Anastasia Samoylova (b. 1984, Moscow; lives in Miami) is an American artist who moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation. By utilizing tools and strategies related to digital media and commercial photography, her work explores notions of environmentalism, consumerism and the picturesque.
Her books FloodZone and Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova & Walker Evans were published by Steidl, her book Image Cities is out with Hatje Cantz. Her works have been presented in solo exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum of Art; Orlando Museum of Art; Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa; The Print Center Philadelphia, the Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, C/O Berlin, Germany, and the KBr Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona, Spain, among others. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Perez Art Museum, Miami; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; among others.
Anastasia Samoylova was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022 and received the first KBr Photo Award by KBr Fundación MAPFRE. In the Fall/Winter of 2024/25, two major institutional exhibitions of her work are on view at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Saatchi Gallery in London. Her monograph Adaptations has just been published by Thames and Hudson.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Adaptations, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Image Cities, Galerie—Peter—Sillem, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Image Cities, Museo Ruso de Málaga, Spain
Image Cities, Da2, Salamanca, Spain
Floridas, Amerika Haus, Munich, Germany
FloodZone, UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, Baltimore, USA
2023
Image Cities, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
Image Cities, Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona, Spain
Floridas, C/O Berlin, Deutschland
Flood Zone, Up Gallery, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
Flood Zone, Phakt Cultural Center, Rennes, France
Image Cities, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2022
Flood Zone, Guernsey Museum, Guernsey, UK
Flood Zone, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
FloodZone, Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
FloodZone, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Floridas, Coral Gables Museum, Miami, FL
Floridas, Galerie—Peter—Sillem, Frankfurt/Main
Floridas, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid
2021
Flood Zone, History Miami Museum, FL, USA
Flood Zone, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Grand Canyon, Museée des beaux-arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
Floridas, Paris Photo, Paris
FloodZone, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Coming Waters, GAlerie Caroline O'Breen, Amsterdam, NL
Flood Zone, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, ES
2018
FloodZone, ArtCenter South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
2017
Landscape Sublime, Broward College, Pembroke Pines, FL
2016
Landscape Sublime, State University of New York Geneseo, NY
Landscape Sublime, Cincinnati Art Underground, Cincinnati, OH
2015
Landscape Sublime, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
Landscape Sublime, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Landscape Sublime, Ear In The Envelope, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2020
Nach uns die Sintflut, Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum & Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2019
On Water, Salisbury University Gallery, MD
Her Land, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
Lush Green Tropical Jungle. Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, FL
Americans Looking In, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Altered States of Consciousness, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
Smart as Photography, Zephyr, Mannheim, Germany
Marilyn Stafford Photo Award exhibition, After Nyne Gallery, London, UK
2018
Landed. Darkroom Detroit, Detroit, MI
The Meitar Award Exhibition. Tel Aviv, Israel
Dialogue. Galerie Andreas Schmidt, Berlin, Germany
Made in The Studio, Julie Saul Gallery, NY
Voies Off Awards, Arles, FR
Currents New Media Festival 2018, Santa Fe, NM
Between a View and a Milestone, ArtCenter South Florida, FL
2017
Re:Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Belo Horizonte’s International Festival of Photography, Brazil
Thread Count, Unseen, Amsterdam, NE
Indecisive Moment, Purdue University, IN Trompe L’oeil, Galerie Protégé, New York, NY
Future Isms, Glass Box Gallery, Seattle, WA
Re/Con, Noise Gallery, Bloomington, IN
I Am A Woman Hear Me Roar, Wynwood Space, Miami, FL
Paradise, The Southern gallery, Charleston, SC
2016
Land Forms, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Loving Earth, Brussels Photo Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Suwon Photography Festival, Suwon, South Korea Represent: 29 Women We Admire, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY High Summer, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Open, Aperture Foundation, curated by Charlotte Cotton, New York, NY
Treading Water, curated by Ryan Oskin, Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn, NY
The Altered Landscape, curated by David F. Heustess, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
What Are You Trying To Say? SVA Curatorial Space, New York, NY
2015
Atmosphere. Eastern Michigan University, Ann Arbor, MI
The Classical Elements. Kinfolk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Context 2015. Juror: Michal Raz-Russo, Curator/Art Institute of Chicago. Filter Photo Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sky. Curator: Paula Tognarelli. Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Los Angeles Art Association Open Show. Juror: Susan Cross, Curator/MASS MoCA. Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Permanent Collections
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum; Ludwigshafen, Germany
Perez Art Museum Miami, FL
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
University of Miami Art Collection, Miami, FL
ArtSlant Collection, Paris, France
Artist Residencies
2019
Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
2018
Art Center South Florida, FL
2017
The Studios at Mass MoCA, MA
2016
Fountainhead Studios, Miami, FL
2015
Latitude Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014
Prairie Center for the Arts, Peoria, IL
Academic Appointments
2015- 2016
Assistant Professor of Photography, Head of Photography Department, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, MA
2012-2015
Associate Professor of Art, Head of Photography Department, Illinois Central College, IL
Education
MFA Bradley University, 2011
MA Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 2007