
Dasha Shishkin
PETE IS A PRINCE OF A MAN, 23 parts, 30" H x 42" W (76.2 cm H x 106.68 cm W) each, 252" H x 120" W (640.08 cm H x 304.8 cm W) overall
PETE IS A PRINCE OF A MAN, 23 parts, 30" H x 42" W (76.2 cm H x 106.68 cm W) each, 252" H x 120" W (640.08 cm H x 304.8 cm W) overall
Dasha Shishkin
PETE IS A PRINCE OF A MAN, 23 parts, 30" H x 42" W (76.2 cm H x 106.68 cm W) each, 252" H x 120" W (640.08 cm H x 304.8 cm W) overall
Pastel and acrylic on mylar
Installation view, "Dasha Shishkin: erry icket," Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, July 7 - September 8, 2013
PETE IS A PRINCE OF A MAN, 23 parts, 30" H x 42" W (76.2 cm H x 106.68 cm W) each, 252" H x 120" W (640.08 cm H x 304.8 cm W) overall
Pastel and acrylic on mylar
Installation view, "Dasha Shishkin: erry icket," Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, July 7 - September 8, 2013

Dasha Shishkin
Untitled (poop table), 2004
Untitled (poop table), 2004
Dasha Shishkin
Untitled (poop table), 2004
Etching
17 1/2" x 23 1/2"
Untitled (poop table), 2004
Etching
17 1/2" x 23 1/2"

Dasha Shishkin
A Bunch of White Girls, 2004
A Bunch of White Girls, 2004
Dasha Shishkin
A Bunch of White Girls, 2004
Etching and aquatint
39 3/4" x 30 1/2"
A Bunch of White Girls, 2004
Etching and aquatint
39 3/4" x 30 1/2"

Dasha Shiskin
capitalism is hell, people are hell. nature is ugly, not to speak of chicago., 2014
capitalism is hell, people are hell. nature is ugly, not to speak of chicago., 2014
Dasha Shiskin
capitalism is hell, people are hell. nature is ugly, not to speak of chicago., 2014
Graphite, gouache on board
10" H x 8" W (25.4 cm H x 20.32 cm W)
Courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
capitalism is hell, people are hell. nature is ugly, not to speak of chicago., 2014
Graphite, gouache on board
10" H x 8" W (25.4 cm H x 20.32 cm W)
Courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Dasha Shishkin
TBD, 2015
TBD, 2015
Dasha Shishkin
TBD, 2015
Pastel and acrylic on mylar
60" H x 84" W (152.4 cm H x 213.36 cm W)
Courtesy of Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
TBD, 2015
Pastel and acrylic on mylar
60" H x 84" W (152.4 cm H x 213.36 cm W)
Courtesy of Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane
- Lives and works in New York, NY
- 1977
- Born in Moscow, Russia
- 2006
- MFA, Columbia University, New York
- 2001
- New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Selected Exhibitions
- 2018
- "but . . . you’re a horse," Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (Link)
- 2017
- "Tram Pam Pam,” Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO (Link)
- 2014
- "Where there's a wand, there's a way," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
- 2013
- erry icket, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
- Dasha Shishkin: Sammy, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
- 2012
- I Surrender, Dear, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
- 2011
- S Int A Ho, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
- Desaparecido, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
- 2010
- Dap, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
- 2009
- Men Like That, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
- 2007
- Love Sick, Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany
- First Sorrow, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2006
- W.A.M. Who Gives A Damn If You Procreate, Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York, NY
- 2004
- Dasha Shishkin: Drawings and Prints, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
- 2002
- On Mistrust and Suspicion of Children, in General, The New York Society of Etchers, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
- 2018
- "We Never Sleep," Little John Contemporary, New York, NY
- “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder,” LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
- 2017
- “Jillian Mayer, Dasha Shishkin, and Summer Wheat,” Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
- 2016
- “DRAW/Boston,” Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
- 2015
- Surface of Revolution, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
- 2014
- "Word Bites Picture," Design Matters Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- "Vintage Violence," Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
- "One Torino," organized by Organized by Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah, Marta Papini, Italy
- One Torino: Shit and Die, Palazzo Cavour, Torino, Italy, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah, and Marta Papini
- Imaginary Portraits of Prince Igor, Gallery Met, The Metropolitan Opera, New York
- 2012
- Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union: Art from Russia, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
- Idealizing the Imaginary: Invention and Illusion in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
- Dasha Shishkin, Dorota Jurczak, Paula Modersohn-Becker, ph-projects, Berlin
- Whos Been Here, Bukowskis, Stockholm
- 2011
- Monanism, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
- A Room of Her Own, Lu Magnus, New York, NY
- Publisher Spotlight: LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Pace Prints, New York, NY
- Taking the Space: Gender and the Figure in Contemporary Art, Schmidt Center Gallery University Galleries, School of the Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
- 2010
- Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
- Wildly Different Things: New York and Dublin, The Observatory, Dublin, Ireland
- The More I Draw, Museum fr Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
- 2009
- Embrace, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
- A Decade of Contemporary American Printmaking: 1999-2009, Visual Art Center of Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- 1999, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
- 2008
- Once Upon A Time, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
- Drawing Now Drawing Then Young Masters Old Masters, Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Galleria, Alberto Peola Gallery, Turin, Italy
- 2007
- The Four Horsemen, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Turin, Italy
- World Receiver, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
- Panic Room: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece
- Dream & Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Automatic, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
- Responds To My Country, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York, NY A Muzzle of Bees, 33 Bond Gallery, New York, NY
- Re: Generation - Emerging Women Artists, Smack Mellon Brooklyn, NY and The Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
- Summer 2007, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
- 2006
- Hybrid: Anthea Hamilton, Alisa Margolis, Dasha Shishkin, Barbara Wolff, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany. Curated by Eva Karcher.
