Iosef Yusupov

In the landscape paintings of Iosef Yusupov one can see the bright colors of his native Samarcand. After graduating from the Saint Petersburg Institute Of Theater, Music and Cinematography, he designed sets 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 he received the prestigious State Prize of the USSR for the arts. Since moving to the United States, he had designed numerous shows in New York, including plays, operas and TV productions, and has worked as a scenic artist on major Hollywood pictures. He has been involved in all George Tsypin Opera Factory productions since the early 1990s as a collaborator and generator of ideas.

He has worked for many years with famous directors such as Peter Sellars, Julie Taymor, Pierre Audi, Francesca Zambella, Jürgen Flimm and Andrei Kontchalovsky. He also has a special creative relationship with designers George Tsypin, Michael Shemyakin, and Georgi Alexi-Meskheshvili.

You are welcome to preview his art at www.iosefyusupov.com.

Exhibitions:

2008
Stage Dimensions - Paintings, Set Designs, Models & Costume Designs, Maurice Pine Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ

1990
Exhibition of Theater Posters, Moscow, Russia