Eduard Gorokhovsky was born in 1929 in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. He studied architecture at the Odessa Institute of Building and Construction. After completing his degree in 1954, he moved the following year to Novosibirsk, where he worked as a designer and illustrator of children’s books until 1967. During this period he developed a personal style of collage, often combining various techniques and images within one painting. In 1973 he moved to Moscow and joined the group of Conceptualist artists that included Kabakov, Pivovarov, Bulatov, Vasiliev, Yankilevsky, and Shteinberg. Gorokhovsky began to incorporate «preformed» blocks of visual culture into his art, particularly old photographs. During perestroika his work acquired a more overt political character consistent with Sots Art and Pop Art. He began to manipulate cultural documents such as Soviet political posters for his paintings.
His famous series Stalin and Lenin can be seen in museums in Europe and private collections in the United States and Europe. A major retrospective exhibition of Gorokhovsky’s work took place in Moscow in 1994. The artist has died in 2004 in Frankfurt am Main.
