MARINA TEMKINA
Poet-Artist
Born in Leningrad in 1948
Emigrated to New York City in 1978
Books:
2011 WHO IS I?, in collaboration with Michel Gerard, edited by James Copeland, Content series, Ugly Duckling Presse,
Brooklyn
2009 What Do You Want, collection of poetry, edited by Matvei Yankelevich,
Ugly Ducking Presse, Brooklyn, New York
2006 MoMA Duomo, artist book in collaboration with Michel Gerard, Richard Meier Publishing, France
2005 Canto Immigranto, selected poem in Russians, New Literary Review, Moscow, Russia
1995 Kalancha, collection of poetry in Russian, Slovo/Word Publishing, New York
1990 Observatoire Geomnesique, trilingual artist book in collaboration with Michel.Gerard, translated in English by Alfred
Corn, Richard Meier Publishing, France
1989 Reverse (V obratnom napravlenii), collection of poetry in Russian, Syntax, Paris, France
1985 A Part of a Part, (Chasti Chast’), collection of poetry in Russian, Syntax, Paris, France
Public Project:
2004 My Solar Battery, Second Street Station, Hoboken, Bergen-Hudson Light Rail, New Jersey Transit
Selected Art and Artist Book Collections:
Judah Magnes Collection, Berkeley University, CA
Columbia University, NYC
Harvard University, Boston, MASS
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Cornell University, NY
Stanford University, CA
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Central Connecticut State University, CT
Ohio State University Library,OH
Tony Zwicker Collection, Chicago Art Institute, MI
Prints and Artists Books Department, New York Public Library, NYC
Artists Books Collection, Bienecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Prints and Graphic Art Department, Minneapolis Museum of Art,
Kolodzei Art Foundation, New Jersey
Francois Barnoud Collection, Dijon, France
Gerald Janachek Collection, KY
One-person and Collaborative Exhibitions:
2011 I Need Angels, solo show, Galerie Francios Barnoud, Dijon, France
2008 L’enfance d’art, poetry wall installation. In: Michel Gerard’s exhibition L’enfance de l’art, Gallery des Ponchettes, Nice,
France; catalogue
Sweet Sixty, multimedia happening, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
2003 Rue de Leningrad, multimedia two artists show with Michel Gerard, Cimaise &Portique, Center departemental d’art
contemporain, Albi, France;
booklet, interview by Alla Efimova
2000 Engagement Time, Florence Lynch Gallery, NYC; review by Susan Tenneriello in: Slavic and East European
Performance, quarterly, CUNY, vol. 20, no. 2, summer 2000; interview with Alla Efimova, PhD, curator, Judah Magnus
Museum. in: Novoe Russkoe Slovo, daily, March 24, 2000
1998 Autographs, drawings and poetry installations, traveling exhibition
Galerie Francios Barnoud, Dijon, France
Florence Lynch Gallery, NYC
Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; review by Milena Orlova in: Kommersant, daily, Moscow, August 7, 1998 A-YA Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
1996 Drawings by a Russian Poet, solo show, ArtNations, Florence Lynch Projects, NYC
Group Exhibitions:
2013 CON/TEXT, LYNCH THAM, New York, NY
2011 Small is Beautiful, Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France
Hermaphrodites, curated by Nikita Vyshnevsky, Invisible Dog Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Astrology, at Liz Zanis, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Salon de Dessines, Carousel de Louvre, Galerie Barnoud, Paris, France
2005 Chicago Art Fair, Galerie Francios Barnoud
2003 Reactions, Exit Art, NYC
2001 Art On Hangers: We Love Our Customers, collaboration with Michel Gerard, Hungarian Consulate, NYC, traveling to
Budapest, Hungary; curated by Robbin Ami Silverberg and Andras Borocz
Art by Russian Women-Artists, The Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Hackensack, NJ, curated by Tatiana Kolodzei
1998 Centre St. Charles, Sorbonne, Paris, France, curated by Florence Lynch, catalogue
1994 "...Sarajevo... Sarajevo... Sarajevo...,”sound track for the Michel Gerard’s sculpture, The Meeting on Sculpture, Euro-
cultural Centre, Delphi, Greece; reviewed by Eleanor Heartney in: "Contemporary Oracles," Art in America,
