Alexander Sliussarev

Alexander Alexanderovitch Sliussarev (9 October 1944, Moscow — 23 April 2010, Moscow) was a Russian photographer and translator from Italian.

Alexander Sliussarev was born in 1944 in Moscow, Russia. He started taking pictures in 1958 with his first camera “Yunost”, received as a gift from his father. In 1962, he participated in “Nasha Yunost” (English: “Our Youth”) exhibition in the Gorky Park in Moscow. Alexander Sliussarev graduated from Maurice Thorez Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages as a professional translator from Italian. During his career as a translator he worked with Gianni Rodari, Marcello Argilli and many others. In 1979 he had his first personal exhibition at the Baltic photo festival in Ogre, Latvia. From 1974 to 1984 he created a series of black and white minimalistic “squares” taken with a Rolleiflex camera, which made the photographer famous among fellow photographers and curators. Since 1980 he had numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad. He continued his photographic work and published his photographs in his blog almost every day, until his last day in April 2010. Alexander Sliussarev had been a member of the Direct Photography (Russian: «Непосредственная фотография») group since 1987. He also was a member of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia.

Personal exhibitions

1979–1980 «Alexander Sliussarev», festival Dzintarzeme («Amber land») in Ogre, exhibition’s tour: Riga, Tallinn, Kaunas

1980 «Alexander Sliussarev», exhibition in ZNUI (Russian: Заочный народный университет искусств)

1983 «Alexander Sliussarev», exhibition in «Soviet Photo» magazine’s office, Moscow

1984 «Alexander Sliussarev», Krasnogorsk

1987 «Alexander Sliussarev», Moscow

1987 «Alexander Sliussarev», Yoshkar-Ola

1990 «Alexander Sliussarev», Aix-en-Provence

1991 «Alexander Sliussarev», Amsterdam

1994 «Alexander Sliussarev», Central House of Artist, Moscow

1995 «Alexander Sliussarev», exhibition in the gallery «Fotogalerie», Berlin

1995 «Alexander Sliussarev», gallery «Volga», Kazan

1995 «Alexander Sliussarev», photoClub, Yoshkar-Ola

2004 «Alexander Sliussarev, poSLEDSTVIA», photoprogram «24»

2004 «Alexander Sliussarev» in «Classics of Russian Photography», Moscow House of Photography.

2005 «Impressions», Exposition of two authors — Yedyge Niyazov and Alexander Sliussarev, gallery «Ular», Almaty

2006 «Alexander Sliussarev, 80s», exposition of B&W square images «Photosoiuz» gallery

2006 «Alexander Sliussarev, Transdecadens», photo gallery «GLAZ»

2007 «Alexander Sliussarev, Everything», photo gallery «GLAZ»

2009 «Delusive Magic: Black and White», ROSPHOTO, Saint Petersburg

2012 Alexander Sliusarev, Retrospective. Part 1

Photographs in museums and private collections

• The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Museet for Fotokunst (MFF in Danish) / The Museum of Photographic Art, Odense, Denmark
• Harry Ransom Center, UT, Austin, USA
• New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, US
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art
• Мultimedia Art Museum, Moscow
• ROSPHOTO Museum and Exhibition Centre
• Museum of Actual Art ART4.RU
• Latvijas Fotogrāfijas muzejs, Rīga, Latvia
• Lietuvos fotografijos muziejus, Šiauliai, Lithuania