- HangART-7 Edition 4 - New York Contemporary: Art Times Squared, Hangar-7, Salzburg,Austria
- Goods to Declare, Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Summer 2006, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany Liquid Paper-Pure Land, Ratio 3, San Francisco,
- This is not a Love Song, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
- The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Re: Generation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
- 2005
- Founders Day, Grimm|Rosenfeld, New York, NY
- Gegenwrtige Geschichtenerzhler, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
- Greater New York 2005, PS1, New York, NY
- The ArtReview 25: Emerging US artists, Phillips, de Pury & Co., New York, NY
- Much Madness is Divinest Sense, Cohan+Leslie, New York, NY
- The Parable Show, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich
- 2004
- “After Goya,” curated by Tomas Daniel, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
- "The Day After...” curated by Lital Mehr, Oliver Kamm/5BE, New York, NY
- “Hung, Drawn and Quartered,” curated by Miriam Katzeff, Team Gallery, New York, NY
- Black ChurchPrint Studio, Dublin, Ireland (in association with The New York Society of Etchers)
- GF Gallery New School University, New York, NY
- 2003
- Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery, Williamsburg, New York, NY
- Pearl Gallery, New York, NY
- RSVP, The Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
- 2002
- Naked Duck Gallery, Williamsburg, New York, NY
- North East Prints, William Paterson University, NJ
- 2001
- Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
Bibliography
- 2018
- Jones, Samuel. " At new Neiman Gallery exhibit, psychedelic prints bleed into negative space," Columbia Spectator, October 22 (Link)
- 2017
- Moutinho, Amanda, “The Benevolent Creator,” Boulder Weekly (web), August 31 (Link)
- 2015
- Cattelan, Maurizio and Myriam Ben Salah, Shit and Die, produced by Artissima, Damiani
- 2014
- Ollman, Leah, Review: Dasha Shishkins dive into decadence, Los Angeles Times, November 19 (Link)
- Wagley, Catherine, 5 Artsy Things to Do in LA This Week: Can Witchcraft Be About Self-Realization?, LA Weekly, November 5
- Berardini, Andrew, Close Calls: Turin, ArtForum, November 12
- Sala, Francesco, Torino Updates: dietro Shit and Die, immagini esclusive dal backstage della mostra curate da Maurizio Cattelan per Artissima, Artibune, November 4
- Top 100 Fall Shows: October, Modern Painters, November
- Miranda, Carolina, "Wild women and sci-fi scenarios: painter Dasha Shishkin's crazy world," Los Angeles Times, October 29 (Link)
- 2013
- McCrickard, Kate, Welcome to the Jungle: Violence Behind the Lines in Three Suites of Prints by Dasha Shishkin, Art in Print, Volume 3, No. 4, December - November
- Sorkin, Jenni, Soft and Entitled: On Dasha Shishkin at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, Texte zur Kunst, No. 91, September
- Donelan, Charles, Review: Dasha Shishkin, erry icket, Santa Barbara Independent, July 24
- Nunez-Fernandez, Lupe, Dasha Shishkin, Saatchi Gallery online, June 13
- 2012
- Berkenblit, Ellen, Artists on Artists: Dasha Shishkin, Bomb Magazine, Number 122, Winter
- "Saatchi Gallerys New Exhibition of Contemporary Russian Art", Blouin Artinfo UK, November 12
- Meyers, Todd. Dasha Shishkin, Art papers, May/June
- Berardini, Andrew. Painted with Candy, Washed in Acid: An Elliptical Review, Artslant, May 2
- Ollman, Leah. Figures That the Eye is Drawn To, Los Angeles Times, April 27
- Wagley, Catherine. Rain, Fantasy and Freedom, Daily Serving, April 27
- Exhibition Catalogue, Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, Hamburg, Editionen III. / IV. Quartal
- Nathan, Emily. Dasha Shishkin: S INT N HO, Artnet, April 13
- 2011
- Bronson, Ellie. Puttin the Gore into Phantasmagoria: Dasha Shishkin at Zach Feuer Artcritical.com
