project to explore the issue of racial equality in the Soviet Union. In The Wayland Rudd Collection (2014), he collected Soviet visual imagery of Africans and African-Americans, including images depicting and promoting racial equality, and invited international artists to respond to those images in the form of artworks. Submitted works by participating artists to this project reflect on the short-term successes and eventual failures of equality and internationalism in the Soviet Union. Artists included in this project are Dread Scott, Joy Garnett, Kara Lynch, Haim Sokol, and many more. This collection has been exhibited in New York and Harare, Zimbabwe. Books Moscow, from Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012 Communist Guide to New York City from Common Books, edited by Common Room with essays by Olga Kopenkina and Kim Foster, 2008 Lenin for Your Library? from Ante Projects, edited by Nick Herman with an essay by Olga Kopenkina, 2007 References 1972 births American conceptual artists Living people 20th-century American painters American male painters American contemporary painters Artists from Moscow Painters from New York City Brooklyn College alumni 20th-century American male artists