Leah (2022) Pittura da Iosef Yusupov

                                                                 Biography 

                  Iosef Yusupov Cohen is American  costume and  set designer, painter  based in New York who has worked professionally around the world for more than 30 years.

He received his MFA from the Saint Petersburg Institute,Music and Cinematography, he designed sets and costumes  all over Russia, Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union. 

 His first major success came with the production of Oedipus Rex at the Tadzhik Lakhuti Academic Drama Theater for which production  received the prestigious State Prize of the USSR for the Arts.

Iosef is founding president of Stage Dimension Co

 Since moving to the United States, he has designed costumes and sets for numerous shows in US and abroad, including plays, operas, movies and TV productions.

Broadway productions include: Little Mermaid, Lunt-Fontanne Theater, 200

 Metropolitan Opera House : Gambler  2001, MTV Music Award 2000, War and Peace 2002, Benvenuto Cellini 2003, Magic Flute 2005, Mazeppa 2006

Internationally his works has been seen at: Lakhuti Theater Tajikistan, Pushkin Theater Sant-Peterburg Russia, Theater Vurgun Baku Azerbaijan, Salzburg festival Austria, Athens Greece, La Scala Milan< Convent Garden London, Mariinsky Theater Sant-Peterburg, Bolshoi Theater, Moskow, Opera Australia Sidney, Netherlands Opera Amsterdam, Erfurt Germany, Opera Bastille Paris, Beijing China Bird Nest Stadium, Fisht Olimpic Stadium, Sochy, Russia.

Hi has worked with notable directors: Francesca Zambella, Pierre Audi, Robert Sturua, Peter Sellars, Andrey Konchalovsky, Julie Taymor, Alexander Galibin, Shaig Safarov, Guy Montavan, Andrew S. Paul, Efim Maizel, Aleksey Rotmansky, Zhang Yimou.Jo Anne Akalatis.

Many art works by Iosef Yusupov are in private collections Israel, Russia, Usa, Germany, Australia, Canada and  in collection of Bakhrushin Museum, Russia and  Museum Behzod Tadjikistan

EXHIBITION :

Gallery Shchukin. New York 2017

Shapiro Auction. New York 2016

Group Show at Gallery Shchukin. New York  2016

One -Man Show in IB Clark Gallery , New Hope, PA  2015

One-Man Show of Painting and Drawings for Opera and Theater

Baku Azerbaijan 2008

One-Man Show of Painting and Drawings for Opera and Theater

Queens Theater in the Park,NYC 1999

Group show Gallery as Is , Philadelphia ,PA 1995

Exhibition of theater Posters Moscow, Russia 1988

Exhibition of Theater and Cinema, Moscow Russia 1985

• Nazionalità: STATI UNITI
• Data di nascita : 1955
• Domini artistici: Opere di artisti professionisti,
• Gruppi: Artista professionista Artisti Americani Contemporanei