ABOUT

Leonid Yentus is co-founder and creative director of YDesign in New York designing lighting and furniture as well display systems and exhibits with a focus on museum works. He has designed and executed commissions of public and private projects in the United States, Europe, and Russia since the early 80’s. In all his work he crosses boundaries between art and design and integrates craftsmanship to the fields of industrial design.

PRESS

Yentus has participated in many group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Russia. His objects, furniture and lighting prototypes are included in the permanent collections of Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal, Quebec, Canada and The Zimmerly Art Museum of Rudgers University, NewBrunswick, NJ. His work has been published in: "The International Design Yearbook" by Alessandro Mendini, Calman & King Ltd., UK 1996,"European Design-Design as Identity" Exhibition catalog, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 1996,"The International Lighting Design" by Jeremy Myerson, Calman & King Ltd., UK 1996, "Russian Design Alive: From Constructivism to 1996 Avant-gardista" in Designers' Workshop", Japan, 1996, "From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union" Catalog, The Zimmerly Art Museum, 1995, "La Fabbrica Estetica" by Aiessandro Mendini, Alessi Tendentse, 1992, "100 Artists: 10,000 Vases", Abitare, Italy, March 1992, "New Russian Design" by Constantin Boym, Rizzoli, 1992, "From Russia with Imagination", Casa Vouge, Italy, May 1990.

CLIENTS

The State Historical Museum, The State A.S. Pushkin Museum, The State Tretyakov Gallery, The Museum of Cosmonautics, State Literature Museum, The State Darwin Museum, Tula State Arms Museum, Novodevichy Convent, The State Central Museum of the Contemporary History of Russia, Arkhangelsk Museum of Local Lore, Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate "Yasnaya Polyana", State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno, The Vladimir and Suzdal State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve, State Borodino War and History Museum and Reserve, The Museum-panorama the Borodino Battle, The Museum of Ceramics and the 18th Century Kuskovo Estate, Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve Kolomenskoe

Russian and Moscow cultural exhibition installations in Europe include: Berlin, Helsinki, Leipzig, Lyon, Munich, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Krakow, Hamburg, Brussels, Copenhagen, Vienna Mexico City and Panama City as well as The First ArchBiennale, Moscow

CONTACT

leonidyentus@gmail.com