Sergei Isupov (born August 17, 1963) is a ceramic artist born in Stavropol, Russia, now living in Cummington, Massachusetts, United States, and Tallinn, Estonia. He was educated at the Ukrainian State Art School in Kiev and went on to graduate in 1990 from the Art Institute of Tallinn in Estonia with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees in ceramic art. He has since exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions, received numerous awards, and widely collected by museums and private collectors.
Isupov's parents are both artists: his father, Vladimir, is a painter and his mother, Nelli, is a sculptor working in ceramics. His brother, Ilya, is a painter. Sergei emigrated to the United States in 1993.
Solo exhibitions
1993: Mosabaka Gallery, Helsinki, Finland 1993: Vasa Gallery, Falun, Sweden 1995: It all started with tea, Connell Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, United States 1995:Marta Hewett Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States 2003: Ferrin Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts 2007: Ferrin Gallery, Lenox and Pittsfield, Massachusetts 2008: Androgyny, Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts 2009: Androgyny: New Work by Sergei Isupov, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, United States 2009: Androgyny, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona, United States 2010: Firmly Standing, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia 2010: He + She, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, New York 2013: Call of the Wild, Barry Friedman Gallery Ltd., New York, New York 2013: Here and There, HOP Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 2014: Collection Focus: Sergei Isupov, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin 2014: Here and There, International Biennial of the Vallauris Institute, Hôtel de Ville, Vallauris, France 2014: Here and There, solo exhibition, HOP Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia 2014: New Work: Sergei Isupov, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2014: Promenade, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2014: Sergei Isupov, Ferrin Contemporary at Independent Art Projects, North Adams, Massachusetts 2015: Sergei Isupov, Kasher | Potamkin, New York, New York 2016: Head On, de Menil Gallery, Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts 2016: Sergei Isupov: Hidden Messages, Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania 2016: FIREFEST, STARworks, Star, North Carolina 2017: Sergei Isupov: Selections from Hidden Messages, Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, Massachusetts 2018: Directions: Sergei Isupov, Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, Massachusetts 2019 SURREAL PROMENADE: Sergei Isupov, The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota 2022 SERGEI ISUPOV: Past & Present, Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, Massachusetts 2022 Sergei Isupov: Proximal Duality, TurnPark Art Space, West Stockbridge, Massachusetts 2023 Sergei Isupov: Alliances, Thorne Sagendorph Gallery, Keene, New Hampshire 2024 Sergei Isupov: Ancestor, Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts 2025: Moments from Eternity, District Clay Center, Washington, DC
Awards
1991: “Best Young Estonian Artist” (under age 30) by the Union of Artists of Estonia Prize of the Ministry of Culture of Estonia 1993: Director’s Scholarship, six-week residency, International Ceramics Center, Kecskemet, Hungary 1996: Smithsonian Craft Show Top Award for Excellence, Washington, DC 2001: Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award
Collections
de Young Museum, San Francisco, California Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama Tallinn Museum of Applied Art, Estonia Museum of Contemporary Ceramics, Summe, Ukraine Museum fur Angewandte, Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Arizona State University (Art Museum), Tempe, Arizona Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri Sparta Teapot Museum, Sparta, North Carolina Arkansas Arts Center, Littlerock, Arkansas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts Los Angeles County Museum of Art Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, North Carolina Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Estonia The Imperial Center for the Arts & Sciences, Rocky Mount, North Carolina Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Oslo, Norway National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Norwegian Museum of Art, Trondheim, Norway Museum of Arts & Design, New York, New York Museum of International Ceramics, Keckemet, Hungary Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
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