Nikita Shokhov is a New York-based artist. He has been exploring various aspects of the human condition in his visual art practice; some of them are humanism in modern technology, the human unconscious, the carnivalesque, whiteness and blackness, and queer phenomenology. His works discourse critical thinking, philosophy, documentary approach, and political and social agendas. Nikita has always worked with lens-based media, from traditional photography to volumetric cinematic forms. In his current practice, he uses a real-time 3D graphics engine, immersive media, and moving images, synthesizing physical performance and interactive digital worlds in a unified time-space.

His collaborative drag Augmented Reality performance Dragzina was officially selected at DOK Leipzig 2022 (Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig), VRE22 Virtual Reality Experience (MEET Digital Culture Center, Milano), and Athens Digital Arts Festival (Greece). His collaborative Virtual Reality film, a laboratory of understanding whiteness and blackness, Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend was shown at Loop Barcelona and awarded at FIVARS (Canada). In 2014, World Press Photo (Netherlands) recognized his Utrish, a photography series of picturesque documentary portraits of nudists on a seashore.

In New York, Nikita participated in three artist/theater residencies: the International Studio and Curatorial Program, the Curatorial Program for Research: Hello New York!, and the Watermill Center International Summer Program. Nikita had extensive academic practice in spatial interactive storytelling at Virginia Tech (School of Visual Arts), immersive filmmaking and hybrid Virtual Reality theater at CalArts (School of Film/Video and School of Theater), and photography at the Rodchenko Art School Moscow.