Haim Sokol b.1973, Archangelsk, USSR  

Haim Sokol is an artist, poet, text writer

In 1991 emigrated to Israel

Graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art.

Between 2007-2022 lived and worked in Moscow

Senior lecturer of HSE (National Research University Higher School of Economics) Art and Design School, Moscow

Member of the editorial board at the Moscow Art Magazine

Since 2022 based in Tel Aviv, Israel

Haim Sokol is an installation, sculpture, and video artist whose practice addresses the dramatic social histories of Russia and Eastern Europe. Though many of his works teeter on the edge of fiction and fantasy, Sokol roots his use of literary allusion in historical reality and the legacy of major 20th century uprisings, revolutions, massacres and genocides. By compounding the grim realities of urban life with the complexity of exile and socio -political diaspora, Sokol’s works effectively capture experiences of alienation, isolation and disrupted communication  

The artist’s solo projects have been exhibited at the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Stella Art Foundation and many other important vanues

Participant of numerous shows in Russia and internationally, including the 2nd Kyiv Biennial (2015), 1st Indian Biennalle in Kochi -Muziris (2012), Mediations Biennale (Poznan, 2010), 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2009), 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessalonica (2009)

His works are included in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Multimedia Art Museum, the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (PERMМ), Stella Art Foundation, the Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin, and other private and public collections