Born in Moscow in 1984, Anastasia Samoylova moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation. She will present a solo exhibition of her ongoing project FloodZone at USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa in January 2020. With over 80 photographs, the book of the project will be published by Steidl in September 2019.
FloodZone is Anastasia Samoylova’s photographic account of life on the climatic knife-edge of the southern United States. It is an expansive photographic project that began in 2016 reflecting and responding to the problem of rising sea levels through a striking case study of Miami.
Her earlier body of work, Landscape Sublime, explores how social-media images and the repetition of certain motifs informed an understanding of natural phenomena.
Among others, she has exhibited at the Aperture Foundation, New York; the Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston; at festivals in Brazil, Belgium, France, Holland, China, South Korea and Germany. Samoylova has published her work in Smithsonian Magazine, FOAM, Art Press, Monocle and Bloomberg Businessweek and has completed a number of artist residencies including Mass MoCA, Prairie Center for the Arts, Latitude Chicago and ArtCenter South Florida.
FloodZone is Anastasia Samoylova’s photographic account of life on the climatic knife-edge of the southern United States. It is an expansive photographic project that began in 2016 reflecting and responding to the problem of rising sea levels through a striking case study of Miami.
Her earlier body of work, Landscape Sublime, explores how social-media images and the repetition of certain motifs informed an understanding of natural phenomena.
Among others, she has exhibited at the Aperture Foundation, New York; the Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston; at festivals in Brazil, Belgium, France, Holland, China, South Korea and Germany. Samoylova has published her work in Smithsonian Magazine, FOAM, Art Press, Monocle and Bloomberg Businessweek and has completed a number of artist residencies including Mass MoCA, Prairie Center for the Arts, Latitude Chicago and ArtCenter South Florida.
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Artist talk Anastasia Samoylova at Paris Photo 2019
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With her extensive, multiyear photo series “FloodZone,” Samoylova homes in on the effects of rising sea levels in the southern United States and renders our climate crisis as something gradual, inconspicuous—a creeping and lethal menace that can feel deceptively ordinary. Akin to Didion’s exacting prose, Samoylova’s incisive visual poetry marries documentary to anxious premonitions, montaging mirage with somber reality. The buoyant tropical pinks that appear throughout the series declare the hubris of a place which overwhelmingly denies its own sinking fate.
'Roots' shows a fully deracinated tree miraculously standing, its tendril-like roots grasping sandy soil for balance, while 'Camouflage' (both 2017) presents a sidelong image of a lush yet faux tropical forest—reproduced on a tarp and wrapped around a stack of plywood—standing before a chain-link fence. “FloodZone” calls attention to the facades and contradictions of the submerging subtropics that are, to borrow poet Stevie Smith’s turn of phrase, “not waving but drowning".
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MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Education
MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio Art |Bradley University | 2008-2011
MA in Design | Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow | 2003-2008
Exhibitions
2020
FloodZone | solo exhibition | Contemporary Art Museum at USF | Tampa, FL (US)
Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie | group exhibition | Wilhelm-Hack-Museum | Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE)
Americans Looking In. | group exhibition | Center for Book Arts | New York, NY (US)
2019
FloodZone |solo exhibition | New Orleans Photo Alliance | New Orleans, LA (US)
