Leonid sokov biography for kids

Sokov was born in a village. His father, a dairy plant director, was killed in the war. As a child, he learned how to make wooden toys. Brought to Moscow as a youth, he continued to enjoy sculptural handicrafts. He chose sculpture as his field at the Moscow Middle Art School, a school for gifted children). Between 1964 and 1969, he studied at the Stroganov Moscow Higher Industrial Art School. After graduation, he worked an animalist sculptor, but soon after gave up a career accepting official commissions. Between 1966 and 1969 he shared a studio with his colleague and friend Alexander Kosolapov. In 1976 for the Moscow unofficial festival of  “apartment exhibitions,” he organized a show of Pop Art and Conceptualists in his studio in Moscow, where he also showed his first Pop Art works. Sokov emigrated from the USSR in 1979, and has been living in New York since 1980.  His first one-man show was at the Storefront Gallery in 1983. In 1986 he took pa

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