Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov currently lives and works in New York.

 

EDUCATION

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Genetics faculty, Moscow, Russia

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Philological faculty, Moscow, Russia

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, The School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 Second Skin, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

2024 Museum of Skins, NContemporary, Milan, Italy 

2023 Snake changing skin, Fragment Gallery, New York, USA

2021 The Moth and the Bat Flying to the Light, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

2019 Till nature us part, Galerie Charraudeau, Paris, France

2019 Site-specific installation, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2018 Justine Emard / Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov. Rites De Passage, Galerie Charraudeau, Paris, France

2018 Collection of pink book №2, The State Biology Museum named after K.A. Timiryazev, Moscow, Russia

2018 Reagenz, Dreiviertel, Bern, Switzerland

2018 Preservation Instinct, Vacation Gallery, New York, USA

2018 Museum of Poisons, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

2017 Nonatu, 3\4 space, Bern, Switzerland

2017 Preservation Instinct, The Parallel Program of the 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2016 Closed Systems or Nothing to do with Tardigrades, The Parallel Program of the 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, 11.12 Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2016 Collection of the Pink Book, Museum ART4, Moscow, Russia

2015 Umbracle the City of Arts and Sciences by Santiago Calatrava – Metamorphosis, Valencia, Spain

2015 Homo Sapiens Lonely – Homo Sapiens Solitarius, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia

2014 Social Experiment, Gallery WEART, Moscow, Russia

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 The Format Has Changed, Tsech, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2025 Trauma and Reborn, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

2025 Outside My Insides and Inside My Outsides, Kunstraum, New York, USA

2025 The Unruly Dance of Form, Fragment Gallery, New York, USA

2025 Seeing What isn't There, All Street Gallery, New York, USA

2025 Unsettled, Ncontemporary, Milan, Italy

2024 Не торопясь, М2 GALLERY, Moscow, Russia

2024 COMFORT ZONES, The New Uncanny Gallery, New York, USA

2024 The Moon is Just the Sun at Night, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, USA

2024 OVERLOAD, The New Uncanny Gallery, New York, USA

2024 Between the skin – blue, red and transparent, IRL Gallery, New York, USA

2024 Open Storage, Anna Nova Gallery, Anna Nova Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia   

2023 Behind abstract forms, Fragment Gallery, New York, USA

2022 In the Field of the Other, Fragment Gallery, New York, USA

2022 X-Nowness, Basel Art Center, Basel, Switzerland

2021 Vera Karaoke, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, Finland

2021 Angels of The Wonderful World of Dissocia, Charraudeau gallery, Paris, France

2021 Transgenic space, supported by HIAP, Helsinki, Finland

2021 Slowly Arriving at Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland

2021 New Elements, the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2021 Winter House, Vera Wessels, Zurich, Switzerland

2021 APPETIZERS , Group Exhibition at Schloss Leuk, Leuk Switzerland

2021 Museum of Artificial History, The Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia)]

2021 10,000 Years Oslo Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland

2021 It Will Work if You Close Your Eyes, Museum ART4, Moscow, Russia

2020 I guess I die another day, Curational Collective Connecting Concepts of Communication and Art, Berlin, Germany

2019 Composed situations, Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice, Italy

2019 Master Tools, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherland

2019 Eloge de la curiosité, Galerie Henri Chartier, Lyon, France

2018 Cybernetic forest, BioLAB, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2018 Consequence, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2018 Exhibition of the nominees for The State Prize in Contemporary Art «Innovation», Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia

2018 Modeling the space, Berthold Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia

2017 A posteriori, Ural Vision Gallery. The Parallel Program of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2017 Workshops`17. Over There, Where No One Dreams: from Sacred Geography to Non-Place, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia

2017 ...Hurrah! Sculpture!, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia

2016 The City in Personal Time, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2016 New Malachite Box, Ural branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2016 Non-Ocial Language Only, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia

2016 Heritage. Nature, Gallery Victoria, Samara, Russia

2016 Reflect, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia

2016 View, Anna Nova Gallery and Veranda, St. Petersburg, Russia

2015 Science.Art Week, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia

2015 Military Museum, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia

2015 Holiday, The Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

2015 Art Logistics, Gallery Change, Kazan, Russia

2015 Development of Freedom, CSI Factory, Moscow, Russia

2015 Workshop 2015, Sub Observationem, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia

2015 Do Better, Gallery A3, Moscow, Russia

2014 Research Institute, Gallery on Solyanka, Moscow, Russia

2014 Media Poetry, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia

2014 The New Wave, Gallery MSK Eastside Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2014 Fake, Gallery Random, Moscow, Russia

2014 Fake, Gallery A3, Moscow, Russia

2013 Entre, Gallery Open Stage, Moscow, Russia

 

BIENNALES 

2019 Parallel Program of the 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2019 Main Project of the 5th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2019 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia

2017 Main Project of the 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2016 Point of Reference, Parallel Program of the 5th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, “Fabrika” Center for Creative Industries, Moscow, Russia

2014 Boundaries of Action, 4th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art. Special Project, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

2014 Disjointed Messages, Photo Biennale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

 

ART FAIRS

2025 Cosmoscow, Moscow, Russia

2025 Miart, Milan, Italy

2024 |catalog|, Moscow, Russia

2022 Christmas Art Bazar, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2020 Cosmoscow, Moscow, Russia

2019 DA!MOSCOW Art Fair, Moscow, Russia 

 

HONOURS AND AWARDS

2019 Nominee for The Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, nominated by curator Clementine Deliss, Porto, Portugal

2018 Special Prize at the Russian contemporary art award “Innovation—2018” in the “New Generation” category for the project “Instinct of Preservation,” Russia

 

RESIDENCIES

2023 Skowhegan school of art, Maine, USA

2022 ISCP, New York, USA

2021 Arts Exchange Programme Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland

2021 HIAP, Helsinki, Finland

2020 Residency Pro Helvetia, Geneve, Switzerland

2018 Residency at the Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium

2018 Residency at AFEW International, Culture Initiative fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2018 Residency at the Van Eyck Academy and Vroman Fellowship, Maastricht, Netherlands

2017 Residency Residency.ch, Bern, Switzerland

2017 Residency Centre D'Art La Rectoria, Barcelona, Spain