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Konstantin Bokov

New York

1992

Born in 1940 in Shostka, Ukraine, Konstantin Bokov immigrated to New York City in 1974. Bokov shares his whimsical style and endless imagination with New Yorkers in DIY public installations which has earned him a devoted following in neighborhoods around New York City.

Ukrainian-born Konstantine Bokov began his career as an accordian-player and sheep-herder. After seeing a Van Gogh painting in Moscow, however, the young Bokov decided to put down his instrument and staff in favour of a paint brush. After the ideologically unreliable artist was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1975, Bokov found residence in Washington Heights in New York City. Bokov’s canvasses and recycled pieces offer an image of New York that is both a scathing critique and a profession of love.

Entirely self-taught, Bokov has showed around the U.S. and the world, including in New York (most recently at the NYC 2009 Outsider Art Fair), San Francisco, Holland, Vienna, Paris and Japan. In both his life and his art, Bokov has found himself acting as mediator between cultures and art movements. Bokov’s paintings employ the language of impressionism while disrupting the laws of classical depiction in unexpected ways.

In life and art Konstantin Bokov has found himself acting the mediator between cultures and art movements. A painter, junk artist and collagist, Bokov makes the recycling of cultural and industrial waste the central theme of his work.

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Konstantin Bokov

Russian born, New York Artist Konstantin Bokov, better known as "BOKOV" is a self taught artist (Painter / Sculptor ), born in Russia, moved to New York. Bokov paints and makes pieces of sculptor from Recled Trash that he finds walking on the streets of New York and New Jersey as he likes to walk over the George Washington Bridge into New Jersey.