Yulia Spiridonova (

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

: Юлия Дмитриевна Спиридонова; born 1986 in

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) is a Russian

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and

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ist. Calvert Journal included her in the list of ten rising stars at the Moscow Biennale for Young Art 2016.

Education

Yulia Spiridonova earned her humanities degree from

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

and attended the post-graduate program at the

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation’s oldest art schools, the only publicly funded independent art school ...

Art

Yulia Spiridonova has participated in a number of exhibitions in Russia, United States, Germany, and the Netherlands. In 2016 her project "Parallel News" was selected for the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. Her provocative imagery received a mixed critical response in Russia, where one of her artworks, which depicted a gay couple with physical disabilities having sex, was called by critics an 'autoerotic disorder'.

Career

Yulia Spiridonova works for

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in Moscow, Russia. As a contributing photographer she made a series of portraits of notable Russians, including the political artist

Petr Pavlensky Pyotr (or Petr) Andreyevich Pavlensky (russian: link=no, Пётр Андреевич Павленский; born 8 March 1984) is a Russian contemporary artist. He is known for his controversial political art performances, which he calls "events of ...

References

External links

Interview with Spiridonova for Das Kunstmagazin (in German), 2016Review of Spiridonova's art by DAZED Magazine, 2016
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