YEVGENIY YUFIT

Yevgeniy Yufit was born in 1961 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In the early 1980s he began working as a painter and art photographer. In 1985, he set up the first independent film studio in Russia, MZHALALA FILM where he was a founding member of the radical art movement, Necrorealism. MZHALALA FILM produced films that were accepted and viewed at major film festivals including Montreal, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, and Moscow. His film, Papa, Father Frost Is Dead, was awarded the Grand Prix at the Rimini Film Festival in Italy. Yufit's paintings, films, and photographs have been exhibited at major art institutions since 1985, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City; the State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf and Kunstverein, Hannover.

Main Exhibitions

2004	“Trash Resources,” Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, New York, NY, (USA);
2003	32nd International Film Festival, Rotterdam, (Netherlands);
2002	Yale University, Film Retrospective, New Heaven, (USA);
2001	Anthology Film Archives, Film Retrospective, New York, NY, (USA); Pittsburgh University, Film Retrospective,Pittsburgh, (USA);
2000	“After the Wall,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm, (Sweden); Ludwig Museum, Budapest, (Hungary); Hamburger Banhof, Berlin, (Germany);
1999	28th International Film Festival, Rotterdam, (Netherlands); The Museum of Modern Art, Screening of Silverheads, New York, (USA);
1997	Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, “Kabinet”, journal exhibition, (Netherlands); The Museum of Modern Art,“Papa Father Frost is Dead” and “The Wooden Room” New York; The State Russian Museum, The Films and Photographs of Yevgeny Yufit,Saint-Petersburg (Russia);
1996	Harvard Film Archive, screening of “The Wooden Room” Harvard University, (USA);
1995	Berlin Film Academy, screening of “The Wooden Room”, Berlin, (Germany); Film Society of Lincoln Center, films of the Glasnost Era, New York, (USA);

Filmography

2002	Killed by Lightning
1998	Silverheads
1995	The Wooden Room
1994	Will
1991	Papa Father Frost is Dead *
1989	Knights of Heaven
1988	Fortitude
1988	Suicide Monsters
1987	Spring
1985	Woodcutter
1984	Werewolf Orderlies

*awarded Grand Prize, Rimini Film Festival, Italy

Selected Awards

Grand Prix, The Rimini Film Festival, 1994, (Italy);

George Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Grant, St. Petersburg, (Russia);

Hubert Bals Fund Grant, International Film Festival of Rotterdam, (Netherlands);

The Foundation Montecinemaverita Grant, Locarno, (Switzerland);

“Institute PRO ARTE” and The Ford Foundation Grant, St. Petersburg, (Russia);

Selected Permanent Collections

The Museum of Modern Art, (New York , USA);

The State Russian Museum, (St. Petersburg, Russia);

The Netherlands Film Museum, (Amsterdam, Netherlands);