Visiting artist and scholar lecture series | Yevgeniy Fiks

March 18 | 10 a.m. | ASU Art Museum

Yevgeniy Fiks is a Moscow-born New York-based artist, author and organizer of art exhibitions. Among his projects are “A Gift to Birobidzhan,” “Landscapes of the Jewish Autonomous Region” and “Himl un erd (Yiddish Cosmos)” that have been exhibited at 2B Galeria, Budapest; Galerie Sator, Paris; 21ST.PROJECTS/Critical Practices Inc., New York; and CCI Fabrica, Moscow. Fiks’s performance pieces “Lily Golden,” “Harry Haywood,” “Langston Hughes,” “Yelena Khanga,” “Claude McKay,” “Paul Robeson,” “Robert Robinson on Soviet Jews” and “Red Kaddish” have been performed at the International Print Center New York and the Museum at Eldridge Street/A Landmark Synagogue Story, both in New York. Fiks’s curatorial projects include “The Wayland Rudd Collection” at Winkelman Gallery, New York and First Floor Gallery Harare, Harare, Zimbabwe; “In Edenia, a City of the Future” at Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine (with Larissa Babij); “Monument to Cold War Victory” at The Cooper Union, New York (with Stamatina Gregory); and “Yiddishland Pavilion,” Venice, Italy (with Maria Veits). Fiks is the author of the programmatic essay “Yiddish Contemporary Art” that has appeared in Yiddish, English, Russian, Hungarian, Belarusian, Polish and Slovak.

Image from the artist’s Instagram.