Fountain (From FloodZone series)

About Anastasia Samoylova

Anastasia Samoylova is a Russian-American artist who moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation. In 2020 she had her first solo museum exhibition of the ongoing project FloodZone at USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa. Since then her work has been presented at the Biennale for Contemporary Photography, in Germany and Kunsthaus Wien in Austria. In 2021 her work will be shown in solo exhibitions at The Chrysler Museum of Art, The Print Center Philadelphia, HistoryMiami Museum, and Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow. Samoylova was awarded a number of grants for FloodZone, including the South Arts Fellowship and Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography. Her work is in the collections at the Perez Art Museum Miami and Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, among others. With over 80 photographs, a book of the FloodZone project was published by Steidl in 2019. Samoylova is represented by Dot Fiftyone Gallery (Miami), Galerie Caroline O’Breen (Amsterdam), Sabrina Amrani Gallery (Madrid), and Galerie Peter Sillem (Frankfurt).