BIOGRAPHY

Anya Zholud

Born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1981. 

Graduated from St. Petersburg Art College and the St. Petersburg State Academy of Applied Art and Design. 

2003 — based in Moscow, Russia.

2006 — the School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops.

2008 — the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Moscow.

2009 — Participated in the main project in the 53rd Venice Biennale.

2007, 2009 and 2012 — nominated for the All-Russia «Innovation» prize in the sphere of contemporary art. 

2008, 2013 and 2017 — nominated for the «Kandinsky Prize».

Art works are in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Private Contemporary Art Museum in Moscow, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Museum of Non-conformist Art (St. Petersburg), State Hermitage Museum, State Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery.

Died on June5, 2025in the Moscowregion, the village of Arinino.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025  "Inhale Exhale". Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

          "Paragraph". PA Gallery, Moscow

2024  "Universal Picture". PA Gallery, Moscow

2023  "Another Icon". PA Gallery, Moscow

2021  "Intimate Portrait / An Intimate Portrait". Sapar Contemporary Gallery, New York (USA)

          "Personal Space". PA Gallery, Moscow

2020  "The Art That Reality Is Made Of". PA Gallery, Moscow

          "Welding Frameworks". Shchusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow

2019  "Anti-Luster". 11.12 GALLERY, Moscow

2018  "Notebook. Part 2", Gallery 11;12, Vinzavod, Moscow

2017  "Notebook. Part 1", ART4.RU, Moscow 

2017  "Half the trouble, or Illusion of life", Museum of Contemporary Art, ART4.RU, Moscow

2016  "Private source". 11.12 Gallery, Moscow

          "Worse Than Nothing". Gridchinhall Art Center, Moscow Region

          "After the winter". A3 Gallery, Moscow

          "Anya Zholud from the private collections". State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

 

2014  "Separate line". XL Gallery, Moscow

          "Home Archaeology". Open Gallery, Moscow

          "Vintage". Expo-88 Gallery, Moscow

 

2013  "Exercises". XL Gallery, Moscow

 

2012  "I'll Give in Good Hands". Foundation for Visual Art Support «Era», Moscow

          The Last Exhibition. Gridchinhall Art Center, Moscow Region

 

2011  "Requisiten". Kunstraum B, Kiel, Germany

          "Spazio Personale". Galleria Nina Lumer, Milan, Italy

 

2010  "Exhibition Continues". Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

          "Hummer". Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg 

          "Room Plant. Full Version". Aidan Gallery, Moscow

 

2009  "Anya Zholud in the Russian Museum". State Russian Museum,
          St. Petersburg, Russia

          "Room Plant". Object in a district, St. Petersburg

          "Not the Same Artist". Art&Science Space, Moscow

    

2008  "People's Project". Luda Gallery, St. Petersburg

          "Iron Wedding". Aidan Gallery, Moscow

 

2007  "Museum of Me". ArtStrelka, Moscow, Russia

          "Things for Love". Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

 

2006  "Monument to Virginity". S.ART Gallery, Moscow

    

2005  "Creative Crisis". Culture Centre at 10 Pushkinskaya st., St. Petersburg

          "Inventory". Expo-88 Gallery, Moscow

          "Bitches and Women". Central House of Artist, Moscow

          "Crisis of Presence". A-3 Gallery, Moscow

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026  "Above the Avant-Garde". Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts

          "The Artist's Book. Tattooing the Void". Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

2025  "Materials of Creativity", "Constructive and Bright. Metal and Paint". Vykhino Gallery, Association "Exhibition Halls of Moscow"

          "The Arrangement of Pictures Depends on Taste. Contemporary Art from the Anton Kozlov Collection". Multimedia Art Museum

          "The Collection. A Point of View" — "In the Closet"

 

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