Based in New York
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2023 — International Studio & Curatorial Program, artist residency, Brooklyn, New York
2023 — Curatorial Program for Research: Hello New York! artist-in-residence, Brooklyn, New York
2016 — The Watermill Center International Summer Program, New York
AWARDS | GRANTS
2022 — DOK Leipzig, official selection, Germany
2022 — Virtual Reality Experience VRE, official selection, Italy
2022 — Athens Digital Arts Festival, FutuRetro, official selection, Greece
2022 — FIVARS Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, official selection, and Grand Jury Prize, Canada
2020 — Cannes XR Development Showcase, finalist, France
2019 — Diversity Grant, CalArts, USA
2018 — Lilian Disney scholarship, CalArts, USA
2017 — Puffin Foundation grant, NY, USA
2017 — Indiana Humanities grant, USA
2014 — World Press Photo, Amsterdam
ART | SCIENCE CONFERENCES | PANELS | JURY
2024 — speaker on the subject of spatial computing in visual art, Bevhacks 2024 coding hackathon, The Brearley School, New York
2023 — speaker in “Speaking Volumes”, symposium on volumetric images, OCAD University and Ontario Tech University, online, Canada
2022 — panelist in “Digital Nomadism and Virtual Production”, Cyber Attack: Digital Art and Activism, NORDWIND, online, Berlin, Germany
2022 — jury member for a digital art residency at Chimera Platform, London, UK
2022 — speaker in an educational program for XR creators, “Digital Autumn: Sensations,” at Less Media Group, online, Kazakhstan
2020 — game developer of XR experience “Sentiments”, participant in Snap Creative Challenge with Virginia Tech and Microsoft at ACM IMX, online, USA
AUGMENTED REALITY MOBILE APPS
2023 — “Hip Hop Lit”, literature study Augmented Reality experience, The Department of English, collab with Dr. Tyechia Thompson, Virginia Tech - PURELAND, USA
2022 — “Dragzina”, holographic drag performance, collab with Masha Vorslav - PURELAND, USA - Russia - UK
2021 — “Pain”, holographic music video, collab with Yevtya - IPURELAND, USA - Russia
SOLO SHOWS | SCREENINGS | PUBLIC DIGITAL EXPERIENCES
2023 — “Lydia’s Piloting a Hovercraft Into The Virtual Reality Of Human Consciousness“, prototype synthetic physical and virtual reality performance, ISCP Fall Open Studios, Brooklyn, New York
2022 — “Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend”, Virtual Reality installation, Osnova gallery, Loop Barcelona, Almanac Barcelona hotel, Spain
2022 — “From Carnival to Russian Drag” installation, Spring/Break Art Show, Los Angeles
2021 — "Last March", video installation, Cube.Moscow
2021 — "Last March", video installation, Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg
2020 — “Scan | Klaxon”, 11.12 Gallery, Moscow
2019 — “Klaxon”, CalArts Bijou Fest, Los Angeles
2017 — “The Last March”, collaboration with Naum Medovoy, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2017 — “Ice” screening at Artdocfest film festival, Moscow
2015 — “Sacred Procession”, Baltic Biennale of Photography, Kaliningrad
2015 — “Children: personal space”, Gallery Peresvetov, Moscow
2014 — “Moscow Nightlife”, Moscow Biennial of Photography
2013 — “Black Sea Vacations”, Biennial Fashion and Style in Photography, Moscow
2012 — “Empty Hills. The Space of Joy”, Galerie Iragui, Moscow
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS | BIENNALES | FESTIVALS | SCREENINGS | PUBLIC DIGITAL EXPERIENCES
2023 — “Artist in the Studio“ metaverse experience, Quantum Critic, gallery Myymälä2, Helsinki, Finland
2022 — “Dragzina”, Augmented Reality experience, DOK Leipzig film festival, Extended Reality: DOK Neuland. THX 4 Nothing, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany
2022 — “Dragzina”, Augmented Reality experience, VRE22 Virtual Reality Experience, MEET Digital Culture Center, Milano, Italy
2022 — “Dragzina”, Augmented Reality experience, 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival: FutuRetro, Athens, Greece
2022 — “Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend” Virtual Reality experience, FIVARS Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, Toronto
2021 — “PAIN”, Augmented Reality experience, Biennale Art for the Future, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
2020 — “Scan“, BRIDGE TO METAVERSE, Snark.art
2020 — “Möbius Loop” by a-s-t-r-a gallery, Spring/Break Art Show, New York
2019 — “Klaxon“, CYFEST-12: ID ART:TECH, Annual International Festival of Media Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 — “Darling Angel”, film screening, Redcat, Los Angeles
2019 — “The Last Dodo”, theater performance, CalArts Digital Expo, Los Angeles
2019 — “Ice”, Anhydrite Biennial of Media Arts, Barbarossahöhle, Thuringia, Germany
2018 — “Moscow - New York", film screening, EEP Berlin
2018 — “SCAN”, 8th Tashkent International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Tashkent
2016 — “ICE”, FADA: House of Madness, Watermill Center, Water Mill, New York
2015 — “Sacred Procession”, The 5th Photoquai, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
2015 — “GAZ. Hope”, The 6th Moscow Biennial, Austrian Cultural Forum, Moscow
2015 — “Borderlands”, Gallery for Russian Arts and Design, London
2014 — “Twelve Reflective Photographers”, Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg
2014 — “Young”, GUP Gallery, Amsterdam
2011 — “Life in Motion”, International Center of Photography, New York
EDUCATION
2020-2022 — Virginia Tech, STEM MFA in Creative Technologies, School of Visual Arts in College of Architecture, Arts, and Design
2018-2019 — California Institute of the Arts, MFA Program in Film and Video
2010-2013 — Rodchenko Art School Moscow, BFA in Photography and Multimedia
SCHOLARLY WORK
2022 — Essay “ORIENTATION DEVICE: poiesis of documentary volumetric video for augmented reality; location-aware interactive mise-en-scène; applied queer phenomenology; the potential of procedural worldmaking in the future”, Master of Fine Arts thesis, Virginia Tech, USA
ART FAIRS | ART BOOK FAIRS
2022 — Loop Barcelona
2020 — ENTER art fair, Copenhagen
2020 — CADAF Online
2019 — Printed Matter Art Fair Book, Los Angeles
2018 — I Never Read Art Book Fair, Basel
2018 — VOLUMES, independent book festival, Zurich
PUBLICATIONS
Apollo (UK), ARTnews (USA), Art Observed (USA), The New York Times (USA), The Guardian (UK), Le Monde (France), TV Rain (Russia), L’Express (France), Courrier International (Italy), IL (Italy), Fluter (Germany), China Newsweek (China), L’Insense Photo (France), DUMMY (Germany), Calvert Journal (UK), YET magazine (Switzerland), Revista Colada (Argentina), Extra Extra (Netherlands), Reporters Without Borders (France).