1982
Born in Moscow, Russia
2003
European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome
2004
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
2011
Masters of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Sanya Kantarovsky: Teachers and Students, Modern Art, Paris
2023
Sanya Kantarovsky: TO PRISON – with selections from Tatsumi Hijikata The Last Butoh, Photographs by Yasuo Kuroda, Nonaka Hill, Los Angeles
Sanya Kantarovsky: After Birth, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto
2022
Sanya Kantarovsky: A Solid House, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Sanya Kantarovksy: Center, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
2021
Sanya Kantarovsky: Recent Faces, Luhring Augustine, New York
Sanya Kantarovsky: The House of the Spider, Modern Art, London
2020
Frozen Dress (Part Three), Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Frozen Dress (Part Two), Luhring Augustine, New York
Frozen Dress (Part One), Modern Art, London
Paradise, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2019
Sanya Kantarovsky: On Them, Luhring Augustine, New York
2018
Sanya Kantarovsky: Disease of the Eyes, Kunsthalle Basel
2017
Sanya Kantarovsky: Letdown, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2016
Feral Neighbours, Modern Art, London
In the Gutter, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
2015
Apricot Juice with Ieva Misčeviūtė, Studio Voltaire, London
Gushers, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
2014
Allergies, Casey Kaplan, New York
Happy Soul, LAXART, Los Angeles
Little Vera with Ella Kruglyanskaya, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
Sanya Kantarovsky, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
2013
Monday's Dirty Light, Altman Siegel, San Francisco
You are Not an Evening, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
2012
Blue Notebook No. 10, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Dear Dilettante, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
2011
Untitled (for Nadja Rusheva), New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
2009
Mutualisms, Alberto Matteo Torri, Milan
2008
Simple Past, BW Space, Berlin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Day for Night: New American Realism, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in collaboration with the Aïshti Foundation, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
Accrochage, Michael Werner Gallery, Athens
Inaugural Exhibition, The Campus, Hudson
Voyage, Maureen Paley, Morena di Luna, Hove
I’m Not Afraid of Ghosts, Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, Grand Canal, Venice
Nine Oils, Francis Irv, New York
Straight, No Chaser, Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga
The Mother Position, Contemporary Fine Arts, Basel
Sanctuary, LC Queisser, Tbilisi
2023
Modern Art, Paris
Soul Mapping, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Artists for Artists Space, New York
The Moth and The Thunderclap, Modern Art, London
Reaching for the Stars: From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
MONOTYPES Edition VFO, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich
Games, Gamblers, and Cartomancers: The New Card Sharps, William Vernon House, Newport Restoration Foundation, Newport
2022
Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon
A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9, David Zwirner, New York
Brave New World: Sixteen Painters for the Twenty-First Century, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle
The History of Forgetting: Daniel Boyd, Aria Dean, Sanya Kantarovsky, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles
Extensions Out: An Exhibition to Benefit Blank Forms, Luhring Augustine, New York
HANGA: Tomoo Gokita and Sanya Kantarovksy, SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong
My Reflection of You, The Perimeter, London
Omelette Papier, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
2021
and I will wear you in my heart of heart, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Before the Cockerel Crows, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
House of Perception, Antenna Space, Shanghai
Hudson House Phase Two, JAG Projects/ Hudson House, New York
Mother and Child, Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco
Plus One, Luhring Augustine, New York
Sanya Kantarovsky and Camille Blatrix: Will-o’-the-wisp, Modern Art
Someone said that the world’s a stage, GRIMM, New York
2020
100 Drawings from Now, Drawing Center, New York
A Beautiful Night for All the People, 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
BED AND CLOCK, MOON AND BEACH: Edvard Munch, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
(Nothing But) Flowers, Karma, New York
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Whitechapel Gallery, London
This Corrosion, Modern Art, London
Infinite Games, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
2019
10 Year Anniversary Show, Altman Siegel, San Francisco
Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London
I’m Made of Water, Rental Gallery, East Hampton
Let Me Tell You a Story, The Arts Club, London
A Seed’s A Star, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm
Taka Ishii Gallery 25th Anniversary Group Exhibition: Survived!, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Wars, David Nolan Gallery, New York
MARABU, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Prints and Editions, Luhring Augustine, New York
