Anastasia Samoylova

Anastasia Samoylova
Born1984 (age 40–41)
Moscow, Russia
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationMA Russian State University for the Humanities
MFA Bradley University
Occupations
  • Photographer
  • visual artist
AwardsFundación MAPFRE

Anastasia Samoylova (born in 1984, Moscow) is a Russian-born American artist working through documentary and studio photography on landscape and environmental research such as sea rising sea in South Florida.[1][2]

Education and early life

Born in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, she relocated to Miami Beach, Florida, in 2016, where her visual investigation FloodZone started to develop.[3]

She holds a master's degree from Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia (2007), and an MFA from Bradley University (2011), in Peoria, Illinois.[4][5]

Work

Anastasia Samoylova's work investigate changes in the landscape of coastal cities in the United States and beyond. Her work is mainly focused on South Florida, where she is based, and Miami Beach architectural landmarks such as the Shore Apartments take part in her artistic oeuvre.[6][2]

Recent presentations of Samoylova's work were exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; C/O Berlin, Germany; Fundación MAPFRE, Spain; George Eastman Museum, New York; Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; and Kunst Haus Wien, Austria, among others.[7]

Her work has been featured in publications such as The New Yorker, Wired, and Foam. She was granted artistic residences at Latitute Chicago, in 2015, and at Oolite Arts, in Miami between 2018 and 2019.[8][5]

In 2021, the film Playtime by French filmmaker Jacques Tati, sparked her interest in developing the photographic project Image Cities, which covers traveling and photographing 17 cities across the globe. The selection criteria was based on the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) list, which highlights urban and economic centers around the world. Among the cities were London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Toronto, Milan, Frankfurt, Mexico City, Madrid, Brussels, Moscow, and others.[1]

The exhibition FloodZone was presented at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia, and at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, in 2022.[3][9]

In 2024, The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, presented a traveling iteration of Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone, a major career survey to date including over forty artworks by Samoylova. The exhibition touches on climate crisis and environmental concerns through landscape photographic imagery.[7]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art organized a two-person show for its 2024-2025 exhibition calendar featuring Samoylova's work and Walker Evans photographs. The exhibition research and visual relation between both artists expanded into a publication launched in 2022 and published by Thames and Hudson.[10][2][11]

Personal life

Samoylova became an American citizen in 2021.[12]

Collections

Samoylova's work is included in US-based and international museum collections such as the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Illinois.[7][13]

Awards and Honors

In 2022, Anastasia Samoylova was shortlisted for the German award Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.[14] She was the 2023 winner of the KBr Photo Award by Fundación MAPFRE, Spain.[15]

Publications

  • Flood Zone (2019). Göttingen: Steidl. ISBN 978-3958296336.[7]
  • Anastasia Samoylova & Walker Evans: Floridas (2022). Göttingen: Steidl. ISBN 978-3969990070.[11]
  • Anastasia Samoylova: Image Cities (2023). Berlin: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-5480-4[16]
  • Anastasia Samoylova (2024). Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500027189.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b LensCulture, Anastasia Samoylova |. "Image Cities - Photographs by Anastasia Samoylova | Interview by Gregory Eddi Jones". LensCulture. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  2. ^ a b c Curated, Something (2024-01-15). "Anastasia Samoylova's Seductive Images Document the Fragility of Florida". Something Curated. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  3. ^ a b "Climate Change as You've Never Seen It Before: "FloodZone" by Anastasia Samoylova". Vogue. 2022-01-31. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  4. ^ "Anastasia Samoylova". www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  5. ^ a b "Anastasia Samoylova - College of Liberal Arts - Purdue University". www.cla.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  6. ^ "DBPFP22: Anastasia Samoylova | The Photographers Gallery". thephotographersgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  7. ^ a b c d "Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone - UMBC". Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  8. ^ "Anastasia Samoylova". Oolite Arts. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  9. ^ "FloodZone at George Eastman Museum, NY". George Eastman Museum. Retrieved Mar 19, 2024.
  10. ^ Samoylova, Anastasia (2024). Anastasia Samoylova. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500027189.
  11. ^ a b Campany, David; Groff, Lauren (2022). Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova, Walker Evans (1st ed.). Göttingen, Germany: Steidl. ISBN 978-3-96999-007-0.
  12. ^ Skelton, Flossie (25 February 2021). ""A condensed symbol of the country at large": Anastasia Samoylova on the starkly divided state of Florida". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  13. ^ "Collections – MoCP". collections.mocp.org. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  14. ^ "Anastasia Samoylova | C/O Berlin". co-berlin.org. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  15. ^ Adán, Cristina Muñoz (2021-11-05). "Anastasia Samoylova, winner of the KBr Photo Award %". Fundación MAPFRE. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  16. ^ Samoylova, Anastasia (2023). Wieck, Anna (ed.). Anastasia Samoylova, Image cities. KBr Photo Award. Fundación MAPFRE. Berlin: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-5480-4.
  17. ^ "Anastasia Samoylova: Adaptation". Thames & Hudson USA. Retrieved 2024-03-19.