06.07.2021

Safronova Mariya

Mariya Safronova was born in 1979 in the city of Rzhev, Tver Region.

In 2003 she graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov (monumental workshop), in 2011 — Institute of Contemporary Art and the School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops”.

Mariya Safronova was born in 1979 in the city of Rzhev, Tver Region.

Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in 2003. Included in the Top 100 recognized artists of Russia according to InArt. In 2017, it was included in the 49ART Russian investment art rating, representing outstanding contemporary artists under the age of 50.

Finalist of the Kandinsky Prize in 2012, nominee of 2014 and 2017.

2016 — Selection of a curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts annual summer auction, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2015 — Laureate of the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize in the nomination “The Best Work of Visual Art”.

The works of Maria Safronova are in the collections of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow, Russia), the Erarta Museum and Gallery of Modern Art (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Museum of Women and Children (Beijing, China), as well as in various private collections in Russia and abroad.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2018 — Experimental field. Gallery 21, WINZAVOD, Moscow
2017 — Solar wind. VLADEY, WINZAVOD, Moscow
2017 — Past and Present. House of Culture, Rzhev
2016 — General private. MMOMA and Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2015 — A general view game. Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2015 — SUBTITLE. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, parallel program of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2013 — Daily routine. MMOMA, Moscow
2010 — Habitat. Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019 — Ural Industrial Biennale, the main project, Yekaterinburg
2019 — Art Collaboration. Biennale of Contemporary Art, Syktyvkar
2019 — ArtVilnius. Congress Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 — R_E_volution. Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
2018 — Russia. Realism. XXI Century. Russian Museum, State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan
2018 — Second Novosibirsk International Triennale of Graphics. Novosibirsk Art Museum, Novosibirsk
2018 — The noise of time. National Gallery of Komi, Syktyvkar
2018 — Tenderness. Ark Gallery, Moscow
2018 — 18 +/- voluntary self-discipline. Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2018 — Along the edges. VDNH, pavilion "Optics", Moscow
2018 — Disciplinary spaces. Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg
2018 — Beware, children! Museum of St. Petersburg Art (XX - XXI centuries), St. Petersburg
2018 — The ideal age. Special project “Focus” of the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, MOMMA, Moscow
2017 — Bruegel. Inverted world. Artplay, Moscow
2017 — Satellite over Monchegorsk. MOMMA, Cultural Center, Monchegorsk
2016 — 19/92 First. MMOMA, Moscow
2016 — Sergey Kuryokhin Award (2015). Center for Contemporary Art by Sergey Kurekhin, St. Petersburg
2016 — New storytellers in Russian art of the XX - XXI centuries. Russian State Museum St. Petersburg
2016 — Look at this world. Museum of Women and Children, Beijing, China
2016 — Curator’s Choice. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston USA
2014 — Don’t you know who I am? Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 — Exhibition of nominees for the Kandinsky Prize. Cinema "Drummer", Moscow
2013 — The study of research. MMOMA, Moscow
2012 — Exhibition of nominees for the Kandinsky Prize. Cinema "Drummer", Moscow
2012 — Rejected Reality. Artplay, parallel project of the 3rd Youth Biennale, Moscow
2012 — Incomplete analysis. Strategic project of the 3rd Youth Biennale, Moscow
2011 — Today / Tomorrow. MMOMA, Moscow

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