A Journey Across Continents

The exhibition history of Nicholas Shaplyko and Ekaterina Sorokina is not a conventional list of dates and venues. It is a journey across countries, cultures, and continents—a long artistic route that began in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and continues today through international art fairs, museum environments, gallery presentations, and cultural encounters around the world.

From the beginning, exhibitions were never simply places to show paintings. They were points of contact between artistic vision and the world. Each country added another layer. Each audience opened another conversation. Each exhibition became part of a growing map of recognition.

The early exhibition path began across the Soviet Union, Russia, and other republics, where the artists’ work was shown regularly before their move to the United States. This professional record became part of the foundation for their 1994 recognition in America as Artists of Extraordinary Ability.

After arriving in the United States, the journey expanded dramatically.

Across Europe, the artists’ work appeared in France, Denmark, Germany, Italy, and other cultural settings. France became one of the most important European chapters, with multiple exhibitions and long-term cultural connections. Denmark also became part of the exhibition geography, including cultural presentations connected with Copenhagen.

Across Asia, the artistic journey reached India and Nepal, where ancient philosophy, mythology, architecture, and spiritual traditions entered into dialogue with the artists’ visual language.

Across Africa, Morocco became another vivid point on the map, opening a dialogue with North African color, architecture, ornament, and atmosphere.

Across the Middle East, Dubai became a major contemporary platform, connecting the Museum of Modern Renaissance with an international audience through World Art Dubai.

Across South America, Argentina and Buenos Aires became part of the wider exhibition and travel history, expanding the work into another cultural hemisphere.

Across North America, the journey developed into something larger than exhibitions alone: the Museum of Modern Renaissance in Somerville, the House of Art in Gloucester, the Sculpture Garden, gallery presentations, open studios, art fairs, concerts, and living artistic environments.

This is not only an exhibition record.

It is a geography of imagination.

A map drawn through Russia, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, South America, and the United States.

A route where paintings crossed borders, where ideas entered new cultural spaces, and where the artists’ work became part of an ongoing international conversation.

Exhibition Geography

Russia / Soviet Union / Former Soviet Republics
The early exhibition foundation, beginning in the 1980s, when the artists’ work was shown regularly across the Soviet cultural landscape.

France
A major European chapter, with repeated exhibitions and long-term cultural connections. France remains one of the important points in the artists’ international exhibition history.

Denmark / Copenhagen
A cultural exhibition chapter connected with Denmark and Copenhagen, including presentations within Russian and international cultural contexts.

Germany
Part of the broader European exhibition route and cultural geography of the artists’ work.

Italy
An important European cultural reference point, connecting the artists’ visual language with Renaissance memory, architecture, and the long history of European art.

India
A major source of artistic and philosophical inspiration, connected with exhibitions, collections, cultural travel, mythology, Sanskrit traditions, and spiritual imagery.

Nepal
Part of the artists’ Asian cultural and exhibition route, connected with spiritual traditions, symbolism, and artistic exchange.

Morocco
A North African chapter in the artists’ exhibition geography, adding another cultural atmosphere to the wider map of artistic encounters.

Argentina / Buenos Aires
A South American chapter, expanding the artists’ exhibition route across the Atlantic into another cultural world.

United Arab Emirates / Dubai
A major contemporary international platform through World Art Dubai, connecting the Museum of Modern Renaissance with collectors, galleries, and art audiences from many countries.

United States
The country where the artists’ international journey entered a new chapter: Museum of Modern Renaissance, House of Art, Sculpture Garden, New York art fairs, Miami art fairs, Hamptons Fine Art Fair, and American cultural audiences.

Selected International Art Fairs & Major Presentations

World Art Dubai 2024 — Dubai, United Arab Emirates
World Art Dubai 2024 brought together international pavilions including the UAE, America, Asia, China, Europe, GCC, India, Iran, Japan, Russia, and the UK, emphasizing art as a global language across borders. The Museum of Modern Renaissance participated within this international context, extending its presence into one of the Middle East’s major contemporary art platforms.

Red Dot Miami 2024 — Miami, Florida
Presented with AGI Fine Art at Red Dot Miami, this fair placed the Museum of Modern Renaissance within the Miami art week environment, one of the most active international art moments in the United States. AGI Fine Art featured Nicholas Shaplyko and Ekaterina Sorokina as the artists behind the Museum of Modern Renaissance presentation.

Artexpo New York 2025 — New York, New York
Artexpo New York 2025, held April 3–6 at Pier 36 in Manhattan, included a solo booth presentation of “Museum of Modern Renaissance” Nicholas Shaplyko & Ekaterina Sorokina with AGI Fine Art. This became an important New York art fair chapter in the artists’ continuing American exhibition journey.

Context Miami 2025 — Miami, Florida
Context Miami became another important Miami art fair chapter in the Museum of Modern Renaissance exhibition path, continuing the artists’ presence within one of the strongest international art fair ecosystems in the United States.

Hamptons Fine Art Fair 2026 — Southampton, New York
The Museum of Modern Renaissance presents the themed booth Real Surreal: Unlocking the Dream State at Hamptons Fine Art Fair 2026. The fair describes the booth as an exploration of Surrealism’s core idea: bypassing rational control and entering the deeper reality of dreams and the unconscious mind.

Somerville Open Studios — Somerville, Massachusetts
The Museum of Modern Renaissance also participates in the local cultural life of Somerville through open studio and public art events, connecting the international exhibition journey back to the community where the museum lives.

Museum of Modern Renaissance — Somerville, Massachusetts
Beyond art fairs and galleries, the Museum itself is a permanent immersive exhibition environment. It is not only a place where works are displayed; it is a work large enough to enter.

House of Art and Sculpture Garden — Gloucester, Massachusetts
The House of Art and Sculpture Garden extend the exhibition idea into nature, architecture, forest, ocean landscape, bronze, murals, and open air. It is the continuation of the same artistic journey beyond the museum walls.

Continuing Route

This exhibition history continues to grow.

Some chapters are documented in public records, catalogs, gallery listings, and fair announcements. Others live in archives, photographs, invitations, correspondence, and the memories of visitors, collectors, and cultural institutions. Together, they form a broad international map: Russia, France, Denmark, Germany, Italy, India, Nepal, Morocco, Argentina, Dubai, New York, Miami, the Hamptons, Somerville, and Gloucester.

The journey is still moving.

Every exhibition becomes another point on the map.

Every country leaves a trace.

Every presentation carries the work further.

And every return to the Museum of Modern Renaissance brings the world back into the place where the journey continues.