27East, November 3, 2025
Shimon Okshteyn: Dialogues With History
27East spotlights Shimon Okshteyn’s ‘Dialogues With History’, celebrating his masterful reimagining of Old Master imagery through contemporary symbols, rich invention, and striking psychological complexity.
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Meer, June 10, 2025
The Artist Estate, Part 2
Meer features ‘The Artist Estate, Part 2’, presenting 23 works — many shown publicly for the first time—and offering a rich exploration of Shimon Okshteyn’s artistic evolution and enduring legacy.
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The Café Review, Summer 2024
Shimon Okshteyn
Posthumous artist feature
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27East, June 28, 2021
Shimon Okshteyn Landscapes And Still-Lifes
27East highlights Shimon Okshteyn’s landscapes and still lifes celebrating the breadth of his artistic vision and the enduring power of his work.
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BroadwayWorld, June 23, 2021
Black & White Gallery Opens In Southampton Featuring Works By The Late Shimon Okshteyn
By Chloe Rabinowitz
BroadwayWorld announces the opening of Black & White Gallery in Southampton with an inaugural exhibition celebrating the artistic legacy of Shimon Okshteyn through his landscapes and still lifes.
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Social Life Magazine, July 2021
Shimon Okshteyn’s Legacy Lives On
By R. Couri Hay
Feature on Shimon Okshteyn’s artistic legacy.
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NYC-ARTS - Top Five Picks: July 30–August 5, 2021
En Plein Air Reloaded: Green Fuse
Featuring work by Shimon Okshteyn, as one of its Top Five cultural picks of the week.
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USA Art News, January 8, 2021
Remembering Art World Figures Who Died in 2020
Includes a tribute to Shimon Okshteyn and discussion of his work
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty [Радио Свобода], April 11, 2020
The Magic of Predatory Eros: In Memory of the Artist Shimon Okshteyn
In a moving tribute, acclaimed writer Alexander Genis remembers Shimon Okshteyn as a brilliant draftsman and explores the enduring mystery, eroticism, and transformative power of his art.
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Hamptons Art Hub, March 2018
Artists Respond to Challenge to ‘Think Red’ at Janet Lehr Gallery
By Kelcey Edwards
Hamptons Art Hub singles out Shimon Okshteyn’s ‘Garden Nymph’ as a mesmerizing painting and one of the greatest showstoppers in Janet Lehr Fine Arts’ Valentine & Art: Together Forever exhibition.
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The East Hampton Star, May 22, 2018
The Art Scene: Magical Realism at Lehr
By Mark Segal
The East Hampton Star highlights Shimon Okshteyn’s ‘Magical Realism’ exhibition at Janet Lehr Fine Arts, praising his distinctive combination of meticulous craftsmanship, incisive social commentary, and humor.
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Hamptons Art Hub, May 2018
Janet Lehr Fine Arts Opens Season with Shimon Okshteyn: Post Pop Magical Realism
Hamptons Art Hub highlights Shimon Okshteyn’s ‘Post Pop: Magical Realism’ exhibition at Janet Lehr Fine Arts, celebrating his masterful technique and distinctive transformation of familiar objects into powerful, larger-than-life images.
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Hamptons Art Hub, June 2018
Larger Than Life: A Journey through Shimon Okshteyn’s Art that Skewers and Reveals
By Kelcey Edwards
Hamptons Art Hub offers an intimate journey through Shimon Okshteyn’s studio and acclaims him as a virtuosic, remarkably versatile artist whose meticulous craftsmanship, intellectual depth, and visual wit made ‘Magical Realism–POST POP ‘a “not-to-miss” exhibition.
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Russia-IC, November 14, 2013
Exhibition of Shimon Okshteyn to be Opened in St. Petersburg
By Vera Ivanova
Russia-IC announces Shimon Okshteyn’s ‘Dialogues’ exhibition at KGallery in St. Petersburg, celebrating his significant place in American art and his inclusion in leading museum and private collections.
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L.I. ART, September–October 2013
Shimon Okshteyn / Interview
By David Dubois
In an extensive bilingual interview, Shimon Okshteyn traces his remarkable journey from Soviet art training to international recognition, reflecting on creative freedom, major museum achievements, and his continually evolving dialogue between art, history, and contemporary life.
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KudaGo, October 23, 2013
Shimon Okshteyn’s Exhibition ‘Dialogues’
Preview of the November 2013 exhibition at KGallery in St. Petersburg
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TOP Magazin, December 2012
Kunst erleben
TOP Magazin features Shimon Okshteyn’s German exhibition of painting, drawing, and sculpture, highlighting the monumental ‘Lost Christmas’ series and its masterful fusion of Russian artistic tradition and Old Master imagery with contemporary symbols of technology, kitsch, and consumer culture.
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Look At Me , February 4, 2011
Shimon Okshteyn at Triumph Gallery
By Alexandra Gulyaeva
Look At Me features Shimon Okshteyn’s ‘Lost Christmas’ exhibition at Triumph Gallery, highlighting his monumental still lifes and imaginative fusion of Old Master traditions with contemporary culture.
