Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA. MFA in Photography — 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
'Leftovers', Curated by Yorgos Efthymiadis, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA — January, 2025
' Heirloom Convoy', 4th Annual MassArt Graduate Alumni Exhibition, MassArt x SoWa Gallery, Boston, MA — September–October, 2024
‘Production Prize Exhibition’, Adjective Art & Framing, Boston, MA — July–August, 2024
‘Lonely among Us: MassArt MFA Photography 2024 Thesis Exhibition’, Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY — May–June, 2024
‘Emergence: MFA 2024 Thesis Exhibition’, MassArt’s Doran Graduate Gallery, Boston, MA — April–June, 2024
‘MassArt’s 2024 MFA Thesis’, MassArt x SoWa Gallery, Boston, MA — April–May, 2024
‘Fresh Faces’, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA — January, 2024
‘Face It’, Pano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA — January, 2024
‘Fay Chandler EMERGING Art Exhibition’, City of Boston Arts and Culture, Boston, MA — December, 2023
Holiday Small Works Sale’, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA — December, 2023
‘In Dialogue’, MassArt’s Doran Graduate Gallery, Boston, MA — September, 2023
‘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
ARTIST TALKS
Flux(us) Artists’ Round Table Discussion (Moderator), Harvard University, Boston, MA — November, 2024
Sleight of Hand: Photography and Creative Process Workshop on InDesign, Harvard University, Boston, MA — October, 2024
Graduate Thesis Artist Talk, DMC Hall, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA — May, 2023
Sleight of Hand Sleight of Mind studio photography seminar (Artist Talk), Harvard University, Boston, MA — September, 2023
Artist Talk, MassArt x SoWa Graduate Gallery, Boston, MA — April, 2023
AWARDS
MASS MoCA Residencies Massachusetts College of Art and Design Fellowship — 2025
Adjective Production Prize (Honorable Mention) — 2024
Abelardo Morell Thesis Prize, MassArt, Boston, MA — 2024
Anderson Ranch Scholarship, MassArt, Boston, MA — 2023
Graduate Foundation Scholarship, MassArt, Boston, MA — 2022–2024
Graduate Dean's Scholarship, MassArt, Boston, MA — 2022–2024
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
https://phmuseum.com/projects/unseen-presence-homeland-hues
https://boldjourney.com/meet-yulia-spiridonova/
https://shoutoutla.com/meet-yulia-spiridonova-artist-photographer/
https://afvs.fas.harvard.edu/news/92-seattle-staff-exhibition-show-fluxus
https://benrubigallery.com/exhibition/732/lonely-among-us
https://g-a-s-p-m-a-g.com/defenseandresistance/juliaspiridonova/
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/efrem-zelony-mindell-primal-sight
http://yogurtmagazine.com/journal/yulia-spiridinova-neither-you-nor-i/
http://www.art-magazin.de/fotografie/akt/16358-bstr-akt-now-yulia-spiridonova
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
https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/6299/moscow-young-art-biennale-deep-inside
https://fotoroom.co/neither-you-nor-i-yulia-spiridonova/
https://aroundart.org/2016/01/26/glavnye-raboty-2015/