Oleg Sokolov
(1919, Odessa – 1990, Odessa)
1935-1939 – Graduated from Odessa Art College (teacher T. Fraerman).
1940-1946 – Served in the Red Army; fought in the Great Patriotic War; was seriously injured in 1941.
1947-1948 – Lviv Institute of Decorative and Applied Art.
1948-1951 – Worked at the Odessa Association of Artists .
1949-1951 – Odessa Art College.
From 1955 until his death worked as a researcher; then as the head of exposures in the Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental Art.
Oleg Sokolov was the first artist in Odessa who (by his own works) openly struggled with the doctrine of socrealism.
Since 1961 every Wednesday his personal apartment became an exhibition/concert hall.
Founded the club “Color, Music, The word” and named it after M. Churlionis, who gave education and artistic upbringing to several generations of Odessa intellectualists.
He lived and worked in Odessa.
Solo exhibitions:
2010 – “Kandinsky, Sokolov – always on.” Odessa Museum of Modern Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
2009 – “A warrior and a hero of the culture”. Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
2009 – “Oleg Sokolov.” Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
1964 – Editorial office of the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Iskra”. Odessa, USSR.
1956 – Hall of the Union of Writers. Odessa, USSR.
Selected group exhibitions:
2013 – “Second Collection”. Exhibition of works from the collection of M.Knobel. Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
2013 – “Odessa School. Traditions and Relevance.” Mistetsky Arsenal. Kiev, Ukraine.
2013 – “Odessa School. Traditions and Relevance.” Exhibition hall “Art Donbass”. Donetsk, Ukraine (catalog).
2013 – Apartment Exhibitions “Bebel 19”. NT-Art Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine (catalog).
2013 – Apartment Exhibitions “Bebel 19”. Mistetskiy Arsenal. Kiev, Ukraine. In the framework of the Project IV Fine Art Ukraine (catalog).
2012 – ”Music of the World”. NT-Art Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine (catalog).
2012 – “Music of the World”. Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Odessa, Ukraine (catalog).
2008 – “How young you were… Odessa nonconformist artists. 60s- 80s of the XX century in the collections of Felix Kohriht and Anatoliy Dymchuk.” NT-Art Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine (catalog).
Selected museum collections:
Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine. Kiev, Ukraine.
Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental art. Odessa, Ukraine.
Odessa Museum of Modern Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
Numerous private collections in Ukraine and abroad.