Alina Bliumis

Born in 1972 in Minsk, Belarus
Lives and works in New York, USA



Presentation


Education
1996-99    BFA, The School of Visual Arts, New York, US

2005           Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy,
                    With Professor Alfredo Jaar.


Residencies
2023     Tryfon Art Residency, Lesbos, Greece
2013      Ammirato Culture House, Lecce, Italy
             Inside-Out Art Museum (IOAM), Beijing, China
2009      Black and White Project Space, Brooklyn, New York, US
2005     Quartier 21, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria


Grants and Fellowships
2016    Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York, USA
2014    Genesis Grant, Genesis Philanthropy Group, New York, USA
2011     Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York, USA
              Blue Print Fellowship, New York, USA
              Franklin Furnace Fund, New York, USA
2009    Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, USA 
              Six Points Fellowship, New York, USA
2008    Art in Public Spaces Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,
              New York, USA
              Strategic Opportunity Stipend, New York
              Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA
              Puffin Foundation Grant, Teaneck, USA
2005    Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, USA


Private and public collections
MAC VAL - Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France
Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel
The Saatchi Collection, UK
The Harvard Business School, USA
The National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, USA
Missoni Collection, Italy

ALINA BLIUMIS (b. Minsk, Belarus) is New York-based artist who received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 1999 and a diploma from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy in 2005.

She has exhibited at SITUATIONS, NYC; the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France; the First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Busan Biennale, South Korea; Tokyo Biennial, JP; Assab One, Milan, Italy; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris; Centre d’art Contemporain, Meymac, France; The James Gallery, The Graduate Center CUNY, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Museums of Bat Yam, Israel; The Jewish Museum, NYC; The Saatchi Gallery, London; Botanique Museum, Brussels; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and MAC VAL/Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France. 

Her works are in various private and public collections, including MAC VAL - Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France; Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia; Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel; The Saatchi Collection, UK; The Harvard Business School, USA; The National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia; and Missoni Collection, Italy. 

Bliumis work has been reviewed in Artforum, NYTimes, ART - Das Kunstmagazin, ARTNews, Wall Street Journal and Hyperallergic.

Solo shows at Ceysson Gallery
Alina Bliumis, New York
March 21 - April 27, 2024


Solo shows

2023
Studio Visit, Artist Spotlight curated by Ambre Kelly + Andrew Gori, SpringBreak Art Show, NYC
Plant Parenthood, Höfuðstöðin Art Center, Reykjavik, Iceland
Plant Parenthood, Situations, NY, USA
A:rray and D:isplay, A:D: Curatorial, Berlin, Germany, curator Irena Popiashvili

2022
Carrying the Weight, War Landscapes, The Opening Gallery, NY, USA, curator Sozita Goudouna
Borders and Bruises, Anna Zorina Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2021
The Camouflage of Laughter, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC; curator Melissa Ragona
Carrying the Weight, War Landscapes, Willbees, NY
A Painting For A Family Dinner, Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan
Imagination Nation, Elma, NY

2020
Narrating Against the Grain, Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia; with Tanja Muravskaja, curator Corina L. Apostol
Masses, Drawing Now, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Masses, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, USA; curator Elizabeth M Grady

2019
Classification Patterns: Christian, Muhammad, Lee, “Y” Gallery of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus; curator Irena Popiashvili
On the Land of Eagles, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Poems without Borders, Project Statement, Parallel, Vienna, Austria
Nations Unleashed, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, USA; curator Ksenia Nouril

2018
Political Animals, Aperto Raum, Berlin, Germany
Political Animals, Aperto Room, St.Petersburg, Russia
Amateur Bird Watching at Passport Control, Pushkin House, London, UK; curator Elena Zaytseva
Cultural Tips For New Americans Under Trump, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, USA; curator Ksenia M. Soboleva

2016
Cultural Tips For New Americans, Popiashvili Gvaberidze Window Project, Tbilisi, Georgia
Recent Works, Bushel, Delhi, NY, US

2014
Thank You Paintings Exchange, Denny Gallery, New York, USA
Casual Conversations, The Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, New York, USA

2013
Which country is the best to move to? Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
A Painting For A Family Dinner / Lecce, Italy, Ammirato Culture House (ACH), Lecce, Italy
A Painting For A Family Dinner / Beijing, China, Inside-Out Art Museum Artist-in -Residency, Beijing, China

2012
Cultural Tips Takeaway, Toomer Labzda Gallery, New York, New York
Language Barrier and Other Obstacles, Peacock Visual Arts, Center For Contemporary Art, Aberdeen, UK
A Painting For A Family Dinner / Bronx, NoLongerEmpty, documentation at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, USA
Casual Conversations, National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, USA

