An outsider of the Eastern European Modernist movement and survivor of Stalin’s intellectual purges in 1930s Ukraine, Borys Kosarev (1897-1994) was a master graphic artist, painter, designer, photographer, and book illustrator. Among his many collaborators were theater director Les Kurbas, poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, and cinema pioneers Alexander Dovzhenko and Sergei Eisenstein.
Professor Myroslava Mudrak is curator of Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkhiv (1915-1931) the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the Ukrainian master. Featuring 82 works on paper and accompanied by a scholarly catalogue, this exhibition is on view at The Ukrainian Museum in New York City from December 4, 2011 until May 2, 2012, and at the Museum of Theatrical, Musical and Cinematic Art of Ukraine in Kyiv, from May 17 until June 12, 2012.
