Researcher, artist and photographer.
Born in Ivdel, Sverdlovsk region in 1977, she lives and works in the suburbs of Yekaterinburg. In 2013-2014 she was trained at PhotoDepartment. She studied with Gert Jochems, Thomas Kellner, Guillaume Guerin. The author's works took part in exhibitions in Russia, Europe, Asia and America.
The main theme of the research is evolution. Evolution of matter, biological objects, natural laws, social phenomena in time. Works with the medium of photography, video and sound, experimenting with different techniques such as monocle photography, photogram printing, light collage, digital applique. Often works in the sci-fi and mockumentary genre. Explores the interdisciplinary relationship between photography and science.
Brief excerpt from the artist statement
I stick to a new paradigm of relations between human and nature, where human is not superior to the surrounding world. Where a living creature possesses the ability to think. And for me, it is very important to find a way to transform people’s attitude to Another Form of Consciousness and possible means of communication.
Personal exhibitions
2020 Yekaterinburg, Yeltsin center Art gallery, as a curator and author of a collective exhibition
2017 Pervouralsk, Innovative Cultural center
2013 Ekaterinburg, Gallery of Modern Art
Group exhibitions
2024 Moscow, Solyanka Gallery, Ground Zine Fest
2024 Voronezh, festival of author's photo books and zines “Razvorot”
2024 St. Petersburg, Nizina Fest, zine “Freedom intertwining”
2024 Stavropol, Rostov-on-Don, photo book festival “Zherdyola”, zine “Freedom intertwining”
2024 Moscow, DOCA-2024 festival of contemporary art, project The Backbone
2024 Yekaterinburg, UNDARK fest light art festival, light installation "Freedom intertwining"
2022 St. Petersburg, OtcherSides Festival, organized by ITMO University, Total Text Installation
2022 Moscow, State Darwin Museum, Moscow, "Paradoxes of Evolution", The Linear Model of Time
2022 Pervouralsk, Innovative Cultural Center, Came Frome The Sea project
2022 Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg History Museum, Gardens And The City
2022 London, MonoVisions Photography, Black & White series of the year 2022 Award
2022 USA, ContemporaryArtGalleryOnline, "All women artists" exhibition”
2020 Russia, Yekaterinburg, Yeltsin center Art gallery, science art project “Came from the sea”
2020 China, Yunnan Provincial Museum, exhibition “Me and My Family”
2017 France, Paris, Russiantearoom gallery and curating agency, "SOUS TENSION"
2016 China, 16th International Art Exhibition, “A little genius”
2014 China, Yixian, «The 9th International Festival of Photography"
2014 Russia, Norilsk, "Young Photography in Norilsk"
2014 Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus, We-ll-timed
2014 Russia, St.Petersburg, FotoDepartament, We-ll-timed
2014 Netherlands, Amsterdam, photo festival “OpenBorder”
2013 Russia, Krasnoyarsk, Festival of screen and Media arts, «Between the air and a painting»
2013 Russia. Pervouralsk, HNC, “Between us”
2013 China, Pingyao International Photography Festival
2013 Russia, Ekaterinburg, Metenkov House Museum of Photography, 'New Wave'
2013 Russia, Ekaterinburg, UralNCCA, Yekaterinburg
2012 Russia, St.Petersburg, FotoDepartament 2012/2 “Young photography”
2012 Romania, FotoExpo
Participation in fairs and auctions
2025 Ekaterinburg, fair Atrium in Yeltsin Centre
2024 Tyumen, fair Art-choice in Kontora parahodstva
2024 Tyumen, auction of gallery Zoloto + Boloto
2024 Moscow, Win-Win Fair at Vinzavod
Collective action
2024 Salekhard, Yamalskaya Gallery, series of works The Phenomenon of Provinciality
2023 Moscow, Activated Viewing Lab
2023 Arkhangelsk, Parnik Gallery, the «Vegetables» exhibition
2023 Kaliningrad, pro3a dbro3a project «Collective Brezhnev»
2023 Vorkuta, exhibition Addressees, copies of photograms from the Came from the sea project
2023 Collective(ism) art group, Chislennik 2023
2022 Moscow, Glubina Gallery, «The Structure of Interference Association», «Dance 2H2O»
2022 Russia, Moscow, Art Skvazhina group, exhibition «One Here... No Other...»
Awards, Honorable mantion, Short list
2013 China, Gold Medal Award in China 15th International Art Exhibition
2016 Netherlands, Dostoevsky Photography`s list
2016 USA, IPA, International Photo Awards, Family of man, Family portrait, Honorable mention
2017 France, Les Boutographies 2017, short list
2017 USA, choice the gallery Bokeh Bokeh, San Francisco
2018 United Kingdom, International Photography Grant nominee
2019 Russia, Moscow International Foto Awards, category Science 'Came from the sea', Honorable mention
2022 UK, MonoVisions Photography, Black & White series of the year 2022 Award, honorable mention
2025 UK, Photo|Frome Photobook, Photobook Finalist
Participation in residences
2021 Art-residence "Shishim Hill", Yekaterinburg
The author's works are represented in galleries
Nisha Gallery in the Yeltsin Centre, Yekaterinburg
The author's works are held
in the public collections of the Metenkov House-Museum in Yekaterinburg, in the Russian House in Ankara, in collection of Andrei Kozitsin, Anton Bakov, Ilya Shipilovskikh, Darya Kosina, Svetlana Usoltseva.
The photobook 'Look wider' is in the following collections: Association Valentin Haüy, Paris, France; Sverdlovsk Regional Scientific Library named by G. Belinsky, Yekaterinburg; Russian Center for Science and Culture in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Gdansk, Helsinki, Vienna; Russian Art and Culture Assosiation, Antalya, Turkey, Libraries for the blind in the Baltic States and in more than fifty cities in Russia.
Zin's “Freedom Intertwining” is in the collection: in the library of the Garage Museum, in the Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, of the library of the festival “Zherdyola”, Rostov-on-Don, in the Gogol Library, in BC Sovremennik, on the mobile shelf of the Nizina Festival, St. Petersburg; in the Norilsk City Library.
Additional Information
Participated in photography conferences (organized by FotoDepartment)
She was a jury member in local photo contests, organizer of the Metenkov House-Museum, the Center of Photography March.
She was curated a poetry party at the Glubina Gallery
Conducted an event in the format of “one conversation” on the exhibition of Vladimir Kupriyanov in the Art Gallery of the Yeltsin Center on the theme "Where does time end? The Physics of Time in Kupriyanov's Photographs"