2011
Cultural Tips For New Americans, NoLongerEmpty, Ideas City Festival - New Museum, New York, USA
Global Reach Inc. Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA

2010
Cultural Tips For New Americans, Stanislas Bourgain Galerie, Paris, France

2009
Casual Conversations in Brooklyn, Black and White Project Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2008
A Painting For A Family Dinner / Bat Yam, Israel, Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel.
Dam Lines, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA (catalog)
Language Barrier / Lower Manhattan, public art project, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
Language Barrier–Yellow Pages, Stanislas Bourgain Galerie, Paris, France
Hello, USA? Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow, Russia (catalog); curator Andrei Parshikov
Language Barrier, Pulse, New York, USA

2005
Cloning Factory, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria




Group shows

2024
Wonderland, Aicon Gallery, NY, USA, curated by Elizabeth Denny and Katie Alice Fitz Gerald
Holding: Kates-Ferri Projectsa, NY, USA, curated by Anna Khimasia / Abrons Arts Center Curatorial AIRspace Resident
The Stone Age, Bienvenu Steinberg & J. NY, USA

2023
Les Fleurs du Mal, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France, curated by Hervé Mikaeloff
Tree Studies, Tryfon Art Residency, Lesbos, Greece
Gathering, Corner Gallery, Andes, NY, USA, curated by Anne Couillaud
Supra Nature, Gallery Anne De Villepoix, Paris
Toward and Away, Bushel, Delhi, NY
Treasures From Hell, Snow Gallery, NY, USA. curated by Caroline Snow and Frank Haines
After the End, NADA curated by Catherine Taft, NY, USA

2022
Collective Brain, The Opening Gallery, NY, USA, curator Sozita Goudouna
Impressions of the Flowers Themselves, SpringBreak, NY, USA, curators: Chiara Mannarino, Francesca Pessarelli
The Naked Lust, Willbees, Andes, NY, USA, curator: DJ Hellerman
Between Text and Textile, Bienvenu Steinberg & J, NY, USA
Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, NY, USA
Cultural Tips For New Amricans, Occupy Art Project, The French Consulate, NY, USA; curator: Sozita Goudouna
Sollazzo Ottico. Galleria D'Arte Roccatre, Torino, Itally; curators: Filippo Fossati and Alessandro Toppino

2021
To Scatter or Row: Diaspora in Contemporary Art Curated by Elizabeth Hoy, Beard & Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Arts, Wheaton College
What Makes Another World Possible? Tallina Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia; curator: Corina L. Apostol,
Belarus - Screams of the Silenced, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, The Netherlands

2020
Touchable Disctance, “Y” Gallery of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus
Belarus Art of Resistance, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Nations Unleashed, A: D: Projects, Berlin, Germany
Masses, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow, Russia

2019
Persona Grata, MAC VAL, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France; curators Anne-Laure Flacelière and Isabelle Renard
Cosmopolitics, Comradeship, and the Commons, Suoja/Shelter festival, Helsinki, Finland, curators Corina L. Apostol, Ksenia Yurkova and Anastasia Vepreva.

2018
Persona Grata, Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France, curator Anne-Laure Flacelière and Isabelle Renard
Project Statement, Parallel Vienna; curator Maria Kalinina
PRO____BEL, Belarussian Art Abroad, Villa Sokrates Foundation, Krynki, Poland; curator Andrei Dureika
Babble, Gallery CA Baltimore, MD, US; curator Yuzhuo Mark Zhang

2017
Ernst, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Amateur Bird Watching At Passport Control, Popiashvili Gvaberidze Window Project, Viennacontemporary, Vienna, Austria

2016
Now to remember the future is not possible?, Fest I Nova, Garikula, Georgia, curator Nutsa Chikvaidze
The Lives of Forms, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, USA; curator Ksenia Nouril
Making Continuity Contemporary: Eastern Europe in New York, Derfner Judaica Museum, Bronx, NY
The Bronx Speaks Our Home, Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, NY; curator Sarah Corona

2015
DEAD: A Celebration Of Mortality, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art, James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, NY, USA; curator Boris Groys

2014
NASS BELGICA L’immigration marocaine en Belgique, Botanique Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Time::Code, Whitebox Art Center, New York, USA

2013
Unhinged, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2012
This Side of Paradise, NoLongerEmpty, Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx, New York, USA
Foreign Bodies, Barbur, Jerusalem, Israel; curator Yevgeniya Baras
Generation One and a Half, Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, USA; curator Yulia Tikhonova
Civil Disobedience Festival, De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; curator Tania Volkova
Foreign Bodies, Set Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA; curator Yevgeniya Baras