May, 1995, p. 61
1993 Post-Leninist Crop, collaborative project with Michel Gerard for the traveling group show "Monumental Propaganda"
curated by Komar & Melamid. Exhibited at Courtyard Gallery World Financial Center, NYC; Smithsonian International
Gallery, Ripley Center, Washington, D.C.; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Muckenthaler Art Center, Fullerton, CA;
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, MO; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; Uppsala Kunstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden; Contemporary Art Center,
Copenhagen, Denmark. Catalogue published by Independent Curators, Inc; review and reproduction "Slight
Modifications" by Lawrence Weschler in The New Yorker, 7/12/1993
Awards, Grants, and Residences:
2002 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2001 Ledig-Rohwolt Foundation, Switzerland
2001 Puffin Foundation, NJ
1998 ArtsLink/CEC International Partners
1997 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
1994 National Endowment for the Arts
1989 Pergamon Press Award, Carl Djerassi Foundation, CA
1988 Artist Residence, Carl Djerassi Foundation, CA
Fellowships and Academic Affiliations:
2001 – 2002 Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York
1999 – 2000 Charles Revson Foundation Fellowship On The Future Of New York, Columbia University, New York
1998 – 2000 Transregional Center for Democracy Development, New School for Social Research, New York
1996 –1997 Art in Transition: Eastern and Central Europe, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
1996, summer Gender and Identity in Russian Culture, National Endowment for Humanities, Amherst College, MA
Selected Anthologies:
Two Centuries of Dual Identity: Russian Jewish Writing, ed. M. Shrayer, E.M. Sharp Publishing, CT, 2006
Liberated Ulysses, anthology of Russian poets in Diaspora, ed. Dmitry Kuzmin, New Literary Review, Moscow, Russia, 2005
New Russian Poetry, ed.& translator. Irena Luksic, Biblioteca Knjizevna smotra, Zagreb, Croatia, 1998
Russian Poetry of the Twentieth Century, ed. Evgeny Evtushenko, Moscow, Russia, 1994
Dictionary of Russian Women Writers, ed. Marina Ledkovsky, Greenwood Press, CT, 1994
Poets' Club Anthology, v.1, ed. Boris Vetrov, American-Israel Friendship Society, NYC, 1994
Free Voices in Russian Literature 1950–1980, ed. Alexander Sumerkin, Russica, NYC, 1987
The Blue Lagoon Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry, v. 4, ed. Konstantin Kuzminsky,
Austin State University, TX, 1986
Russian Poets in the West, ed. Alexander Glezer, The Third Wave Publishing, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1986
Selected Lectures and Panel Presentations:
Judah Magnes Collection, Berkeley University
Universities in Constantin, Annaba, Algers, Algeria
Sheffield University, UK
Birmingham University, UK
Barnard College, Columbia University, NYC
New York University, NYC
New School for Social Research, NYC
United Nation International School, NYC
Selected Lectures and Panel Presentations continued:
Drew University, NJ
Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Art, Dijon, France
Ecole des Etudes Slaves, Sorbonne, Paris
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Berkeley University, CA
Austin State University, TX
Blacksburg State University, VA
Selected Poetry Readings and Performances:
2013 Unnameble Book Store, Brooklyn, NY
Museum of Modern Art with UDP group
Blago Bung Performance Festival, Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC
Co-workers Project, Entwine Tapas Bar, NYC
The Judah Magnes Collection of Jewish Art, Berkeley University
2012 Sculpture Center, LIC, NY
Institute Francaise: Constantin, Annaba, Algers, Algeria
2011 Mad Hatters Journal, Cornelia Café, NYC
Chin Music Poetry Café, Brooklyn, NYC
2010 The Kitchen, NYC
Brooklyn Book Festival, NYC
Dixon Place, NYC
Russian Samovar with Elena Fanailova, organized by ArtsLink/CEC International
2009 St. Mark’s Poetry project, NYC
Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, Paris, France
Spiro Ark, London, UK
2008 Brooklyn Book Festival, NYC
2007 Brooklyn Public Library, NYC
