Based in New York
SELECT SHOWS
2024 — FIVARS (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, Toronto) — “Hip Hop Lit“ — AR experience
2024 — Plexus Projects, New York — “Artist in the Studio“ — metaverse performance
2023 — ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York) — “Lydia’s Piloting a Hovercraft Into The Virtual Reality Of Human Consciousness“ — live performance/immersive digital environments
2023 — Quantum Critic (gallery Myymälä2, Finland) — “Artist in the Studio“ — metaverse performance
2023 — Apple App Store, worldwide (with Dr. Tyechia Thompson, Virginia Tech) — “Hip Hop Lit” — iOS AR experience
2022 — Loop Barcelona, Spain (with Osnova gallery) — “Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend” — cinematic VR installation
2022 — Spring/Break Art Show, Los Angeles — “From Carnival to Russian Drag” (“Dragzina“ and “Scan“) — AR installation/photography
2022 — Apple App Store, worldwide (with Masha Vorslav) — “Dragzina” — iOS AR performance
2022 — DOK Leipzig film festival (Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig) — “Dragzina” — AR experience
2022 — VRE22 Virtual Reality Experience (MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan) — “Dragzina” — AR experience
2022 — Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece — “Dragzina” — AR experience
2022 — FIVARS (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, Toronto) — “Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend” — VR experience
2021 — Biennale Art for the Future (Multimedia Art Museum Moscow) — “PAIN” — AR experience
2021 — Apple App Store, worldwide (with Yevtya) — “Pain” — iOS AR performance
2021 — Cube.Moscow — "Last March" — immersive video installation
2021 — Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg — "Last March" — video installation/architectural video mapping
2020 — Spring/Break Art Show, New York (with a-s-t-r-a gallery) — “Scan” — photography
2020 — 11.12 Gallery, Moscow — “Scan | Klaxon” — photography/VR installation
2020 — ENTER art fair, Copenhagen — “Scan“ — photography
2020 — CADAF — “Scan“ — photography, video
2019 — CYFEST (Annual International Festival of Media Art, St. Petersburg) — “Klaxon“ — VR experience
2019 — Redcat, Los Angeles — “Darling Angel” — film
2019 — CalArts Digital Expo, Santa Clarita — “The Last Dodo” — live theater/VR
2019 — Anhydrite Biennial of Media Arts, Barbarossahöhle, Thuringia, Germany (with In-Art Gallery) — “Ice” — video installation
2019 — CalArts Bijou Fest, Santa Clarita — “Klaxon”, VR
2018 — EEP Berlin, Germany — “Moscow - New York" (from “Last March”) — film
2017 — Moscow Museum of Modern Art — “The Last March” (with Naum Medovoy) — video installation
2017 — Artdocfest film festival, Moscow — “Ice” — film
2016 — Watermill Center, New York — “Ice” — video installation
2015 — Baltic Biennale of Photography, Kaliningrad — “Sacred Procession” — photography installation
2015 — Gallery Peresvetov, Moscow — “Children: personal space” — photography installation
2015 — Photoquai Biennale (Musée du Quai Branly and Eifel Tower, Paris) — “Sacred Procession” — photography
2015 — Moscow Biennial (Austrian Cultural Forum, Moscow) — “GAZ. Hope” — photography installation
2015 — Gallery for Russian Arts and Design, London — “Scan” — photography installation
2014 — World Press Photo, worldwide — “Utrish“ — photography
2014 — Moscow Biennial of Photography — “Moscow Nightlife” — photography
2014 — Manifesta (St. Petersburg) — “Rublevka” — photography
2014 — GUP Gallery, Amsterdam — “Black Sea” — photography
2013 — Biennial Fashion and Style in Photography, Moscow — “Black Sea Vacations” — photography
2012 — Galerie Iragui, Moscow — “Empty Hills. The Space of Joy” — photography installation
2011 — ICP (International Center of Photography, New York) — “Life in Motion” — photography
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, Water Mill, New York
SELECT AWARDS | GRANTS
2024 — FIVARS (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, Canada) — Official Selection — “Hip Hop Lit“
2022 — DOK Leipzig, Germany — Official Selection — “Dragzina“
2022 — VRE (Virtual Reality Experience, Milan, Italy) — Official Selection — “Dragzina“
2022 — Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece — “Dragzina“
2022 — FIVARS (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, Canada) — Grand Jury Prize — “Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend”
2020 — Cannes XR Development Showcase, France (with Kaleidoscope) — Finalist — “Klaxon“
2017 — Puffin Foundation grant, New York — “Klaxon“
2017 — Indiana Humanities grant, USA — “Klaxon“
2014 — World Press Photo, Amsterdam — “Utrish“
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”, a participant in Snap Creative Challenge with Virginia Tech and Microsoft at ACM IMX, online, USA
EDUCATION
2020-2022 — Virginia Tech, MFA in Creative Technologies
2018-2019 — California Institute of the Arts, MFA Program in Film and Video (incomplete)
2010-2013 — Rodchenko Art School Moscow, BFA in Photography and Multimedia
SCHOLARLY WORK
2022 — “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 BOOK SHOWS
2019 — Printed Matter Art Fair Book, Los Angeles (with Samopal Books) — “Scan“ and “If Our President Was an Ordinary Man” — photography art books
2018 — I Never Read Art Book Fair, Basel (with Samopal Books) — “If Our President Was an Ordinary Man” — photography art book
2018 — VOLUMES, independent book festival, Zurich (with Samopal Books)
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).