- Doran, Anne. Dasha Shishkin: Desaparecido. Time Out New York 26 May
- Halle, Howard. Best of New York Gallery Week. Time Out New York 2 May
- Dasha Shishkin. The New Yorker 30 May
- 2010
- Cashdan, Marina, Modern Painters, April, p. 15-17
- Cheat Sheet: The Hunt. Conde Nast Traveler: The Collectors Edition 2010
- 2009
- Zelem, Lisa. embrace!, Denver Art Museum, Exhibition Catalogue
- Biesenbach, Klaus. Henry Darger Prestel Verlag
- Allsop, Laura. Henry Darger. Art Review December , p.137
- Rosenberg, Karen. Dasha Shishkin. New York Times Friday, October 2
- Saltz, Jerry. A New Kind of Boom. New York Magazine 12 October
- Upcoming Shows: New York. BT: Comme des Garcons, December
- 2008
- Bronfen, Elisabeth and Hilary Hatch, Gerald Matt, Angela Stief, Edelbert Kob. Dream and Trauma,
- Hatje Cantz, Exhibitions Catalogue
- 2007
- Grayson, Kathy. Panic Room: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Works on Paper Collection. Deitch Projects
- Dasha Shishkin. Monopol November, 126
- Dasha Shishkin. Elle March
- Fakray, Sarah. Art: Dasha Shishkin. Dazed and Confused January, p. 36
- 2006
- Saltz, Jerry. The Undead of Art History, The Village Voice, October 11
- Barnyard Desires. The Walrus February
- Subal, Simone. Hangar 7- Project July
- 2005
- UOVO, Turin 2005, pgs 50-71
- Dasha Shishkin, Im Bett ber den Styx, Gegenwrtig. Geschichtenerzhler, Ausst.-Kat.Hamburger Kunsthalle, pg 29
- Biesenbach, Klaus, Greater New York 2005. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Exhibition Catalogue
- Klaas, Heiko. Mottenkiste, Art. Das Kunstmagazin, Nr. 6, Juni 2005, pg 96
- Smith, Roberta. Art in Review, New York Times, August 19
- Vogel, Carol. Talent Call. Hot New Artists Wanted, New York Times, February 3
- Cornell, Lauren. Un-Earthly Delights, Nylon, April 2005, pgs 106-107
- Kunitz, Daniel and Ribas, Joao. Emerging US Artists: Dasha Shishkin, ArtReview, March 2005, pg 114
- 2004
- Harpers Magazine, October
Public Collections
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
- Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
- Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
- The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books
- 2015
- Malbert, Roger, Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson
- Cattelan, Maurizio and Myriam Ben Salah, Shit and Die, produced by Artissima, Damiani
- 2012
- Ozerkov, Dimtri, Gosha Ostretsov, and Lupe Nunez-Fernandez, Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union: New Art From Russia: Saatchi Gallery, The Saatchi Gallery
- Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, Hamburg, Editionen III. / IV. Quartal 2012, Exhibition Catalogue
- Goody, Dick, Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and the Invention in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, pp. 44-47, Exhibition Catalogue
- 2011
- Leader, Karen J, Figured Spaces, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Exhibition Catalogue
- Michael, Linda ed., Love is Nothing but a Sore, Monanism, MONA - Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart Tasmania, Australia, Exhibition Catalogue
- 2010
- Schmidt, Eva, The More I Draw, DuMont Buchverlag, pp. 186 - 189
- 2009
- Zelem, Lisa, embrace! Denver Art Museum, Vol. 1 pp. 114-119, Vol. 2 pp. 124 135, Exhibition Catalogue
- Biesenbach, Klaus, Henry Darger, Prestel Verlag
- 2008
- Bronfen, Elisabeth and Hilary Hatch, Gerald Matt, Angela Stief, Edelbert Kob, Dream and Trauma, Hatje Cantz, Exhibitions Catalogue
- 2007
- Grayson, Kathy, Panic Room: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Works on Paper Collection, Deitch Projects
- 2005
- Biesenbach, Klaus, Greater New York 2005, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Exhibition Catalogue
- Dasha Shishkin, Im Bett ber den Styx, Gegenwrtig. Geschichtenerzhler, Ausst.-Kat.Hamburger Kunsthalle, p. 29, Exhibition Catalogue