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Arguments and Facts [Аргументы и факты], March 2, 2011
Shimon Okshteyn: ‘Objects, Like People, Have Their Own Character’
By Valentina Oberemko
In an engaging interview with Arguments and Facts, Shimon Okshteyn discusses his artistic vision, creative process, and ‘Lost Christmas’ exhibition, explaining how everyday objects possess distinctive characters and inspire his work.
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The Village Voice, October 28, 2008
Chelsea Gallery Shows Quite a Piece!
Michael Musto humorously highlights Shimon Okshteyn’s provocative, sexually explicit self-referential sculpture at Stux Gallery, celebrating its irreverence and audacious humor.
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The New York Sun, April 17, 2008
Simple Beauty
By Maureen Mullarkey
In its review of ‘Here’s the Thing: The Single Object Still Life’ at the Katonah Museum of Art, The New York Sun praises Shimon Okshteyn’s monumental graphite drawing of a steam iron for transforming a mundane appliance into a solemn, poignant presence “scarred with the traces of time, but still upright.”
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Artforum, October 23, 2008
Critics’ Picks New York: Shimon Okshteyn — Stux + Haller Gallery
By Francine Koslow Miller
Artforum acclaims Shimon Okshteyn’s ‘Dangerous Pleasures’ at Stux + Haller Gallery as an “obscenely funny and outrageously well-crafted” exhibition whose magic-realist works offer poignant meditations on time, aging, and mortality.
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Lucid Culture, October 25, 2008
Art Review: Shimon Okshteyn at the Stefan Stux Gallery, NYC
Lucid Culture praises Shimon Okshteyn’s provocative exhibition at Stefan Stux Gallery for its technical virtuosity, dark wit, and compelling exploration of desire, decadence, and contemporary culture.
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The Zine, November 5, 2008
Shimon Okshteyn at Heist
Adda Birnir praises Shimon Okshteyn’s ‘Reflection on Reality’ at Heist Gallery as an immersive, seductive funhouse of mirrors, neon, and unsettling imagery that transforms the gallery into a compelling observation point for everyday life on the Lower East Side.
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Artnet News, January 25, 2007
Okshteyn Retro in Russia
News feature announcing Shimon Okshteyn’s 2007 exhibitions at the Memorial Art Gallery and his 30-year retrospective in Moscow and at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
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Democrat and Chronicle [Rochester City Newspaper], April 8, 2007
Visual Arts, Larger Than Life, Memorial Art Gallery
After Lifes: Recent Works by Shimon Okshteyn
By Stuart Low
In its coverage of ‘Natura Morta’ at the Memorial Art Gallery, the Democrat and Chronicle highlights Shimon Okshteyn’s companion exhibition, ‘After Lifes’, praising his gleefully irreverent and witty transformation of Old Master still lifes and Medici excess.
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FashionTime, May 2007
Shimon Okshteyn: A Conversation with the Object
Preview of Shimon Okshteyn’s retrospective exhibition ‘Dialogue with Objects’ at the M’ARS Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, tracing the evolution of his work from the late 1970s through 2007.
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Kommersant[Коммерсантъ], September 1, 2007
Works Resembling Art: Shimon Okshteyn’s Exhibition at the Russian Museum
By Mikhail Trofimenkov
Feature of Shimon Okshteyn’s major retrospective at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, highlighting his monumental, meticulously rendered images and inventive dialogue between everyday objects, art history, and contemporary culture.
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Novoe Russkoe Slovo [Новое русское слово], March 24, 2006
Polyphony of Shimon Okshteyn
In “Shimon Okshteyn’s Polyphony,” Maya Pritzker celebrates the richness and originality of his work, highlighting his masterful interplay of historical imagery, contemporary objects, and diverse artistic media.
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The New York Times, June 18, 2006
When’s the Other One Going to Drop?
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Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art, 2005
New York State Museum, Albany, NY
In his review of ‘Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art’ at the New York State Museum, David Brickman singles out Shimon Okshteyn’s monumental graphite drawing as one of the exhibition’s freshest discoveries, praising its extraordinary interplay of microscopic scrutiny, cool observation, and passionate affection.
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ARTnews, November 2003
Shimon Okshteyn: O.K. Harris
Robert A. McAdam praises Shimon Okshteyn’s 2003 O.K. Harris exhibition for its provocative, disorienting interplay of Pop, Dada, conceptual art, and personal imagery, in which “things are rarely what they seem.”
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The New York Times, March 14, 2003
Art Guide: Shimon Okshteyn — O.K. Harris
By Ken Johnson
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The New York Art World, 2003
Shimon Okshteyn, at Nohra Haime Gallery
The New York Art World Tova Beck-Friedman praises Shimon Okshteyn’s nine stunning graphite paintings at Nohra Haime Gallery for their astonishing precision and masterful transformation of the painterly brushstroke into compelling illusion.
