Landscape Sublime

Anastasia Samoylova (b.1984, Moscow, Russia) is a Russian-American artist who moves between observational photography, studio practice, and installation. Her work explores notions of environmentalism, consumerism, and the picturesque. She received an MA in Environmental Design from Russian State University for the Humanities and an MFA from Bradley University. In 2022 solo exhibitions include: Eastman Museum, Chrysler Museum of Art, and HistoryMiami Museum. In 2020-2021 Samoylova presented solo exhibitions at the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow; Orlando Museum of Art; and Contemporary Museum of Art, Tampa; recent group exhibitions include: America in Crisis at the Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2022; After Us: The Flood at the Kunst Haus Wien, 2021. In 2020 her work was included in the Biennale for Contemporary Photography at the Kunsthalle Mannheim and Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Germany. In 2022 Samoylova was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. In 2021 she was the recipient of the inaugural KBr Photo Award from the Fundación MAPFRE, Spain. Published monographs include Floridas (Steidl, 2022) and FloodZone (Steidl, 2019). Her works are in the collections of the Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, and Vontobel Art Collection