2005 International Poetry Biennial, Moscow, Russia
Borei Art Club, St. Petersburg, Russia
2004, May Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
2002, June Bard University/Smolny program, Russian Samovar, NYC
2001, Oct. Bramson ORT Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2001, Jan. "From the Next Book," Russian Poets' Club, Workmen Circle, NYC
2000, June "I love" and other poems, "Reading America" Summer Institute, New School
2000, March “Poetry and War,” Africana Studies Program, Institute of African American Affairs, NYU
1999, Oct. East European Poets, Bohemian National Hall, NYC
1999, Oct. Berkeley University, Slavic Dept., CA
1999, Apr. Eugene Lang College, Faculty Reading, New School for Social Research, NY
1998, Dec. Collective Unconscious, Lower East Side, group reading, NYC
1998, Nov. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1998, Aug. A-Ya Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
“International Poetry” performance, ArtNation Projects, NYC
1997 “International Poetry” performance; "Art in Transition" seminar, Rutgers State University
1996 Art Nation, Florence Lynch Project, NYC
Art in General, NYC
Selected Poetry Readings and Performances continued:
1995 Eastern European Expatriate Club, New York University, NYC
International Poetry Fest, Stevens Technology Institute, Hoboken, NJ
The B'Nai Jeshurum Synagogue, NYC
1994 Komar & Melamid Studio, NYC
Nabokov Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Lurie Gymnasium, St. Petersburg, Russia
St. Petersburg Gender Center, Russia
Free Artists Studio, Moscow, Russia
Library of Zionist Forum, Jerusalem, Israel
"Images from the Other Europe," Festival at Central Connecticut State University, CT
1993 American-Israel Friendship Society, NYC
1990 Poets' House, NYC
1987 Japanese Gallery on 7th Avenue, NYC
BBC Poetry Archive, London, England
1986 "Poets in Exile," National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.
1985 Village Voice Bookstore, Paris, France
1983 "In Defense of Ratushinskaya Case," Endicott Booksellers, NYC
List of publications available upon request (6 pages)
Poet-Artist
Born in Leningrad in 1948
Emigrated to New York City in 1978
Books:
2011 WHO IS I?, in collaboration with Michel Gerard, edited by James Copeland, Content series, Ugly Duckling Presse,
Brooklyn
2009 What Do You Want, collection of poetry, edited by Matvei Yankelevich,
Ugly Ducking Presse, Brooklyn, New York
2006 MoMA Duomo, artist book in collaboration with Michel Gerard, Richard Meier Publishing, France
2005 Canto Immigranto, selected poem in Russians, New Literary Review, Moscow, Russia
1995 Kalancha, collection of poetry in Russian, Slovo/Word Publishing, New York
1990 Observatoire Geomnesique, trilingual artist book in collaboration with Michel.Gerard, translated in English by Alfred
Corn, Richard Meier Publishing, France
1989 Reverse (V obratnom napravlenii), collection of poetry in Russian, Syntax, Paris, France
1985 A Part of a Part, (Chasti Chast’), collection of poetry in Russian, Syntax, Paris, France
Public Project:
2004 My Solar Battery, Second Street Station, Hoboken, Bergen-Hudson Light Rail, New Jersey Transit
Selected Art and Artist Book Collections:
Judah Magnes Collection, Berkeley University, CA
Columbia University, NYC
Harvard University, Boston, MASS
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Cornell University, NY
Stanford University, CA
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Central Connecticut State University, CT
Ohio State University Library,OH
Tony Zwicker Collection, Chicago Art Institute, MI
Prints and Artists Books Department, New York Public Library, NYC
Artists Books Collection, Bienecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Prints and Graphic Art Department, Minneapolis Museum of Art,
Kolodzei Art Foundation, New Jersey
Francois Barnoud Collection, Dijon, France
Gerald Janachek Collection, KY
One-person and Collaborative Exhibitions:
2011 I Need Angels, solo show, Galerie Francios Barnoud, Dijon, France
2008 L’enfance d’art, poetry wall installation. In: Michel Gerard’s exhibition L’enfance de l’art, Gallery des Ponchettes, Nice,
France; catalogue