2011
Media Impact. International Festival Of Activist Art, the Fourth Moscow Biennale, Russia (catalog); ; curator Tania Volkova
About Face, NoLongerEmpty, Festival of Ideas for a New City, New Museum New York, USA
Electrica, Instituto Cervantes, New York, USA

2010
New Acquisition, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Artistes russes: Un art au superlatif, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
Now We Are Six, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA

2009
American Dream / Be Happy, Pulse Miami Installation Program, USA
Frozen Reality, Holster Projects, London, UK
No Longer Empty, Chelsea Hotel, New York, USA
The Situation, Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (catalog); curator Elizabeth M. Grady
Ultra-New Materiality, Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (catalog); curator Andrey Parshikov

2008
Moby Hosting, Bat-Yam Museum, Bat-Yam, Israel (catalog); curators Milana Gitzin-Adiram and Leah Abir
Off The Wall: Artists At Work, Jewish Museum, New York, USA; curator Andrew Ingall
Moscow - New York = Parallel Play, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
A Matter of Time, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA

2007
MOCA Mix film, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
Left Pop, Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia (catalog); curators Diana Baldon, Georgina Jackson, Nicola Lees
Media Image and Unconscious, the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Victory Over The Sun, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia (catalog); curator Vitaly Patsukov

2006
Making Love to My Ego, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, England
Refuge, Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea (catalog); curator Yun Cheagab
Out Of Paint, Kuhn Gallery, Ohio State University, Marion, USA
Unauthorized Access, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Aesthetics of Resistance, Assab One, Milan, Italy (catalog); curator Roberto Pinto
Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, USA; curator Elena Sorokina
Korperchen, Veranstalter Medienwerkstatt, Vienna, Austria

2005
Russia Redux #1, Schroeder Romero Gallery, New York, USA;; curator Elena Sorokina
Aesthetics of Resistance, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy (catalog); curator Roberto Pinto
Post-Diasporas: Voyages and Missions, the First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia (catalog); curator Olga Kopenkina

2004
Symbols of The Big Bang, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, USA
Bibliography

Monographs

2019
Alina Bliumis Most of Us Are, artist book
Alina Bliumis Poems Without Borders, artist book

2015
Alina and Jeff Bliumis, From Selfie to Groupie, Text by Joshua Ellison (editor), David Shneer, Anya Ulinich, Jenya Gorbatsevich and Konrad Bercovici, Published by Genesis Philanthropy Group

2011
Alina and Jeff Bliumis, Cultural Tips For New Americans, artist Book

2008
Alina and Jeff Bliumis, Dam Lines, Text by Elizabeth M. Grady, Published by Andrea Meislin Gallery

2007
Alina and Jeff Bliumis, Receiving the Stranger, Text by Adam Kleinman, Aniko Erdosi, Nicola Lees and Georgina Jackson, Roberto Pinto, Gerald Janecek, Sylvia Grace Borda and Elisa Tjin, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Vitaly Patsyukov, and Yulia Tikhonova, Published by CheckOffArtPress




Books and Catalogs

2022
Art and Climate Change (World of Art), Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes, Thames & Hudson

2020
SLAVS AND TATARS Crack Up – Crack Down – The 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Published by Mousse Publishing, 2020

2015
Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art, Texts by Boris Groys, Catherine Carl, Brian Kuan Wood, Published by e-flux and James Gallery, The Graduate Center CUNY

2013
EmergencyIndex, Ugly Duckling Presse

2012
EmergencyIndex, Ugly Duckling Presse
Media Impact. International Festival Of Activist Art, Published by ZKM Institute for Visual Media

2011
Political Art and Activism, Art & Agenda, Texts by R. Klanten, M. Hubner, A. Bieber, P. Alonzo, G. Jansen, Published by Gestalten

2009
Ultra-New Materiality, Text by Caroline Bourgeois, 3rd Moscow Biennale catalog of parallel program

2008
Shape Of Things To Come: New Sculpture, Text by Meghan Dailey, Published by Rizzoli
Hello, USA? Text by Andrey Parshikov, Published by Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow, Russia

2007
MoBY Hosting, Text by Milana Gitzin-Adiram and Leah Abir, Published by MoBY, Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel
Left Pop, Text by Nicola Lees and Georgina Jackson, 2nd Moscow Biennale catalog of parallel program
Victory Over The Sun, Text by Vitaly Patshukov, Published by the National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia

2006
Busan Biennale catalog
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Text by Roberto Pinto and Anna Daneri, Published by Ratti Foundation

2005
Post Diaspora, Text by Olga Kopenkina, 1st Moscow Biennale catalog of parallel program