Valera & Natasha Cherkashin
Lectures
Lectures were held in the following institutions:
Valera and Natasha Cherkashin are contemporary artists working with photography, video, digital art, making installations and happenings spanning multiple disciplines. Most recently, their work has been covering issues from fields such as world economics, politics and the environment. They have been working together for over 35 years.
The Cherkashins participated in a number of international art fairs and biennales. Some of the most notable include the AIPAD Photography Show in NY, XVII Encuentros Abiertos Festival De La Luz in Argentina, FotoFest 2012 Biennial in Houston and PhotoEspana in Madrid among others. Among the museums which had acquired their works are the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Additionally, their works have been exhibited at numerous prestigious institutions and museums around the world. In 1999, The Cherkashins organized several unique underwater exhibitions at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC, and at the Olympia Stadium swimming pool in Berlin as well as Underground Wedding in Moscow metro station. Also, they received numerous grants and awards (see CV).
Valera and Natasha currently live and work in Moscow and New York and travel around the world presenting their art and talking about the different stages of the development and evolutions in contemporary art through the prism of their numerous years of experience. They lectured at Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, Columbia University, NYU, the School of Visual Arts in NYC among others.
In the US, they are represented by Alan Klotz Gallery in New York and Gallery Blue Square in Washington DC. For cooperation and inquiries please email us at: cherkashin@metro33.com
University of Maryland, MD
Harvard University, MA
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Columbia University, NY
Princeton University, NJ
New York University, NY
School of Visual Arts, NY
Montclair State University, NJ
Vassar College, NY
Swarthmore College, PA
Dickinson College, PA
Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
University of Southern California, LA, CA
San Francisco State University, CA
Wittenberg University, OH
Parsons School of Design, NY
Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC
Pennsylvania State University
University of Rochester, NY
Cosmos Club, Washington, DC
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Texas Christian University, TX
Art Club, Palm Beach, Florida
The University of Cincinnati. OH
AAASS, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia
The Goldsmith University, London
PhotoEspana, Madrid
Tokyo University, Japan
Moscow State University
"Izvestiya" School of Photography, Moscow
Rodchenko School of Photography, Moscow
State University of Albuquerque, NM
St. Clare's College, Oxford
Wakkanai University, Japan
University of Foreign Languages, Tokyo
State University of Albuquerque, NM
Wakkanai University, Japan
University of Foreign Languages, Tokyo
Tokyo University of Polytechnics, Japan
International House of Japan, Tokyo
Tsukuba University, Japan
University of Bologna, Italy
Russian State University for Humanities
School-Studio of Photo Art, Moscow
School of Moscow MOMA
Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
Museum of Modern Art, Rostov on Don, Russia
American University in Dubai
Intersection, Kara Kurum, Mongolia
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow
School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Hunter College, New York, USA
Photoplay, School of Photography, Moscow
Art Manege, Moscow
Institute of Culture, Moscow
British School of Design, Moscow
Institute of Humanitarian Education and Information Technology, Moscow
Summer program JustDilijanIt, Armenia
Summer program Compyuteria, Tver, Russia
Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow
Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine arts. Russia
Russ Press Foto, Moscow.
The Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow
PhotoKrok 2019 festival, Vitebsk, Belarus
Forum "Tavrida", Sudak, Crimea, Russia 2019.
Museum of the History of the Vitebsk People’s Art School, International Academic Conference Dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of UNOVIS, Belarus.
Multymedia Center "Artplay", 2020, Moscow.
Zariadie Park Mediacenter. Moscow.
Park Gallery, 2021, Moscow.
The Institute of Humanitarian Education 2022, Moscow.
Art Support Foundation "Thursday" 2022, Moscow.
Startup Village Forum, Skolkovo, 2022.
Union of Photo Artists of Russia, Moscow, 2022.
The Béton Center for Visual Culture, 2022, Moscow.