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Elena Kalkova (b. 1991, Tver, Russia, lives and works in Newburgh, New York) is an interdisciplinary Russian-American artist, educator, and researcher. In her practice, she explores memory and memorylessness, state propaganda, resistance to the systems of oppression and violence, and complex relationships with the home, especially when the home is a dictatorship. Kalkova seeks personal and collective experiences, prioritizing coming together for the collective repair of fractured social ties and fostering horizontal connections.

Kalkova is interested in conversations about what is forgotten and what is pushed out or erased for those who are stuck in this liminal space of non-be/longing. She is trying to talk about fragile permanence and abiding intangibility. Her works are intimate memorials that seek to monumentalize the intangible and non-monumental.

Kalkova's written research lies primarily in the field of Post-Soviet feminist and queer art and translation.



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GRANTS AND AWARDS

2024 School of Visual Arts (SVA) Thesis Award

2024 School of Visual Arts (SVA) Alumni Grant

2021 Rhode Island Arts Council Grant




PUBLICATIONS

Russian Queer Art and Visual Culture, 2021, RISD Museum 




TALKS & WORKSHOPS

2023 Mapspace Gallery Artist Talk, Portchester, NY 

2021 Rhode Island School of Design Grad Research Lecture Series

2020 RISD Museum, Providence, RI




GROUP EXHIBITED

2024  The Invisible Dog Art Center, NYC, NY

2024 Port Chester Art Festival, Port Chester, NY 

2024 Art06870, Greenwich, CT 

2024 Mapspace Gallery, Port Chester, NY

2023 Flat Iron Gallery (SVA), NYC, NY, 

2023 Ice Cream Social, Port Chester, NY

2023 Curioser KC, Kansas City, MI

2022 Artists Lofts Association, Stamford, CT

2022 RISD Museum, Providence, RI

2021 Terrain Biennial, Chicago, IL

2021 Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL 

2020 Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, online 




RESIDENCIES

2020 School Of Visual Arts (SVA)




FEATURED

Vantage Art Projects 

Cleveland Artist Registry