Aga Ousseinov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan
Lives and works in New York, US since 1991
MFA from V.I.Surikov Fine Arts Institute in Moscow, 1985
Studied at International Center of Photography, New York, 1992-1993
Initially trained as a sculptor, Aga Ousseinov studied photography and video at International Center of Photography after moving to New York City. These additional media gave him the freedom to pursue his investigation in the interaction between individual and cultural narrative structures. His work in particular suggest two self-conscious and conflicting visions of the world: one that is rational and technological, which contrasts another: poetic, imaginary and emotional. Pushing forward established traditions of sculpture, his works are sculptural installations combined with videos, photographs, drawings and collages.
Ousseinov has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Apollo’s Decathlon – The Château de Montsoreau – Museum of Contemporary Art, Montsoreau, France (group show)
2023
DRAW – Point to Point at the Frost Art Museum, Miami FL (group show)
unSEEN: The Unpredictable Forms of Drawing, DOTS Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia (group show)
2022
DRAW – What is Contemporary Drawing and What Can it All Be? at The Museum of Fine Arts/Galerija Umjetnina, Split, Croatia (group show)
“…Bisogna Continuare” at Pietro Finelli Enterprise, Asso, Italy (group show)
2021
Precision: Illustrative Technique in Art and Science | The Art Gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University
“When I pronounce the word silence, I destroy it” at Jason McCoy Gallery | New York (group show)
Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times (group show) at Jason McCoy Gallery | New York
2020
MORE TIME LESS (group show) at Cathouse Proper | Brooklyn NY
Drawn: Concept and Craft at SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art) | Winston-Salem NC
Fantastic Voyage (group show) at Peter Piper Picture | Red Hook, Brooklyn NY
Still Utopia: Island (group show) at Gallery MC | New York
Celestography (solo) at 53rd Street Library, NYPL | New York
2019
Still Utopia (group show) at Circolo Ricreativo Culturale 3 Agosto | Venice Italy
Exit 2019 (group show) at Chungbuk Cultural Foundation | Chungbuk S.Korea
Exit 2019, Gallery MC | NYC
Light Year 49: 8 Attempts to Exhaust [the poetics of] a Place | Curated by Simonetta Moro | Video Art Exhibition projected onto Manhattan Bridge | DUMBO NY
Carte Segrete at Spazio Arte Bejaflor – Portogruaro, Italy
1Ensemble at Cathouse Proper/524 Projects – Brooklyn NY
2018
BB8 after BB8
CAC/Art Center – Landskrona, Sweden
Complicated Territory (group show) – Gallery MC, NYC
Art Theorema – Imago Mundi Highlights
Gallerie delle Prigione – Treviso, Italy
Edit Your Future
The 8th edition of Bucharest Biennale, Romania
Cosmetic Solutions (group show)
@ 471 Van Brunt Studios, New York
Exit 2018: The 9th Door (group show)
Gallery MC, New York
2017
WBAI Benefit Exhibit/Action
curated by Jim Wintner
Chesterfield Gallery, New York
Out of the Studio, Gallery MC, New York
2016
The Naturalist
Site Specific Installation at Hermes on Madison Avenue, NYC
The Naturalist III
Site Specific Installation at Hermes in Beverly Hills, CA
2015
Spring Break (group show)
Red Hook Studios ⋅ Brooklyn, NY
Antidote
Mykonos Biennale 2015, Cyclades, Greece
Winter salon 2015
Group show, Gallery MC, New York
2014
Le Show Des Amis
Show Room Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Portraits/Summer Group Show
Christopher Henry Gallery, New York
Above and Beyond
Mykonos Biennale at Galerie Vanessa Quang
Paris, France
Drawn Out
Red Hook Studios ⋅ Brooklyn,NY
Self-Portrait While Scuba Diving
MANA Exposition at MANA Contemporary
Jersey City, New Jersey
Marker
curated by Slavs and Tatars
at Art Dubai 2014
The Art of Fishing
The Museum of Ethnography, Tomsk, Russia
