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Ilya Kabakov

1933 – 2023

Labyrinth (My Mother’s Album) 1990
© Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

Biography

Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov (Ukrainian: Ілля Йосипович Кабаков; Russian: Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в; September 30, 1933 – May 27, 2023) was an American and Soviet conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, now Ukraine. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. After emigrating to the United States he lived and worked on Long Island.

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  • Labyrinth (My Mother’s Album)

    Ilya Kabakov
    1990

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    Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: ‘The viewer is the same as the artist’

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    Five Things to Know: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

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    Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future

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    Emilia Kabakov on Ilya Kabakov's Labyrinth (My Mother's Album)

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    Our Collective History: Legacies of Soviet visual culture

    Natalia Sidlina, Juliet Bingham, Emilia Kabakov, Andrei Monastyrski, Irina Nakhova and Arseny Zhilyaev

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