Sweet Sixty, multimedia happening, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
2003 Rue de Leningrad, multimedia two artists show with Michel Gerard, Cimaise &Portique, Center departemental d’art
contemporain, Albi, France;
booklet, interview by Alla Efimova
2000 Engagement Time, Florence Lynch Gallery, NYC; review by Susan Tenneriello in: Slavic and East European
Performance, quarterly, CUNY, vol. 20, no. 2, summer 2000; interview with Alla Efimova, PhD, curator, Judah Magnus
Museum. in: Novoe Russkoe Slovo, daily, March 24, 2000
1998 Autographs, drawings and poetry installations, traveling exhibition
Galerie Francios Barnoud, Dijon, France
Florence Lynch Gallery, NYC
Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; review by Milena Orlova in: Kommersant, daily, Moscow, August 7, 1998 A-YA Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
1996 Drawings by a Russian Poet, solo show, ArtNations, Florence Lynch Projects, NYC
Group Exhibitions:
2013 CON/TEXT, LYNCH THAM, New York, NY
2011 Small is Beautiful, Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France
Hermaphrodites, curated by Nikita Vyshnevsky, Invisible Dog Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Astrology, at Liz Zanis, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Salon de Dessines, Carousel de Louvre, Galerie Barnoud, Paris, France
2005 Chicago Art Fair, Galerie Francios Barnoud
2003 Reactions, Exit Art, NYC
2001 Art On Hangers: We Love Our Customers, collaboration with Michel Gerard, Hungarian Consulate, NYC, traveling to
Budapest, Hungary; curated by Robbin Ami Silverberg and Andras Borocz
Art by Russian Women-Artists, The Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Hackensack, NJ, curated by Tatiana Kolodzei
1998 Centre St. Charles, Sorbonne, Paris, France, curated by Florence Lynch, catalogue
1994 "...Sarajevo... Sarajevo... Sarajevo...,”sound track for the Michel Gerard’s sculpture, The Meeting on Sculpture, Euro-
cultural Centre, Delphi, Greece; reviewed by Eleanor Heartney in: "Contemporary Oracles," Art in America,
May, 1995, p. 61
1993 Post-Leninist Crop, collaborative project with Michel Gerard for the traveling group show "Monumental Propaganda"
curated by Komar & Melamid. Exhibited at Courtyard Gallery World Financial Center, NYC; Smithsonian International
Gallery, Ripley Center, Washington, D.C.; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Muckenthaler Art Center, Fullerton, CA;
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, MO; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; Uppsala Kunstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden; Contemporary Art Center,
Copenhagen, Denmark. Catalogue published by Independent Curators, Inc; review and reproduction "Slight
Modifications" by Lawrence Weschler in The New Yorker, 7/12/1993
Awards, Grants, and Residences:
2002 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2001 Ledig-Rohwolt Foundation, Switzerland
2001 Puffin Foundation, NJ
1998 ArtsLink/CEC International Partners
1997 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
1994 National Endowment for the Arts
1989 Pergamon Press Award, Carl Djerassi Foundation, CA
1988 Artist Residence, Carl Djerassi Foundation, CA
Fellowships and Academic Affiliations:
2001 – 2002 Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York
1999 – 2000 Charles Revson Foundation Fellowship On The Future Of New York, Columbia University, New York
1998 – 2000 Transregional Center for Democracy Development, New School for Social Research, New York
1996 –1997 Art in Transition: Eastern and Central Europe, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
1996, summer Gender and Identity in Russian Culture, National Endowment for Humanities, Amherst College, MA
Selected Anthologies:
Two Centuries of Dual Identity: Russian Jewish Writing, ed. M. Shrayer, E.M. Sharp Publishing, CT, 2006
Liberated Ulysses, anthology of Russian poets in Diaspora, ed. Dmitry Kuzmin, New Literary Review, Moscow, Russia, 2005
New Russian Poetry, ed.& translator. Irena Luksic, Biblioteca Knjizevna smotra, Zagreb, Croatia, 1998
