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Masha Sha Category: Selected Artist D.O.B. 05/08/1982 Country: Russia Residence: USA Media: Drawings Price range: £ 500 - £ 5,000
AWARDS: 2014 STRABAG Artaward International, Award of recognition, Vienna, AT 2006 New Generation, Young Artists Nomination, Innovation, Russian State Competition of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU
Born in Chukotka, Russia, in 1982. Graduate of Pro Arte Institute and University of Art and Culture in St.Petersburg, RU, (2005), MFA, SUNY at Buffalo University (2010), The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, Rochester, NY (2011). Masha works in the mediums of drawing and video. In 2005 she received the New Generation (Innovation Award, Moscow, RU) and in 2014 she was the recipient of the International Award of recognition STRABAG (Vienna, Austria). Masha’s works are spontaneous and expressive, reflecting a number of interests including linguistic slippage, mapping chaos and chance. She is interested in human nature, specifically in notions of desire, suffering, authority, power, displacement and longing for the undefined. Masha lives and works in Boulder, CO, USA. COLLECTIONS: The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, RU STRABAG Art Collection, Vienna, AT Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, RU MAIN PUBLICATIONS: 2015 Works from STRABAG COLLECTION, Ritter 2014 Catalog: Another Capital, Moscow Museum, Moscow, RU 2014 Catalog: Actual Drawing, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, RU 2009 Catalog: Doors Open Day: a mansion- a gymnasium- a clinic-a museum, Russian Art, 1989-2009, from the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art 2009 Catalog: Ultra – New Materiality Project, Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow, RU FAIRS: 2016 2011
One¦2015 Drawing¦210cm x 210cm
Governor’s Island Art Fair, Governors Island, NYC, NY Art Verona Art Fir Exhibition, Verona, IT
BIENNIALS: 2012 Apocalypse and Renaissance, project within the framework of First Kiev Biennale, Chocolate House, Kiev, UA 2009 Ultra-New Materiality, Special Project of 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, Moscow, RU
LATEST SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2017 Texts For Nothing, Naropa University, Boulder, CO 2015 Approaching the Monster, Name Gallery, St. Petersburg, RU 2014 Unrest, Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna, AT 2014 Masha Sha- Oeuvres vidéo, Galerie Short Cuts, Namur, BE 2007 My mother, Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow, RU
LATEST GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2016 Corpus. Anatomical Theatre, Museum of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Saint-Petersburg, RU 2016 Unframed, Red Line, Denver, CO, USA 2016 My own self. Self-Portrait in the Russian Museum, The State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, RU 2015 Strich und Faden, Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna, AT 2014 Another Capital, Moscow Museum, Moscow, RU 2014 Actual Drawing, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, RU 2014 Exhibition of prize winning works, STRABAG Artaward International, STRABAG Kunstforum, Vienna, AT 2008 The Great Repression, White Box Gallery, New York, USA 2007 Russian performance at Elverket, The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, SE 2007 Adventures of the Black Square, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, RU