Toma Gerzha (b. 2003) grew up in Moscow, Kolchugino, Lukhovitsy, and still speaks Russian language. Her family moved to the Netherlands in 2009.
She has successfully completed her photography studies at the Dutch Academy for Visual Creation in 2019. Gerzha first gained public notice with her solo-exhibition “Nameless people, nameless country” (2022), at C-LAB Art Gallery in Amsterdam. The show included a series of photographs of teenagers in the post-Soviet space taken a few months before the war in Ukraine. The exhibition was included in the Amsterdam Art Guide at iamsterdam.com.
In October 2022, photobook Art Monday (ISBN: 978-87-972183-1-0) was released with Toma Gerzha as co-author. The book was published by the Danish publisher Monday Studio.
Representation
Monday Studio, Copenhagen
Pakje Kunst, Leiden
Works in collection of Cultural Association MoCA, University of the Arts London, Saint Petersburg State University (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
Grants & awards
2023
Finalist, CitiesToBe Photo Award
Winner, Rotterdam Photo Festival: Best Exhibition Award
Finalist, TPF: Social Documentary Photography Awards (Series)
Winner, TPF: Social Documentary Photography Awards (Single Image)
Partial Tuition Merit Scholarship, Chico Review
Winner, Arte Laguna Special Prize’17
Finalist, Arte Laguna Prize’17
2022
Honorable mention, Charta Award
Residencies
2023: Farm Cultural Park, Favara (Italy)
2023 - 2024: Treehouse, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Lectures & workshops
2023
Artist Talk about ‘ctrl + r’ project for Rotterdam Photo Festival, Netherlands
Exhibitions, festivals & fairs (selected)
2023
ART EXPLOSION, Assen, Netherlands
TPF: SOCIAL DOC. PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, Photobook Café, London, UK
ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE’17, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy
LIEBEN BELEBT, Smol Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
FORMAT23: THE PERFORMING PHOTOBOOK, Derby Museum on The Wardwick, Derby, UK
EXPOSITION DE NOËL, Hilton Hotel, Paris, France
ROTTERDAM PHOTO, Rotterdam, Netherlands
АДРЕСА(Н)ТЫ, Pentagon, Vorkuta, Russia
2022
SPIEL ALLEIN, Gallery 46, London, UK
8x12, FLOOR_, Seoul, South Korea
ART MONDAY, Monday Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark
XSAMEN, Loods 6, Amsterdam, Netherlands
NAMELESS PEOPLE, NAMELESS COUNTRY, C-LAB, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Screenings
2023
REVELA’T: PATHS, Vilassar de Dalt, Spain
BECOMING MONUMENTAL, Autograph’s Gallery, London, UK
Education
Fotografika Academy – Saint Petersburg, Russia
· Photojournalism, 2024
University of Arts London
· BA (Hons) Photography, 2023
Dutch Academy for Visual Creation – Amsterdam, Netherlands
· Photography Studies, 2019