Her Ground: Women Photographing Landscape | group exhibition | Flowers Gallery | London (UK)
Lush Green Tropical Jungle | group exhibition | Dot Fiftyone Gallery | Miami, FL (US)
Smart as Photography | group exhibition | Zephyr | Mannheim (DE)
Altered States of Consciousness | group exhibition | Oolite Arts | Miami, FL (US)
Marilyn Stafford Photo Award exhibition | group exhibition | After Nyne Gallery | London (UK)
Commuter Biannial | group exhibition | Miami, FL (US)
2018
FloodZone | solo exhibition | ArtCenter South Florida | Miami, FL (USA)
Landed | group exhibition | Darkroom Detroit | Detroit, MI (US)
The Meitar Award Exhibition | group exhibition | Tel Aviv (IL)
Dialogue | group exhibition | Galerie Andreas Schmidt | Berlin (DE)
Made in The Studio | group exhibition | Julie Saul Gallery | New York, NY (US)
Voies Off Awards | group exhibition | Arles (FR)
Currents New Media Festival 2018 | group exhibition | Santa Fe, NM (US)
Between a View and a Milestone | group exhibition | ArtCenter/South Florida | Miami (FL)
2017
Landscape Sublime |solo exhibition | Broward College | Pembroke Pines, FL (US)
Re:Collection | group exhibition | Museum of Contemporary Photography | Chicago, IL (US)
International Festival of Photography of Belo Horizonte | group exhibition | Belo Horizonte (BR)
UNSEEN Photo Fair | group exhibition at Thread Count project | Amsterdam (NL)
Indecisive Moment | group exhibition | Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN (US)
Trompe L’oeil | group exhibition | Galerie Protégé | New York, NY (US)
Future Isms | group exhibition | Glass Box Gallery | Seattle, WA (US)
Re/Con | group exhibition | Noise Gallery | Bloomington, IN (US)
I Am A Woman Hear Me Roar | group exhibition | Wynwood Space | Miami, FL (US)
Paradise | group exhibition | The Southern gallery | Charleston, SC (US)
2016
Landscape Sublime | solo exhibition | State University of New York | Geneseo, NY (US)
Landscape Sublime | solo exhibition | Cincinnati Art Underground | Cincinnati, OH (US)
Land Forms | group exhibition | Visual Studies Workshop | Rochester, NY (US)
Loving Earth | group exhibition | Brussels Photo Festival | Brussels (BE)
Suwon Photography Festival | group exhibition | Suwon (KR)
Represent: 29 Women We Admire | group exhibition | Photoville | Brooklyn, NY (US)
High Summer | group exhibition | Foley Gallery | New York, NY (US)
Summer Open | group exhibition curated by Charlotte Cotton | Aperture Foundation | New York, NY (US)
Treading Water | group exhibition curated by Ryan Oskin | Kilroy Metal Ceiling | Brooklyn, NY (US)
The Altered Landscape | group exhibition curated by David F. Heustess | Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN (US)
2015
Landscape Sublime | solo exhibition | Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design | Milwaukee, WI (US)
Landscape Sublime | solo exhibition | Good Children Gallery | New Orleans, LA (US)
Landscape Sublime | solo exhibition | Pearce Gallery | Dunlap, IL (US)
Atmosphere | group exhibition | Eastern Michigan University | Ann Arbor, MI (US)
The Classical Elements | group exhibition | Kinfolk Gallery | Brooklyn, NY (US)
Context 2015 | group exhibition | Filter Photo Gallery | Chicago, IL (US)
Sky | group exhibition curated by Paula Tognarelli | Griffin Museum of Photography | Winchester, MA (US)
Los Angeles Art Association Open Show | group exhibition | Gallery 825 | Los Angeles, CA (US)
2013
5000 Head | solo exhibition | David Erlanson Art Gallery | Decatur, IL (US)
5000 Head | solo exhibition | Contemporary Arts Center | Peoria, IL (US)
2011
5000 Head | solo exhibition | Prairie Center for the Arts | Peoria, IL (US)
Public Art Commissions
2020
Alter park | site-specific installation | Mannheim (DE)
2019
Miami International Airport | site-specific project | Miami, FL (US)
2018
Mount Sinai Medical Center | Miami Beach, FL (US)
Miami International Airport | installation of photographs from the Landscape Sublime project | Miami, FL (US)
2017
Hyde Midtown Miami | mural, commissioned by Jorge Pérez for The Related Group | Miami, FL (US)
