The artists started working as a team in 2000.   Multidisciplinary artists, their work reflects their own experiences and develops subjects dealing with migration, social developments and cultural engineering.

Exhibitions:

Selected Solo Exhibits:

2009: Casual Conversations in Brooklyn, Black and White Project Space, Brooklyn, New York

2008: Dam Lines, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA

2008: Language Barrier/Lower Manhattan, Public Art Installation, New York, USA

2008: Language Barrier-Yellow Pages, Stanislas Bourgain Galerie, Paris, France

2008: Hello, USA? Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow, Russia

2008: Language Barrier, Pulse, New York, USA

2005: Cloning Factory, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria

2004: Pink and Pong, Kvadrat Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

2003: Videolog, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia

Selected Group Exhibits:

2009: Frozen Reality, Holster Projects, London

2009: No Longer Empty, Chelsea Hotel, New York, USA

2009: The Situation, The Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2009: Ultra-New Materiality, the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2008: Moby Hosting, Bat-Yam Museum, Bat-Yam, Israel

2008: Off the Wall: Artists at Work, Jewish Museum, New York, USA

2008: Moscow – New York = Parallel Play, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA

2008: A Matter of Time, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA

2008: New York – Mexico – Paris, Estacion Indianilla Muesum, Mexico City, Mexico

2007: MOCA Mix Film, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA

2007: Left Pop, the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2007: Media Image and Unconscious, the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2007: Victory Over the Sun, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia

2007: Double Take-Remake, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia

2006: Making Love To My Ego, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, England

2006: Refuge, Busan Biennale, Busan South Korea

2006: Out of Paint, Kuhn Gallery, Ohio State University, Marion, USA

2006: Unauthorised Access, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2006:Aesthetics of Resistance, Assab One, Milan, Italy

2006: Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, USA

2006: Korperchen, Veranstalter Medienwerkstatt, Vienna, Austria

2005:  Russia Redux #1, Schroeder Romero Gallery, New York, USA

2005: Aesthetics of Resistance, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy

2005: Post-Diasporas: Voyages and Missions, the First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2004:  Symbols of The Big Bang, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, USA

2003:  St. Petersburg, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA

2003: Videolog, Donnell Library Center, New York, USA

2003: RAP, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2003: Femininity’s Redress, Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts, New York, USA

2003: Divine Women – Divine Work, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, USA

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

2009:  Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, USA

2008:  Art in Public Spaces Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA

2008:  Strategic Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA

2008:  Puffin Foundation Grant, Teaneck, USA

2007:  Six Points Fellowship, New York, USA (Alina Bliumis)

2005:  Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, USA

Selected Press

“Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture”, Saatchi Gallery, London, Englandm catalog, 2009

“Dam Lines” Alina and Jeff Bliumis, catalog, 2008

“Pulse review”“ Art in America, May 2008

“Moby Hosting”, Bat Yam Museum, catalog, 2008

“Receiving the Stranger”, Alina and Jeff Bliumis, catalog 2008

“Second Moscow Biennale, Review” Artforum, text by Emily Newman

“Thoughts on Resistance” interview, Yulia Tikhonova, Sculpture Magazine, July-August 2007

“Speak, Memory … 2007” text by Vitaly Patsyukov, catalog

2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, catalog, 2007

100 artists-in-residence, MuseumsQuartier Wien, 2007

Busan Biennale 2006, Sea Art Festival, catalog, 2006

The Aesthetics of Resistance, text by Roberto Pinto and Anna Daneri, catalog, 2006

Fiber Magazine, December 2005 “Cloning Factory: Alina Bliumis” text by Beatrice Bosiger

MQ Site, Magazine. 2005 “HYPERLINK “http://artcast.org/cf_press.htm”Rosa Hasen am laufenhden Band”  text by Nina Schedlmayer

NY ARTS Magazine, 2005 “HYPERLINK “http://artcast.org/rev_p.htm”Russia Redux / Schroeder Romero Gallery” text by Isabelle Dupuis

Digital Visions 2005 “HYPERLINK “http://artcast.org/dv.htm”Geometric Geography” text by Elisa Tjin & Sylvia Borda

1 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, catalog, 2006

Post-Diasporas: Voyages and Missions exhibition catalog, 2005

Artchronica, 2005 “HYPERLINK “http://artcast.org/gg_press.htm”Return of the resident: Post-Diasporas: Voyages and Missions” text by Anna Matveeva

Iskusstvo, Art Magazine January 2005 “Painting In Action” (Russian) text by Olga Khoroshilova

NY ARTS Magazine December 2004 “HYPERLINK “http://artcast.org/pink_p.htm”Painting In Action” text by Olga Khoroshilova