Ted Vasin

Who is Ted Vasin?

Ted Vasin is a painter and sound artist based in San Francisco.

Born the only child of an artist and a geologist in Moscow, Russia, Ted Vasin often attended the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard where his grandfather Alexander Falkovsky was a costume and stage designer who created costumes for Oleg Popov, Yuri Nikulin and Karandash. His grandmother, Alexandra was a chapel soloist at the Yelokhovo Cathedral in Moscow. After study at the Moscow Art College Vasin found his way to the Bay Area.

Vasin's work has been exhibited internationally including shows at the 101/exhibit, Limm Art Gallery, Davis Art Center, artMRKT Hamptons, Frey Norris Gallery, Tarryn Teresa Gallery, Sotheby’s New York, Tel Aviv and Amsterdam, Stanford Art Spaces. Vasin participated in residencies through programs at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, showing at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor and the de Young Art Center in San Francisco,. In 2006 Ted was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. His work has been reviewed by the ArtWeek, San Francisco Chronicle, ArtSlant and has been featured in the American Art Collector, New American Paintings, Fashion Week Magazine, Wired Magazine as well as online in Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructoze and Beautiful/Decay. Vasin is represented by 101/exhibit gallery. From April to June 2012, 101/exhibit presented Ted Vasin's first exhibition in Miami. The exhibition, entitled "Poison Bliss", continued Vasin’s tradition of using large-scale canvases to capture his truly exceptional drawing abilities, incorporating twisted iconography, hallucinations and an uncomfortably skewed vantage point.