Russian Poetry of the Twentieth Century, ed. Evgeny Evtushenko, Moscow, Russia, 1994
Dictionary of Russian Women Writers, ed. Marina Ledkovsky, Greenwood Press, CT, 1994
Poets' Club Anthology, v.1, ed. Boris Vetrov, American-Israel Friendship Society, NYC, 1994
Free Voices in Russian Literature 1950–1980, ed. Alexander Sumerkin, Russica, NYC, 1987
The Blue Lagoon Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry, v. 4, ed. Konstantin Kuzminsky,
Austin State University, TX, 1986
Russian Poets in the West, ed. Alexander Glezer, The Third Wave Publishing, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1986
Selected Lectures and Panel Presentations:
Judah Magnes Collection, Berkeley University
Universities in Constantin, Annaba, Algers, Algeria
Sheffield University, UK
Birmingham University, UK
Barnard College, Columbia University, NYC
New York University, NYC
New School for Social Research, NYC
United Nation International School, NYC
Selected Lectures and Panel Presentations continued:
Drew University, NJ
Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Art, Dijon, France
Ecole des Etudes Slaves, Sorbonne, Paris
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Berkeley University, CA
Austin State University, TX
Blacksburg State University, VA
Selected Poetry Readings and Performances:
2013 Unnameble Book Store, Brooklyn, NY
Museum of Modern Art with UDP group
Blago Bung Performance Festival, Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC
Co-workers Project, Entwine Tapas Bar, NYC
The Judah Magnes Collection of Jewish Art, Berkeley University
2012 Sculpture Center, LIC, NY
Institute Francaise: Constantin, Annaba, Algers, Algeria
2011 Mad Hatters Journal, Cornelia Café, NYC
Chin Music Poetry Café, Brooklyn, NYC
2010 The Kitchen, NYC
Brooklyn Book Festival, NYC
Dixon Place, NYC
Russian Samovar with Elena Fanailova, organized by ArtsLink/CEC International
2009 St. Mark’s Poetry project, NYC
Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, Paris, France
Spiro Ark, London, UK
2008 Brooklyn Book Festival, NYC
2007 Brooklyn Public Library, NYC
2005 International Poetry Biennial, Moscow, Russia
Borei Art Club, St. Petersburg, Russia
2004, May Bowery Poetry Club, NYC
2002, June Bard University/Smolny program, Russian Samovar, NYC
2001, Oct. Bramson ORT Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2001, Jan. "From the Next Book," Russian Poets' Club, Workmen Circle, NYC
2000, June "I love" and other poems, "Reading America" Summer Institute, New School
2000, March “Poetry and War,” Africana Studies Program, Institute of African American Affairs, NYU
1999, Oct. East European Poets, Bohemian National Hall, NYC
1999, Oct. Berkeley University, Slavic Dept., CA
1999, Apr. Eugene Lang College, Faculty Reading, New School for Social Research, NY
1998, Dec. Collective Unconscious, Lower East Side, group reading, NYC
1998, Nov. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1998, Aug. A-Ya Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
“International Poetry” performance, ArtNation Projects, NYC
1997 “International Poetry” performance; "Art in Transition" seminar, Rutgers State University
1996 Art Nation, Florence Lynch Project, NYC
Art in General, NYC
Selected Poetry Readings and Performances continued:
1995 Eastern European Expatriate Club, New York University, NYC
International Poetry Fest, Stevens Technology Institute, Hoboken, NJ
The B'Nai Jeshurum Synagogue, NYC
1994 Komar & Melamid Studio, NYC
Nabokov Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Lurie Gymnasium, St. Petersburg, Russia
St. Petersburg Gender Center, Russia
Free Artists Studio, Moscow, Russia
Library of Zionist Forum, Jerusalem, Israel
"Images from the Other Europe," Festival at Central Connecticut State University, CT
1993 American-Israel Friendship Society, NYC
1990 Poets' House, NYC
1987 Japanese Gallery on 7th Avenue, NYC
BBC Poetry Archive, London, England
1986 "Poets in Exile," National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.
1985 Village Voice Bookstore, Paris, France
1983 "In Defense of Ratushinskaya Case," Endicott Booksellers, NYC
List of publications available upon request (6 pages)
