Shimon Okshteyn was born in 1951 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. He showed an obvious talent for art from an early age. He was accepted into the famous Odessa Art Academy in 1970, when he was only 19, and graduated three years later. Okshteyn began exhibiting his work in 1972, while still a student. He had already obtained 20 solo and group exhibitions before emigrating to the United States in 1980.The artist made his first exhibition in the United States in 1981; until his death (2020), he obtained a...

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  Shimon Okshteyn was born in 1951 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. He showed an obvious talent for art from an early age. He was accepted into the famous Odessa Art Academy in 1970, when he was only 19, and graduated three years later. Okshteyn began exhibiting his work in 1972, while still a student. He had already obtained 20 solo and group exhibitions before emigrating to the United States in 1980.
  The artist made his first exhibition in the United States in 1981; until his death (2020), he obtained a solo exhibition almost every year in his adopted country, mainly in New York. Shimon Oksteyn’s imagination is inspired by his new environment and his creativity, combined with his bold use of strong shapes and colors, helps him establish himself in the American art landscape. Okshteyn is a lively and sensitive observer of his environment that he carefully analyzes and absorbs voraciously. 
  In the early 2000s, the artist began to show his work in Russia, presenting «Dialoque With Objects», a retrospective exhibition at the M'ARS Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow and the Russian National Museum in Saint Petersburg, both in 2007. His Russian experience will be followed by «Lost Christmas», at the Triumph Gallery in Moscow in 2011.His favorite themes are consumerism, sexuality and cultural memory. Okshteyn works in a variety of formats, including drawing, sculpture, graphics, installations and mixed media.In 1997, he received the prize of the Dell Arte Contemporanea International Biennial in Florence (Italy).If Shimon Okshteyn’s art has not clung to the past, it makes extensive use of and links to the present historical artistic references, such as elements of the Renaissance, Baroque or social realism, as well as German expressionism; his personal style oscillates between abstraction and figuration. Her practice, inspired by the concept of differences and appropriation, explores the varied relationships between popular culture and fine arts.Shimon Okshteyn died in New York in 2020.
  
  
  

  

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