--- title: "Komar & Melamid" date: 2017-08-24T13:44:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/komar-melamid" section: Artist Home --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Komar & Melamid ![Komar Melamid Thank You Stalin For Our Happy Childhood 1983](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/2577/Komar-Melamid-Thank-You-Stalin-for-Our-Happy-Childhood-1983.jpg) Komar & Melamid Thank you Stalin for Our Happy Childhood, 1983 Biography Once dubbed “exasperating expatriates” for their relentless, wry mockery of the social, political, and artistic systems of the former Soviet Union, Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid met as art students in Moscow, and teamed up in 1965. They worked together until 2004, creating an outpouring of paintings, sculptures, installations, performances, public projects, photographs, music, and poetry, charged with keen criticisms of Communism, consumerism, the art market, and other human excesses. In 1967, they founded the SOTS Art Movement, a mash-up of Socialist Realism, Dada, Conceptualism, and Pop Art. “If pop-art was born by the overproduction of things and their advertising, then Sots Art was born of the overproduction of ideology and its propaganda, including visual propaganda,” Komar once explained. In 1978, they defected from the USSR and moved to America, where they could freely pursue their subversive vision. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View CV ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/artistCV/km_bio_letterhead_2024-04-02-212234_lkxa.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Packet ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/km_Selected-Press.pdf) Exhibitions [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Burden-Doorway-to-Heaven-1973_2025-08-26-193130_lpzr.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/352-group-exhibition-performance-activist-and-existential-photographs) Sep 2025 – Jan 2026 Group Show [ Performance, Activist, and Existential Photographs ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/352-group-exhibition-performance-activist-and-existential-photographs) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Warhol-Uncle-Sam-1981_drawing-cropped_2024-08-22-220635_oyqs.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/350-group-exhibition-focus-group) Sep 2024 – Jan 2025 Group Show [ Focus Group ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/350-group-exhibition-focus-group) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Warhol-Moonwalk-pink-1987.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/348-group-exhibition-airspace) Oct 2023 – Feb 2024 Group Show [ Airspace ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/348-group-exhibition-airspace) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Group/2017-Art-on-the-Front-Lines/Ayotte-Universal-2017_2.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/329-art-on-the-front-lines-group-5-24-8-18-2017) May 23 – Aug 17, 2017 Group Show [ Art on the Front Lines ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/329-art-on-the-front-lines-group-5-24-8-18-2017) [See All Exhibitions ](/past_exhibitions/komar-melamid) ![Komar Melamid Air Superiority 1997](/assets/artist_images/KM/Komar-Melamid-Air-Superiority-1997.JPG) Komar & Melamid Air Superiority, 1997 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Komar Melamid Air Superiority 1997]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Air Superiority, 1997 ![Komar Melamid The Wings Will Grow 1997]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid The Wings Will Grow, 1997 ![Komar Melamid George Vladmir Isadora And Marcel 1996 97]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid George Vladmir, Isadora and MArcel, 1996-97 ![Komar Melamid Yalta Conference 1984]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Yalta Conference (From a History Book, 1984), 1982 ![Komar Melamid Thirty Years Ago 1953 1982 3]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Thirty Years Ago 1953, 1982-83 ![Km Kruschevs Plot Against Beria 1981 82]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Kruschev's Plot Against Beria, 1981-82 ![Komar Melamid What Is To Be Done 1982 83]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid What Is to Be Done, 1982-83 ![2 Komar And Melamid Olo 1976]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid OLO, 1976 from "A Catalogue of Superobjects - Supercomfort for Superpeople" ![8 Komar And Melamid Model Khaasha 703 1976]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Model KHAASA-703, 1976 from "A Catalogue of Superobjects - Supercomfort for Superpeople" ![14 Komar And Melamid Tirsak 1976]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Tirsak, 1976 from "A Catalogue of Superobjects - Supercomfort for Superpeople" ![Km Post Art No 1 Warhol 1973]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Komar & Melamid Post-ARt No. 1 (Warhol), 1973 ![Komar Melamid Installation View Of South Gallery Rffa 1992 A](/assets/artist_images/KM/Komar-Melamid-Installation-view-of-South-Gallery-RFFA-1992-A.JPG) SEARSTYLE with Psalms, 1992 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Komar Melamid Installation View Of South Gallery Rffa 1992 A]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) SEARSTYLE with Psalms, 1992 installation view ![Komar Melamid Installation View Of South Gallery Rffa 1992 D]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) SEARSTYLE with Psalms, 1992 installation view ![Komar Melamid Installation Shot 1 1987]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings, 1987 installation view ![Komar Melamid Installation Shot 2 1987]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings, 1987 installation view ![Komar Melamid Anarchistic Synthesism Installation Shot 3 1985 86]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Anarchistic Synthesism, 1986 installation view ![Komar Melamid Anarchistic Synthesism Installation Shot 2 1985 86]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Anarchistic Synthesism, 1986 installation view ![Komar Melamid Installation View Of South Gallery Rffa 1992 A](/assets/artist_images/KM/Komar-Melamid-Installation-view-of-South-Gallery-RFFA-1992-A.JPG) ![Komar Melamid Installation View Of South Gallery Rffa 1992 D](/assets/artist_images/KM/Komar-Melamid-Installation-view-of-South-Gallery-RFFA-1992-D.JPG) ![Komar Melamid Installation Shot 1 1987](/assets/artist_images/KM/Komar-Melamid-Installation-Shot-1-1987.JPG) ![Komar Melamid Installation Shot 2 1987](/assets/artist_images/KM/Komar-Melamid-Installation-Shot-2-1987.JPG) ![Komar Melamid Anarchistic Synthesism Installation Shot 3 1985 86](/assets/exhibition_images/Komar-Melamid/Komar-Melamid-Anarchistic-Synthesism-installation-shot-3-1985-86.jpg) ![Komar Melamid Anarchistic Synthesism Installation Shot 2 1985 86](/assets/exhibition_images/Komar-Melamid/Komar-Melamid-Anarchistic-Synthesism-installation-shot-2-1985-86.jpg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Komar Melamid Installation View Of South Gallery Rffa 1992 A]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) SEARSTYLE with Psalms, 1992 installation view ![Komar Melamid Installation View Of South Gallery Rffa 1992 D]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) SEARSTYLE with Psalms, 1992 installation view ![Komar Melamid Installation Shot 1 1987]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings, 1987 installation view ![Komar Melamid Installation Shot 2 1987]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Paintings, 1987 installation view ![Komar Melamid Anarchistic Synthesism Installation Shot 3 1985 86]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Anarchistic Synthesism, 1986 installation view ![Komar Melamid Anarchistic Synthesism Installation Shot 2 1985 86]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Anarchistic Synthesism, 1986 installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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