2018
ICA Collection: Entangled in the Everyday, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Nightfall, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels
Give Up the Ghost, 13th Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Helen at the Mountain, Tetsuo’s Garage, Nikko
Nothing Will Be As Before: Ten Years of Tanya Leighton, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Résistance: Sanya Kantarovsky and Vincent Gicquel, Galerie Félix Vercel, Paris
2017
EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, National Art School Gallery, Sydney; Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen; Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
La Vie simple – Simplement la vie / Songs of Alienation, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Arles
An Uncanny Likeness, Simon Lee Gallery, New York
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, Jewish Museum, New York
Menagerie: Animals on View, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York
Social Surfaces, Artists Space, New York
The Trick Brain, Aïshti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon
Thinking Out Loud: Notes for an Evolving Collection, The Rachofsky Collection, The Warehouse, Dallas
2016
La Perle, Art : Concept, Paris
A Modest Proposal, Hauser & Wirth, New York
The Eccentrics, Sculpture Center, New York
Giles, Gagosian, Athens
Inaugural Exhibition, Romeo, New York
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan
Repetition, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
SURRREAL, Koenig Galerie, Berlin
Theories of Modern Art, Modern Art, London
Untitled Body Parts, Simone Subal, New York
2015
Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction, White Cube, London
Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
The Funnies, MOT International, Brussels
Over you/you, The 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
Works on Paper, William Arnold, New York
I refuse to participate in failure, Spreez, Munich
2014
Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles
Bard Girls Can Fly, White Flag Projects, St. Louis
Heather Guertin, Sanya Kantarovsky, Viola Yesiltac, Malraux’s Place, New York
Live and Let Die, Modern Art, London
What Were You Expecting, Mr. Milquetoast, a Plot?, Badischer Kunstverein, Karslruhe
2013
10 Years, Wallspace, New York
D, ZweiDrei, Berlin
New Year’s Day Swimmers, Altman Siegel, San Francisco
Notes on Neo Camp, Office Baroque, Antwerp; Studio Voltaire, London
2012
CKTV, Cleopatra’s Inter-City Pavilions Project, 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
Last Laugh, The Company, Los Angeles
Out of The Blue, Bortolami, New York
Phases, Wallspace, New York
Things, Words and Consequences, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2011
3,328 Hours of Sunshine, Clifton Benevento, New York
All that is Unseen, Allan Nederpelt Gallery, Brooklyn
Emerging Artists Exhibition, Los Angeles Initiative at Honor Fraser, Los Angeles
MFA Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center, University of California at Los Angeles
Next Season, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
2009
Lost and Found, New Museum, New York
2008
Disegni, Alberto Matteo Torri, Milan
Supernature, Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle
2007
Reality/Alternation, Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York
2006
Three Painters, Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle
Tiny Vices, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
2005
Los Muertos, Kings County Space, Brooklyn
Sunday Afternoon, Match-Art, New York
Terra Non Firma, Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle
2004
Blacklight City Neon Nation, Red Door Gallery, Providence
Rhode Island School of Design Juried Senior Invitational, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence
Rhode Island School of Design Painting/Printmaking Final Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence
2003
Quattro Giorni, Quaranta Disegni, Palazzetto Cenci, Rome
European Honours Program Fall Show, Palazzetto Cenci, Rome
European Honours Program Spring Show, Palazzetto Cenci, Rome
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2017
Sputterances, Metro Pictures, New York
2015
No Joke, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
2014
Little Vera, co-curated with Ella Kruglyanskaya, Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
2012
Things, Words and Consequences, co-curated with Stas Shuripa, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2014
Artist-in-residence, Monteverdi Tuscany, Tuscany
2012
Acquisitions Award, Art Here and Now (AHAN), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2008
Artist-in-residence, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan
2007
Artist-in-residence, Program, Berlin
2003
German Travel Grant, New York
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Blenheim Art Foundation, Woodstock
Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Chicago
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo
The Courtauld, London
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
David Roberts Art Foundation, London
EMDASH Foundation, Berlin
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Magasin III - Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas
RISD Museum, Providence
Tate, London
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Zabludowicz Collection, London