Draft:Katya Muromtseva

Муромцева, Екатерина Львовна

Katya Muromtseva (Russian: Катя Муромцева, Екатерина Львовна Муромцева; born 12 may 1990) is a Russian artist.

Biography
Born on May 12, 1990, Katya Muromtseva is an artist with a diverse educational background. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2012, and later pursued studies at the Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, where she was mentored by Igor Mukhin. Muromtseva's artistic journey took her through various residencies, including stints at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (2018 - 2019) and WHW Akademija in Zagreb (2020). She further enriched her experience through an internship under the Fulbright program from 2020 to 2022. Currently based in the USA since 2021, Muromtseva shares her expertise as a faculty member at the School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University.

With a career spanning from 2015, Muromtseva has been actively showcasing her works. Her solo exhibitions have graced venues such as the XL Gallery at the Moscow Contemporary Art Center Vinzavod, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Her art has also been displayed internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, the Art Front Gallery in Tokyo, and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial.

Muromtseva's contributions to the art world have been recognized with accolades such as the Present Continuous program of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp and the Innovation Award in 2020. Her impact extends beyond the art sphere, earning her a place in the Forbes Russia "30 under 30" list in the same year.

Exploring diverse mediums like installation, video, and graphics, Muromtseva's work blurs the lines between documentary and imagination. She describes her artistic pursuit:

"Through my practice I am looking for the new forms of existence within the hierarchical social and cultural systems of society. I am interested in the narrative where scholarly and artistic imagination overlap. I imagine the possibility to renew historical narratives, to reconfigure methods of exhibition display, to share the means of production with other artists, the possibility of actual solidarity."

Solo Exhibitions

 * 2015 — On Its Place, R​odchenko Art School, Moscow, Russia
 * 2015 — On Its Place, I​nstitute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Science, Russia
 * 2017 — More Than Us,​ XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
 * 2018 — Quarter to Twelve, ​XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
 * 2018 — Dear Visitors, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
 * 2019 — Better in Chorus, P​eresvetov gallery, Moscow, Russia
 * 2019 — While you Were Sleeping I Planted a Tree, ​Garage Museum Studios, Russia
 * 2019 — A Tough Male Portrait, ​XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
 * 2019 — What Happens to Others, ​Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
 * 2020 — How to Become Invisible, ​GMK Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
 * 2020 — Quarter to Twelve, ​M HKA museum, Antwerp, Belgium
 * 2021 — Time Difference, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
 * 2022 — Breaking History, The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
 * 2022 — Women In Black against the War, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
 * 2022 — Breaking History, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 * 2023 — Women in Black Against the War, Pushkin House, London, UK
 * 2024 — Over The Slopes of Speech, Nika Project Space, Dubai, UAE

Group Exhibitions

 * 2014 — Reservation​, Artplay, Moscow, Russia
 * 2015 — Voices​, A3 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
 * 2016 — Different View​, Na Shabolovke Gallery, Moscow, Russia
 * 2016 — Radar 2.0,​ F/Stop Festival, Leipzig, Germany
 * 2017 — Guilty,​ MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
 * 2017 — 8 level,​ Vinzavod Contemporary Art Center
 * 2017 — Workshop’17​, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
 * 2017 — Cards​, Worker and Collective Farmer Museum and Exhibition Center, Moscow, Russia
 * 2017 — Les Rendez-Vous de Juillet​ Festival,​ France
 * 2017 — Artdocfest, M​oscow, Russia
 * 2017 — When No Names Were Given and No Days Were Counted, ​The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov, Moscow, Russia
 * 2017 — World Biennial Exhibition of Student Posters and Photography,​ Novi Sad, Serbia
 * 2018 — Family Archive, T​heatre am Steg, Baden, Austria
 * 2018 — Steirischerherbst Festival,​ Graz, Austria
 * 2019 — Bureau des Transmissions,​ Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
 * 2019 — The Heroes of Our Time, ​Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
 * 2019 — A Drill, W​inzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia
 * 2019 — Pro and Contra, ​Artplay, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
 * 2019 — Resistance, G​arage Museum Studios and Residency
 * 2019 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, ​Gostiny dvor, Moscow
 * 2020 — Viral Self-Portraits, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 * 2020 — WorkShop Online: With the Collection, M​ MSU, Rijeka, Croatia
 * 2020 — Drei Tage bis zum Ende der Kunst, ​Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
 * 2020 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, Installation of the Balcony Gallery, ​Moscow, Russia
 * 2020 — Innovation Art Prize, ​the exhibition of laureates, Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
 * 2021 — Museum of Self-isolation, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
 * 2021 — Contemporary. Beginning. Moscow Museum of Modern Art
 * 2021 — Things We Sense About Each Other, Badischher Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
 * 2021 — Diversity United, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
 * 2021 — Crevices in Myth, Pushkin House, London, UK
 * 2021 — Kandinsky Art Prize, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
 * 2021 — Northern Alps Festival, Omachi, Japan
 * 2021 — Diversity United, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
 * 2022 — Setouchi Triennale, Japan
 * 2022 — Ballots Not Bullets, White Box, New York City
 * 2022 — Room Full of Mirrors, Fragment Gallery, New York City
 * 2022 — Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria
 * 2023 — The Great Void, Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
 * 2023 — Dystopia: Transition From Memory, Art Front Gallery, Japan
 * 2023 — Rockella Residency, New York City, USA
 * 2023 — I Trust You, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
 * 2023 — 73-23, PAL Project Gallery, Paris, France

Awards

 * 2019 — Present Continuous, V-A-C Fund & Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (jury: Stefan Kalmár, Bart de Baere и Teresa Mavica)
 * 2020 — Innovation Award, New Generation Category (Better in Chorus, P​eresvetov gallery)
 * 2020 — Turbulence, Qatar Embassy in Moscow Award
 * 2020 — Forbes Russia: 30 under 30