Slava Mogutin

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birthdate = Birth date and age|1974|4|12|mf=y
location = Kemerovo, Siberia, Russia
birthname = Ярослав Могутин (Yaroslav Mogutin)
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nationality = Russian
field = Photography, Multimedia, Visual Arts, Literature
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works = [http://www.powerhousebooks.com/book/81 Lost Boys] , [http://www.powerhousebooks.com/book/334 NYC Go-Go]
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Slava Mogutin (b. April 12, 1974, Kemerovo) is a New York-based Russian artist and writer, the author of 2 monographs of photography, [http://www.powerhousebooks.com/book/81 Lost Boys] and [http://www.powerhousebooks.com/book/334 NYC Go-Go] , and 7 books of writings published in Russian.

Born in Siberia, in the industrial city of Kemerovo, Mogutin moved to Moscow as a teenager. He soon began working as a journalist for the first independent Russian publishers, newspapers and radio stations. By the age of 21, he had gained both critical acclaim and official condemnation for his outspoken queer writings and activism. Accused of “open and deliberate contempt for generally accepted moral norms”; “malicious hooliganism with exceptional cynicism and extreme insolence”; “inflaming social, national, and religious division”; “propaganda of brutal violence, psychic pathology, and sexual perversions”—he became the target of 3 highly publicized criminal cases, carrying a potential prison sentence of up to 7 years.

Forced to leave Russia, Mogutin was granted political asylum in the US with the support of Amnesty International and PEN American Center. Upon his arrival in New York City, he shifted his focus to visual arts and got involved in the downtown art scene. Since 1999, he has had solo shows in New York, Berlin, Stockholm, and Moscow. His photography has been featured in a wide range of publications including BUTT, The New York Times, The Village Voice, i-D, Visionaire, Bound & Gagged, and L’Uomo Vogue. Mogutin is the winner of the [http://www.nlobooks.ru/eng/107/109/428/ Andrei Belyi Prize] for Literature (2000). His poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies in 6 languages. He has translated into Russian Allen Ginsberg's poetry, William S. Burroughs' essays and Dennis Cooper's fiction. He appeared as an actor in Bruce LaBruce’s agitprop porn movie Skin Flick (1999) and Laura Colella’s independent feature [http://www.stayuntiltomorrow.com Stay Until Tomorrow] (2004).

In 2004, together with his partner-collaborator [http://briankenny.blogspot.com/ Brian Kenny] , he co-founded SUPERM, a multimedia art team responsible for site-specific gallery and museum shows in New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Berlin, London, Oslo, Bergen, and León, Spain.

External links

* [http://www.slavamogutin.com Slava Mogutin's personal site]
* [http://slavamogutin.blogspot.com Slava Mogutin's blog]
* [http://www.youtube.com/slavamogutin Slava Mogutin's videos on YouTube]
* [http://az.gay.ru/authors/contemporary/mogutin.html Slava Mogutin's unofficial site] (in Russian)
* [http://www.blowdelabarra.com/ex_07slava.php Blow de la Barra Gallery]
* [http://www.galleri-se.no/show/sputnik/ Galleri s.e]

Monographs

* [http://www.powerhousebooks.com/book/334 NYC Go-Go]
* [http://www.powerhousebooks.com/book/81 Lost Boys]
* [http://www.powerhousebooks.com/book/373 Lost Boys limited edition]

Reviews

* [http://www.advocate.com/issue_story_ektid56916.asp NYC Go-Go review in The Advocate]
* [http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=6177 Lost Boys review in The Globalist]
* [http://www.vmagazine.com/article.php?n=468 Lost Boys review in V Magazine]
* [http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=216 Lost Boys review in Bay Area Reporter]
* [http://jcreport.com/intelligence/lifestyle/100806/viewing-and-staying Lost Boys review on JCReport]

Interviews

* [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=605344&hp The Stranger]
* [http://64.78.33.181/features/index.cfm?id=4217&cat=1&page=features&sub_page=weekly HX]
* [http://vmagazine.com/blog.php?n=466 V blog]
* [http://www.nothingmag.com/_issue15/index.html#5 Nothing Magazine]
* [http://www.genremagazine.com/2006/12-1/magazine/content/unspoken.cfm Genre Magazine]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhJEV7qGeMA Gay Action News]
* [http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/slava_mogutin.shtml Index Magazine]