Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid

Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid: Komar (b.1943) and Melamid (b.1945) are Moscow–born conceptualist artists who emigrated to the United States in 1978 and live and work in New York. They are the founders of the Sots–Art movement, a critical, conceptual form of Pop art, based on capitalist commercial advertisement in combination with the principles of Dadaism. Their art was always ironic, sarcastic, and sometimes grotesque. Their works are in the collections of Albertina, Israel Museum, Ludwig Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Zimmerli Museum of Art, Rutgers University, The Pushkin Museum, Tel Aviv Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum (London), among others.