Américo Renné Gianetti Municipal Park | installation of art billboards from the Landscape Sublime project | Belo Horizonte (BR)
San Francisco International Airport, SFO Museum | installation of photographs from the Landscape Sublime project | San Francisco, CA (US)
Smartline Miami | Boca Raton, FL (US)
Standard Vision | video projection of the Landscape Sublime series | Los Angeles, CA (US)
2015
O’Hare International Airport, Art Museo at Loews Chicago O’Hare | installation of photographs from the Landscape Sublime project | Chicago, IL (US)
Artist Residencies
2019
Oolite Arts | Miami, FL (US)
2018
Art Center/South Florida | Miami, FL (US)
2017
The Studios at Mass MoCA | North Adams, MA (US)
2016
Fountainhead Studios | Miami, FL (US)
2015
Latitude Chicago | Chicago, IL (US)
2014-2013
Prairie Center for the Arts | Peoria, IL (US)
Publications
2019
Catalogue of the project FloodZone, published by Steidl
2018
‘Landscape Sublime’, Hant Magazin, November
‘And light followed the flight of sound’, One day projects, October
Fotomagazin Edition, September
Digital Foto, September
Fisheye, July
Oxford American, May
2017
ArtPress, October
Kolaj Magazine, issue #20
ArtPress, January
2016
Unseen Magazine
Landscape Sublime, monograph in the In-Between Editions, June
FOAM, International Photography Magazine, April
2015
The Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Competition 2015 Winners Catalog
Exposure, The Society of Photographic Education Journal
Collections
Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, USA
University of Miami Art Collection, USA
ArtSlant Collection, France
Yale University Book Collection, USA
MoMA Library Artist’s Book Collection, USA
Stanford University Book Collection, USA
MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio Art |Bradley University | 2008-2011
MA in Design | Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow | 2003-2008
Exhibitions
2020
FloodZone | solo exhibition | Contemporary Art Museum at USF | Tampa, FL (US)
Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie | group exhibition | Wilhelm-Hack-Museum | Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE)
Americans Looking In. | group exhibition | Center for Book Arts | New York, NY (US)
2019
FloodZone |solo exhibition | New Orleans Photo Alliance | New Orleans, LA (US)
Her Ground: Women Photographing Landscape | group exhibition | Flowers Gallery | London (UK)
Lush Green Tropical Jungle | group exhibition | Dot Fiftyone Gallery | Miami, FL (US)
Smart as Photography | group exhibition | Zephyr | Mannheim (DE)
Altered States of Consciousness | group exhibition | Oolite Arts | Miami, FL (US)
Marilyn Stafford Photo Award exhibition | group exhibition | After Nyne Gallery | London (UK)
Commuter Biannial | group exhibition | Miami, FL (US)
2018
FloodZone | solo exhibition | ArtCenter South Florida | Miami, FL (USA)
Landed | group exhibition | Darkroom Detroit | Detroit, MI (US)
The Meitar Award Exhibition | group exhibition | Tel Aviv (IL)
Dialogue | group exhibition | Galerie Andreas Schmidt | Berlin (DE)
Made in The Studio | group exhibition | Julie Saul Gallery | New York, NY (US)
Voies Off Awards | group exhibition | Arles (FR)
Currents New Media Festival 2018 | group exhibition | Santa Fe, NM (US)
Between a View and a Milestone | group exhibition | ArtCenter/South Florida | Miami (FL)
2017
Landscape Sublime |solo exhibition | Broward College | Pembroke Pines, FL (US)
Re:Collection | group exhibition | Museum of Contemporary Photography | Chicago, IL (US)
International Festival of Photography of Belo Horizonte | group exhibition | Belo Horizonte (BR)
UNSEEN Photo Fair | group exhibition at Thread Count project | Amsterdam (NL)
Indecisive Moment | group exhibition | Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN (US)
Trompe L’oeil | group exhibition | Galerie Protégé | New York, NY (US)
Future Isms | group exhibition | Glass Box Gallery | Seattle, WA (US)
Re/Con | group exhibition | Noise Gallery | Bloomington, IN (US)
I Am A Woman Hear Me Roar | group exhibition | Wynwood Space | Miami, FL (US)
