Yulia Spiridonova is a contemporary artist who works with photography, archive images, collage, and installation. Yulia was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1986 and currently lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. She has participated in a number of exhibitions in Russia, the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands. Yulia graduated from The Moscow State University in 2008 and Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014. She is currently an MFA candidate at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2024). She is represented by Osnova gallery, Moscow, Russia, and Fotodepartament gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

Yulia Spiridonova

(b. 1986)

EDUCATION

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA. MFA in Photography candidate — 2024

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA. Post-Baccalaureate in Photography — 2013

Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. Student Affiliate — 2010

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. BA in Sociology — 2008

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

‘DRIFT’, MassArt’s Doran Graduate Gallery, Boston, MA –– April, 2023

‘All School Show’, Student Life Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and DesignBoston, MA –– April, 2023

‘The Unicorn and the Lost Kingdom’, BÉTON Center of Visual Culture, Moscow, Russia — 2022

‘Gentle Tuesday’, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia — 2019

‘Kvartirnik #6’, Noémie Baumann Space, Moscow, Russia –– 2019

‘Art Berlin’, Osnova Gallery, Berline, Germany –– 2018

‘Presence’, International Festival of Contemporary Photography, Saint Petersburg,

Russia –– 2017

‘Deep inside', Main project, 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow,

Russia — 2016

‘Extended Memory', Aff Galerie, Berlin, Germany — 2016

‘Brownian motion experiments', The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow,

Russia — 2015

‘Neither you nor I', Solo Show, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia — 2015

‘Are you aware of the war?', Red Square Gallery, Moscow, Russia — 2014

‘Noetica', Massachusetts College Of Art and Design, Boston, MA, USA — 2014

‘Carousel V', New Art Center, Newton, MA, USA — 2014

‘Away', Student Life Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, USA—2013

‘Crying festival', represented by Gallery of Classical Photography, Moscow Photographic Salon Photo Fair, Moscow, Russia — 2013

‘Off the wall', Taiga Space, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 2013

‘Post_', Student Life Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA,

USA — 2013

‘Raw', Solo Show, Fotodepartament Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 2013

‘Reality, decoration', Group Show, BIKCIM Library of V.V. Mayakovskogo, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 2012

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

https://gnomicbook.com/products/primal-sight

http://yogurtmagazine.com/journal/yulia-spiridinova-neither-you-nor-i/

http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/29648/1/yulia-spiridonova-photographing-sensuality-i... soviet-russia


http://www.art-magazin.de/fotografie/akt/16358-bstr-akt-now-yulia-spiridonova#118905-img-

http://anewnothing.com/yulia-spiridonova-margo-ovcharenko/

https://calvertjournal.com/articles/show/6299/moscow-young-art-biennale-deep-inside

https://calvertjournal.com/lists/show/6065/21-portrait-photographers-from-the-new-east

https://www.yet-magazine.com/post/focus-on-russia-yulia-spiridonova

http://aroundart.ru/2015/07/07/yulia-spiridonova/