Mikhail Turovsky (born 1933 , Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) - Soviet, American artist and writer - aphorist of Ukrainian origin; National artist and member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Lives in New York since 1979 . People's Artist of Ukraine (2008) [1] , member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine [2] .
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| Place of Birth | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR , USSR |
| Citizenship |  USSR →  USA |
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Biography
Mikhail Turovsky was born in 1933 in Kiev. At the beginning of World War II (in July 1941), his father volunteered for the front and died in 1943. Mikhail Turovsky was evacuated to Samarkand with his mother and older brother Anatoly (later a sculptor).
In Samarkand, Turovsky entered the art school at the Leningrad Academy, which was evacuated there. Among his classmates was Ilya Kabakov (later - a conceptual artist). After returning from evacuation, he studied at the Kiev Republican Art School and the Kiev Art Institute, where he was a student of Tatyana Yablonskaya.
Brother - Anatoly Saulovich Turovsky (born 1926), sculptor, writer.
Bibliography
- Chelsea Art Museum Exhibition Catalog (introductory essay by Serge Lenczner, NYC, USA)
- NOMI (Noviy Mir Iskusstva 4/45/2005, "Large Bodies: Great Success" by Serge Hollerbach, St. Petersburg, Russia)
- Monograph "MIKHAIL TUROVSKY" (Introductory article by Xavier Xuriguera, text by Serge Lenczner), Editions Sauveur Attard, France
- Catalog for the retrospective exhibition at the National Art Museum of Ukraine, articles by Robert Morgan, Greg Kopelyan, Dmytro Horbachov)