Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov (Russian: ÐлÑÑÌ ÐоÌÑиÑÐ¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ ÐабакоÌв; born September 30, 1933), is a RussianâAmerican conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on Long Island, United States.