Biography, Exhibitions
Biography and exhibitions of Ilya Tabenkin
Biography. Exhibitions
November 15, 1914
Born in Mozyr, Belarus
1932 (?) — 1934
Studying at the Moscow Art School in memory of 1905 under M.K. Sokolova
1934-1942
3 years in camps (Kazakhstan) and 5 years in exile (Kazakhstan, Bashkiria) for handing over paints to an arrested comrade
1942-1949
Studying at the Moscow Art Institute. IN AND. Surikov at I.E. Grabar
1951
Joining the Union of Artists of the USSR
1950s — first half of 1970s
Work on the orders of the Artistic Combine (the Painterly Art Combine of the Moscow City Organization of the Art Fund of the RSFSR)
1968, 1975, 1985
Participation in exhibitions of the «Group of Sixteen» (Moscow)
1979
Joint exhibition of I.L. Tabenkin and S.M. Mirenskoy (Moscow)
1983
Personal exhibition (Vilnius)
1988
The works of I.L. Tabenkina participated in the Moscow auction «Sotheby’s»
December 11, 1988
Died in Moscow
Later exhibitions
1991
Ilya Tabenkin. Gallery Today, Moscow
2014
Ilya Tabenkin. Exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth. Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
2016
Ilya Tabenkin. Exhibition at the Ryazan Regional Art Museum
2018
Spirit victory. Ilya Tabenkin. Gallery «Open Club», Moscow
2019-2020
«From sand and clay…» Exhibition of works by Ilya Tabenkin. Zurab Tsereteli Gallery, Russian Academy of Arts
Museum collections
The works are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, more than 20 regional museums in Russia, as well as in the largest domestic and foreign private collections and museums: The Museum of Russian Art MORA, Kolodzey Art Foundation (Highland Park, New Jersey, USA).