Leonid Sokov (1941 – 2018) was a Russian nonconformist artist and sculptor. Since 1980, Sokov primarily lived and worked in New York City.
Sokov was born in Mikhalevo in the Tver region, Russia in 1941 and graduated from the Stroganov Institute now called the Moscow School of Art and Industry, in 1969. He emigrated to the United States in 1980. His compositions are in the Pop style, adapted to Socialist Realism through the use of ideology as an object of consumption. He is closely related to the Sots art movement and he has worked with others in that genre including Dmitry Prigov, Alexander Kosolapov, and Rostislav Lebedev.
In 2001 he represented Russia at the Venice Biennale. He participated in the 2004 Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, South Korea.
In 2012, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA) honored the artist's 70th birthday with a major retrospective and publication on the artist's career and work.
In 2013, Zimmerli Art Museum organized a major retrospective Leonid Sokov: Ironic Objects. The exhibition was reviewed in ArtNews and the New York Times.[
In 2016, The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow held a major retrospective museum show dedicated to the artist's life and work.
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| Leonid Sokov |
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| Looking with a lantern by the light of the sun, 2010 |
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| Wildcat, 2007 |
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| Kremlin's Idol, 2007 |
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| Gold Trap, 2007 |
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| Bear, 2007 |
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| Flying Cage, 2006 |
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| Two-headed J. Stalin, 2005 |
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| Marinetti's TUMB TUMB, 2005 |
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| Three Russian Sun, 2005 |
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| IKAR, 2004 |
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| Spermatozoids, 2000 |
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| Malevich's funeral, 2000 |
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| Three Hanging Bells, 1999 |
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| Stalin and Bear, 1996 |
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| Russia Today, 1995 |
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| Locked Hammer and Sickle, 1994 |
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| Lenin and Calder, 1994 |
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| Stalin and Malevich, 1992 |
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| Russian Devil, 1990 |
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| Lips and Moustaches Icon, 1990 |
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| Lenin e Giacometti Meeting two, 1990 |
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| Dollar and Hammer, 1989 |
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| Stalin and Marilyn Monroe at the Table, 1989 |
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| God the Father, Son and Holy Gost, 1989 |
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| Stalin and Marilyn, 1986 |
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| Atom Cocktail, 1986 |
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| Bear on a Tank, 1985 |
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| Red Idol, 1985 |
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| Determining one's Nationality, 1977 |
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| Voting, 1975 |
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| Heart with a Hand Paint, 1975 |
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| Threatening Finger, 1974 |
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| Heart with Transition, 1974 |
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| Shirt, 1973-74 |
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