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NY ARTS, 2002
Approaching Objects, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
NY Arts highlights Shimon Okshteyn’s monumental graphite drawing ‘Metal Container’ in the Whitney Museum’s Approaching Objects, where it commanded attention alongside works by Jasper Johns, Christo, Jim Dine, and Robert Gober.
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NY ARTS, January 2001
Shimon Okshteyn’s Hypnotic Objects
In NY Arts, distinguished critic Donald Kuspit celebrates Shimon Okshteyn’s monumental “hypnotic objects” as emotionally resonant, masterfully rendered works that transform ordinary, timeworn things into powerful symbols of memory, history, and human experience.
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The Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2001
New Art Thrives in Slow Economy, But Its Looks May Surprise People
By Alexandra Peers
Includes commentary from Shimon Okshteyn on the contemporary art market
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H Connoisseur, 1999
Fashionable Values
In H Connoisseur, Renée Dahl celebrates Shimon Okshteyn’s extraordinary technical virtuosity and monumental realism, describing how he transformed familiar fashion objects into timeless icons of striking psychological and visual power.
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The Southampton Press, August 19, 1999
An Artist Explores New Ways to Capture Truth of Ordinary Objects
Siobhan Peiffer profiles Shimon Okshteyn’s artistic journey and celebrates his “conceptual realism”—monumental, meticulously rendered works that transform ordinary objects into powerful vessels of memory and meaning.
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Daily News, July 9, 1999
The Latest Thing in Art Is Sure to Be OK
By Mila Andre
Daily News prominently features Shimon Okshteyn’s monumental graphite painting ‘Swiss Army Knife’ in its coverage of O.K. Harris’s cutting-edge summer exhibition, while also noting his concurrent presentation at Elaine Benson Gallery.
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Review, December 15, 1998
Shimon Okshteyn: Aging Icons
In Review, J. Bowyer Bell acclaims Shimon Okshteyn’s ‘Aging Icons’ as a compelling and profound exhibition in which extraordinary skill, monumental scale, and visual vitality transform familiar objects into powerful icons.
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Novoye Russkoye Slovo (Russian Daily, NY), December 25, 1998
I Cannot Live to Order
By Maya Pritzker
In an in-depth interview with Novoye Russkoye Slovo, Shimon Okshteyn reflects on artistic freedom, memory, and his creative process, revealing how he transformed overlooked everyday objects into monumental, emotionally charged works of art.
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Obshchaya Gazeta [Общая газета], January 29–February 4, 1998
Okshteyn’s Fetishes
In “Okshteyn’s Fetishes,” acclaimed writer Alexander Genis explores the distinctive magic and erotic power of Shimon Okshteyn’s art, celebrating his ability to transform everyday objects into mysterious, emotionally charged presences.
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Novoye Russkoye Slovo (Russian Daily, NY), January 3, 1997
The Magic of Things
In ‘The Magic of Things’, Novoye Russkoye Slovo celebrates Shimon Okshteyn’s exhibition at O.K. Harris, praising his remarkable technical mastery and ability to imbue familiar objects with mystery, monumental presence, and profound emotional meaning.
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Literaturnaya Gazeta (Литературная газета, Moscow), May 18, 1994
He Calls His Paintings Assemblages
In Literaturnaya Gazeta, Natalya Kozlova profiles Shimon Okshteyn’s innovative assemblages, celebrating his fusion of masterful realism and found objects to reveal the layered meanings, contradictions, and poetry of contemporary material culture.
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Semaine des Spectacles, Provence Côte d’Azur, June 22–28, 1994
L’oxygène d’Okshteyn
In Semaine des Spectacles, M. Desforges praises Shimon Okshteyn’s exhibition at the Centre d’Art Vaas in Vence, and hails his work as unlike anything then seen in Europe, celebrating its originality, inventive transformation of everyday objects, and invigorating impact on the contemporary art world.
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Nice-Matin, June 26, 1994
Shimon Okhstein: Entre New York et Chernovitz
Sylvie Carbou reviews Shimon Okshteyn’s exhibition at the Centre d’Art Vaas in Vence, highlighting his New York–influenced blend of Surrealism and Pop Art, and describing his sophisticated compositions as compelling explorations of the relationship between image, reality, and the unconscious.
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Novoye Russkoye Slovo (Russian Daily, NY), September 26–27, 1992
Pampering Things
In Novoye Russkoye Slovo, critic Regina Khidekel celebrates Shimon Okshteyn’s transformation of everyday things into dynamic “super-objects,” praising his inventive manipulation of scale, space, and material to create an intimate and thought-provoking dialogue with the viewer.
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Daily News, December 29, 1982
Artist to Show Works in N.Y. City Gallery
Daily News announces Shimon Okshteyn’s ten-year retrospective at Edward Nakhamkin Fine Arts, quoting museum director Richard Muhlberger’s praise of the artist’s exceptional intensity and distinctive vision, which “enriches the art of this country.”
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Ukraina, 1977
Shimon Okshteyn, Decree of Peace, 1977
Work reproduced from the art exhibition “Following Lenin’s Path,” dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.
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