Fly to Baku
curated by Herve Mikaeloff
H.Aliyev Foundation, Baku, Azerbaijan
2013
“Ice Cold War” (solo)
Christopher Henry Gallery, New York
MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps
BRAC (Bronx River Art Center) NY
“Crisis and Paganism”
Mykonos Biennale
Island of Mykonos, Greece
“BULLSEYE”
Group Show at Red Hook Studios
Brooklyn, New York
Fly to Baku
Curated by Herve Mikaeloff
MAXXI, Rome Italy
MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps
Curated by Yulia Tikhonova
AIGA Philadelphia SPACE, Philadelphia PA
Smith Studio
Parade Ground Gallery, New York
Fly to Baku
Curated by Herve Mikaeloff
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2012
WBAI Benefit Art Action
curated by J.Wintner
Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
OilScapes
curated by J.Stewart and Z.Azizov
PEACOCK Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland UK
MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps
curated by Y.Tikhonova
NYPL, New York NY
The Kite and The Impossible Globe (solo)
YARAT Contemporary Art Space
Baku, Azerbaijan
Spring Benefit 2012
White Box Gallery, New York
Merging Bridges (group show)
Museum of Modern Art, Baku
BRUCENNIAL 2012
Curated by The Bruce High Quality Foundation & Vito Schnabel
New York
Fly to Baku II (group show)
Hotel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris
Fly to Baku
Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan,
PHILIPS de Pury & Company, London
READ
Group show, Gallery MC
New York
2011
ILLUMInazioni
54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Benzon, Venice, Italy.
“1911”
(with Bianca Sforni, Ron Gorchov, James Hyde)
Christopher Henry Gallery, New York
Postcards to North Brooklyn,
Arts@Renaissance, New York
So Zik !
Ober Gallery, Kent, CT
2010
“In the Middle of Erewhon” /solo/
Christopher Henry Gallery, New York
Art Basel/Miami
Christopher Henry Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
USSR-Remix
Tou Scene, Center for Contemporary Art
Stavanger, Norway (catalogue)
Brucennial 2010, Miseducation
New York, NY
Work on Paper, International Art Salon 2010, Krimsky Val, Moscow, Russia
Observers of the Flight, Museum of Modern Art, Baku, Azerbaijan
Gallery Selections, Ober Gallery
Kent, CT
2009
“Alternative Methods of Flying”, Installation at Hermes
Madison Ave & E 62 Street, New York
4th International Biennial of Contemporary Art
Baku, Azerbaijan
“The Map as Art” , curated by K.Harmon and C.Henry
Christopher Henry Gallery, New York
“Kuf/Mold 2009”, curated by KOOH
Oud Charlois, Rotterdam, Netherlands (catalogue)
“Fall Group Show”, Christopher Henry Gallery
“Smithumenta”, R.Smith Studio, Brooklyn New York
curated by Bruce High Quality Foundation
“Lo Sguardo Obliquo”, Spazio Tadini, Milan, Italy
(catalogue)
“Self Portrait in Bathyscaphe and Other Loosely Connected Stories” /solo/
Christopher Henry Gallery, New York
“Grand Tour II”, Gallery MC, New York
“Grafika” Rajko Mamuzic Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia,(catalogue)
2008
“Religion Based Initiative”, Gallery MC, New York
“Alternative Flying Method” , /solo/ Gallery MC, New York
“Steps of Time” Residenzschloss, Drezden, Germany
(catalogue)
“USSR-REMIX”,
Center for Contemporary Arts, Baku, Azerbaijan
(catalogue)
2007
“Scope” New York, Christopher Henry Gallery
“Off the Wall” Gallery MC, New York
“Wu Tang/googolplex”, Gavin Brown@passerby, New York,
curated by Darren Bader
2006
“Inventions” Installation at the Windows ofHermés,
Madison Ave, New York
“No Justice Without Life”, Palazzo Leopardi, Rome, Italy
“Caspian Dreams”, /solo/ Dinter Fine Art, New York
“Drawn”, Dinter Fine Art, New York
“Scope” Hamptons, Dinter Fine Art
2005
“MUD”, Dinter Fine Art, New York
“Grand Tour”, Gallery MC, New York
“Works on Paper”, Gallery MC, New York
“Some Papers”, Polytechnic of Milano, Italy (catalog)
2004
“Aga Ousseinov: Sculptures”, Gallery MC, New York (catalog)