Paradise | group exhibition | The Southern gallery | Charleston, SC (US)
2016
Landscape Sublime | solo exhibition | State University of New York | Geneseo, NY (US)
Landscape Sublime | solo exhibition | Cincinnati Art Underground | Cincinnati, OH (US)
Land Forms | group exhibition | Visual Studies Workshop | Rochester, NY (US)
Loving Earth | group exhibition | Brussels Photo Festival | Brussels (BE)
Suwon Photography Festival | group exhibition | Suwon (KR)
Represent: 29 Women We Admire | group exhibition | Photoville | Brooklyn, NY (US)
High Summer | group exhibition | Foley Gallery | New York, NY (US)
Summer Open | group exhibition curated by Charlotte Cotton | Aperture Foundation | New York, NY (US)
Treading Water | group exhibition curated by Ryan Oskin | Kilroy Metal Ceiling | Brooklyn, NY (US)
The Altered Landscape | group exhibition curated by David F. Heustess | Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN (US)
2015
Landscape Sublime | solo exhibition | Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design | Milwaukee, WI (US)
Landscape Sublime | solo exhibition | Good Children Gallery | New Orleans, LA (US)
Landscape Sublime | solo exhibition | Pearce Gallery | Dunlap, IL (US)
Atmosphere | group exhibition | Eastern Michigan University | Ann Arbor, MI (US)
The Classical Elements | group exhibition | Kinfolk Gallery | Brooklyn, NY (US)
Context 2015 | group exhibition | Filter Photo Gallery | Chicago, IL (US)
Sky | group exhibition curated by Paula Tognarelli | Griffin Museum of Photography | Winchester, MA (US)
Los Angeles Art Association Open Show | group exhibition | Gallery 825 | Los Angeles, CA (US)
2013
5000 Head | solo exhibition | David Erlanson Art Gallery | Decatur, IL (US)
5000 Head | solo exhibition | Contemporary Arts Center | Peoria, IL (US)
2011
5000 Head | solo exhibition | Prairie Center for the Arts | Peoria, IL (US)
Public Art Commissions
2020
Alter park | site-specific installation | Mannheim (DE)
2019
Miami International Airport | site-specific project | Miami, FL (US)
2018
Mount Sinai Medical Center | Miami Beach, FL (US)
Miami International Airport | installation of photographs from the Landscape Sublime project | Miami, FL (US)
2017
Hyde Midtown Miami | mural, commissioned by Jorge Pérez for The Related Group | Miami, FL (US)
Américo Renné Gianetti Municipal Park | installation of art billboards from the Landscape Sublime project | Belo Horizonte (BR)
San Francisco International Airport, SFO Museum | installation of photographs from the Landscape Sublime project | San Francisco, CA (US)
Smartline Miami | Boca Raton, FL (US)
Standard Vision | video projection of the Landscape Sublime series | Los Angeles, CA (US)
2015
O’Hare International Airport, Art Museo at Loews Chicago O’Hare | installation of photographs from the Landscape Sublime project | Chicago, IL (US)
Artist Residencies
2019
Oolite Arts | Miami, FL (US)
2018
Art Center/South Florida | Miami, FL (US)
2017
The Studios at Mass MoCA | North Adams, MA (US)
2016
Fountainhead Studios | Miami, FL (US)
2015
Latitude Chicago | Chicago, IL (US)
2014-2013
Prairie Center for the Arts | Peoria, IL (US)
Publications
2019
Catalogue of the project FloodZone, published by Steidl
2018
‘Landscape Sublime’, Hant Magazin, November
‘And light followed the flight of sound’, One day projects, October
Fotomagazin Edition, September
Digital Foto, September
Fisheye, July
Oxford American, May
2017
ArtPress, October
Kolaj Magazine, issue #20
ArtPress, January
2016
Unseen Magazine
Landscape Sublime, monograph in the In-Between Editions, June
FOAM, International Photography Magazine, April
2015
The Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Competition 2015 Winners Catalog
Exposure, The Society of Photographic Education Journal
Collections
Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, USA
University of Miami Art Collection, USA
ArtSlant Collection, France
Yale University Book Collection, USA
MoMA Library Artist’s Book Collection, USA
Stanford University Book Collection, USA