Ilya Kabakov
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Ilya Kabakov, Russian
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 Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в (September 30, 1933), is a Russian-American conceptual artist of Jewish descent, born in Dnipropetrovsk
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, Ukraine
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. He worked for thirty years in Moscow
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, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on Long Island
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. He was named by ArtNews
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 as one of the "ten greatest living artists" in 2000.

Throughout his forty-year plus career, Kabakov has produced a wide range of paintings, drawings, installations, and theoretical texts — not to mention extensive memoirs that track his life from his childhood to the early 1980s.
 
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