Boris Smelov

♂ *1951-1998 / Russia

Solo exhibitions

Retrospective

Sputnik Gallery, New York (US)
17 Mar 2011 – 30 Apr 2011
Retrospective

State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg (RU)
23 Mar 2009 – 26 Jun 2009

Group

The life of things

ROSPHOTO, Saint-Petersburg (RU)
23 Jan 2026 – 22 Mar 2026

with Sergey Falin, Alexander Kitaev, Sergey Rogozhkin, Alexander Slussarev, Maria Snigirevskaya
Punctum

St. Petersburg photography of the 1990s

ROSPHOTO, Saint-Petersburg (RU)
26 Oct 2022 – 10 Jan 2023

with Maria Snigirevskaya, Alexey Zelensky
Red Horizon: Contemporary Art and Photography in the USSR and Russia, 1960 - 2010

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (US)
16 Jun 2017 – 24 Sep 2017

with Gennady Bodrov, Andrey Chezhin, Vladimir Filonov, Farit Gubaev, Francisco Infante Arana, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Alexander Kosolapov, Sergey Kozhemyakin, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Alexander Lapin, Igor Moukhin, Irina Nakhova …
FOTOFEST 2012 BIENNIAL

CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN PHOTOGRAPHY Late 1940s - 2012

FotoFest, Houston (US)
16 Mar 2012 – 29 Apr 2012

with Alexander Abaza, AES+F, Max Alpert, Tatiana Antonuk, Nikolay Bakharev, Dimitry Baltermants, Andrei Bezukladnikov, Gennady Bodrov, Alexander Borodulin, Sergey Bratkov, Vita Buivid, Vitalijus Butyrinas …
Underground : Russian Photography 1970s-1980s

Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York (US)
25 Jan 2012 – 24 Mar 2012

with Nikolay Bakharev, Gennady Bodrov, Andrey Chezhin, Vladimir Kupriyanov, Alexander Lapin, Boris Mikhailov, Igor Moukhin, Yuri Rytchinsky, Alexey Titarenko
The silver city

Lumiere Brothers Center, Moscow (RU)
1 Feb 2012 – 26 Feb 2012

with Vladimir Antoshenkov, Alexander Chernogrivov, Alexander Kitaev, Igor Lebedev, Evgeny Mokhorev, Maria Snigirevskaya, Ludmila Tabolina, Natalia Tzehomskaya