The work of YEVGENIY FIKS (b. 1972, Moscow) is based on historical research, usually of forgotten and unresolved 20th century narratives. Some of these topics include the shared histories of the Red and Lavender Scares during the McCarthy era in the US; Communism in Modern Art; and African, African-American, and Jewish Diasporas in the Soviet Union. His projects include Pas de Trois, Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn (2021); Mister Deviant, Comrade Degenerate, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ (2019); Mother Tongue, Pushkin House and GRAD, London (2019), Optica Bronstein (with Pablo Helguera), The Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2017), In Edenia, a City of the Future (with Larissa Babij), Yermilov Center, Kharkiv (2017), Landscapes of the Jewish Autonomous Region, Galerie Sator, Paris (2012), Andy Warhol and The Pittsburgh Labor Files, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2015); Monument to Cold War Victory (with Stamatina Gregory), The Cooper Union, New York (2014); Homosexuality Is Stalin’s Atom Bomb to Destroy America, Winkleman Gallery, New York (2013); Communist Tour of MoMA (Performance), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); Communist Party USA, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow (2007), among others. He also participated in numerous group exhibitions at various institutions, including Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York), MASS MoCA (Massachusetts), Museu Colecção Berardo (Lisbon), and Calvert22 (London). Fiks lives and works in New York.