-year artist fellowship with one-year fellowship extension, Berlin, Germany
2007   DAAD Fine Art Achievement Award, Magdeburg, Germany
2006   Nancy Ashton Memorial Prize, Hunter College Merit Scholarship, New York, NY
2005   Edna Wells Lutz Frederick Foundation Scholarship, travel grant, Germany
2004   Brickhouse Farm Residency, one-week paper making residency, Hudson, NY
2003   Jutta-Cuny Franz Foundation, Prize Recipient, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001   The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, one-month residency Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, alternate
1997   Fulbright Scholarship, finalist
1997   Morton Godine Travel Fellowship, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1996   Student Artist in Residence, Chimicum Glass Studio, Inc., Chimicum, WA
 
COLLECTIONS
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
Wake Forest University Museum, Winston-Salem, NC
21c Museum, Louisville, KY
Kunstwerk, Sammlung Alison und Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY     
Sperry Product Innovation, Woburn, MA
Radius Restaurant, Boston, MA
 
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES          
2012   Focus & Motivation Panel, Moderator, Hunter College, NY          
2012   Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI                                         
2012   Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2012   Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
2011   School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2010   Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2010   School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, visiting lecture and graduate critiques George Mason University, New York, NY
2010   Ringing College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2009   Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2008   Hunter College, New York, NY
 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bina Sarkar Ellias, “Asya Reznikov, Photoessay” Gallerie, January, 2011, p. 99-101
D'Astolfo, Guy, "Art on the Move," The Vindicator, August 29, 2010 p. C6-C7
Betancourt, Marian, "Packing Artist Has the World in her Suitcase," Luxuryweb Magazine www.luxuryweb.com, June 2010
Becker, Noah, "Noah Becker In Discussion With Asya Reznikov," Whitehot Magazine whitehotmagazine.com, May 2010
Artnet Magazine, June. 22
Bernd Balzer, “Moving Home – Unterwegs nach Hause," Lausitzer Rundschau,12 May 2009, p.12.
Jörg Ciszewski, “Kunst aus dem Koffer," Lausitzer Rundschau, 8 May 2009, p. 8.
Wynwood: The Art Magazine, volume 1, #2, October 2007, page 27
Art in America, Red Dot Art Fair Review, April, 2007
Artfacts.net  2006
Neues Glas: Fall 2003
Formed of Fire: Selections in Contemporary Glass, by Bandhu Dunham 2002
Neues Glas: New Glass Review 23, 2002
Verstilde Adem: published by Uitgeverij AmBer, Asperen/Leerdam 1995
 
EDUCATION  
2002-2006    Hunter College, New York, NY, MFA with concentration in combined media
2005-2007    Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany, BFA/MFA        
1993-1997    Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, BFA with concentration in Glass,                 
1993-1994    University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, England, Major: 3D Fine Arts (concentration: Glass), Major: Design (concentration: Illustration)
1992-1993    Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, Studio foundation in sculpture
 
REPRESENTED BY
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
 

Statement:

My work explores how culture, tradition, language, foreignness and sense of home shape and define our identity and how immigration, emigration and travel can either alter or illuminate that identity. Being raised within two cultures, Russian and American, informs my investigation of otherness and self from the standpoint of a foreigner and of a traveler.
My art is an intersection of video, performance, sculpture and installation. I shoot video both on location (in different parts of the world) and on sets that I build in the studio. I composite this video footage and integrate it into other objects to create video sculptures and installations. Also in my pallet of processes are photography, drawing and painting. I construct models and props that I photograph against real scenery to create images that depict a constructed reality. In my drawings and paintings, I merge architecture from around the world into composite landscapes. These methods of layering materials and processes reinforce my concepts by fusing specific sites and situations into unexpected combinations. In this way, I aim to explore and diminish the gap between different cultural realities.
My work challenges viewers to question their own cultural identity and sense of place and to investigate how and to what degree they are a product of their emotional, physical and cultural “baggage.”