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{{short description|Soviet and Russian-American conceptual artist}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name          = Ilya Kabakov
| image         = "The Man Who Flew in to Space From His Apartment"("L'home que va volar a l'espai des del seu apartament").jpg
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| caption       = Ilya Kabakov gives instructions for the installation "The Man Who will Fly into Space From His Apartment"
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| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age |1933|9|30|}}
| birth_place   = [[Dnipropetrovsk]], [[Ukrainian SSR]]
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| nationality   = [[Russia]]n
| field         = [[Installation art]]
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|spouse=Emilia
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[[File:TextSkulpturIlya Kabakov.jpg|thumb|Installation in [[Münster]]]]
[[File:Ilya Kabakov-Der gefallene Kronleuchter.jpg|thumb|''The fallen Chandelier'' in [[Zürich]]]]
'''Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Илья́ Ио́сифович Кабако́в; born September 30, 1933), is a Russian - –American conceptual artist,<ref>https://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:ATOKx0bwAOwJ:www.ilya-emilia-kabakov.com/biography.pdf+Ilya+Kabakov+Jewish&hl=en&gl=us</ref> born in [[Dnipropetrovsk]] in what was then the [[Ukrainian SSR]] of the [[Soviet Union]]. He worked for thirty years in [[Moscow]], from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on [[Long Island]], [[United States]].

Throughout his forty-year plus career, Kabakov has produced a wide range of paintings, drawings, installations, and theoretical texts — —not to mention extensive memoirs that track his life from his childhood to the early 1980s.  In recent years, he has created installations that evoked the [[visual culture]] of the [[Soviet Union]], though this theme has never been the exclusive focus of his work. Unlike some underground Soviet artists, Kabakov joined the [[USSR Union of Artists|Union of Soviet Artists]] in 1959, and became a full member in 1962. This was a prestigious position in the USSR and it brought with it substantial material benefit(contracted; show full)[[Category:American installation artists]]
[[Category:American contemporary artists]]
[[Category:Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Arts]]
[[Category:Soviet people of Jewish descent]]
[[Category:People from Dnipro]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts]]
[[Category:Russian contemporary artists]]