Arsen Savadov is a Ukrainian conceptualist photographer and painter of Armenian descent.^[1][2] Participant of the Ukrainian New Wave.

Biography

Arsen Savadov was born in 1962 in Kiev, to the family of Vladimir Savadov, a book illustrator, originally from Baku, Azerbaijan.^[3] He studied painting at the Shevchenko State Art School. A graduate of the Kiev Art Institute, Savadov lives and works in Kyiv.^[4]

Selected personal exhibitions

• 2017 – Gulliver's dream, Art Ukraine Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2012 – Escape to Egypt, Collection gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2012 – First-person, Pecherskiy Gallery (V-art gallery), Moscow
• 2007 – Paintings. Daniyal Mahmood Gallery. New York
• 2005 – Love Story. Galerie Orel Art Presenta, Paris
• 2003 – Donbass-Chocolate. Galerie Orel Art Presenta, Paris
• 2002 – Kokto. Marat Guelman Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2001 – Book of the Dead. Art Moscow Workshop, Central House of Artist, Moscow
• 1998 – Deepinsider: Arsen Savadov (with Alexander Kharchenko), Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
• 1995 — Arsen Savadov & Georgy Senchenko. House of Artist, Kyiv, Ukraine
• 1995 — Arsen Savadov. Chasie Post Gallery, Atlanta, USA
• 1995 — Keine dressur! (with Georgy Senchenko). Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow
• 1994 — Christmas Action (with Georgy Senchenko). Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow
• 1992 — The works of Savadov & Senchenko. Berman Gallery, New York, USA
• 1991 — Arsen Savadov & Georgy Senchenko. Marat Guelman Gallery at Central House of Artists, Moscow

Selected group exhibitions

• 2017 — Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism, Saatchi Gallery, London
• 2016 — Recycling Religion, WhiteBox, New York
• 2015 — BALAGAN!!! Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places, Curated by David Elliott, MOMENTUM, Berlin
• 2014 — Volta 10, Basel
• 2014 — PREMONITION: UKRAINIAN ART NOW, Saatchi Gallery, London
• 2013 — Days of Ukraine in the United Kingdom, Saatchi Gallery, London
• 2012 — Apocalypse and Renaissance in Chocolate House, branch of the National Museum "Kiyv Art Gallery,"Kiyv. Curated by Oleg Kulik and Kostyantyn Doroshenko.^[5]

Museums^{[citation needed]}

• Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, France
• Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
• Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, Rutgers
• University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
• The Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
• Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia (Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia)
• PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Modern Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway

Collections^{[citation needed]}

• Stephane Janssen Collection, USA
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Pierre Broche Collection, Paris-Moscow
• Collection Igor Markin, Moscow, Russia
• Pinchuk Art Center Collection, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Phillips De Pury Collection
• Bernar Loze Collection (Paris, France)
• Norton Dodge Collection (New Jersey, USA)
• Sir Elton John Collection (London)
• Natalia Ivanova Collection (Moscow, Russia)