Masha
Ivanova

I am a multimedia artist. Now I live between the two countries, Russia and the United States. I grew up in the North of Russia, near the Ural mountains, among the snow-covered steppes and hills. The harsh climate of the North has shaped me as a person. I graduated from ICA, Moscow (INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART) in 2015 and in 2012 - Moscow State Academic Art Institute named V.Surikov, Proff. E. Maximovs class.
 I’m collaborating as an artist-consultant with film companies Smuggler (“Smile” music video Jay-Z, it work wins Grand Prix in Entertainment at Cannes Lions 2018) and HBO (“Black rest” episodic stream), Los Angeles, USA.
 Now I’m in residence Open Studios, WINZAVOD in Moscow, Russia.I’m a laureate of grants for the young artists of the Ministry of Culture Russian Federation in 2013 - 2015.My works was shown in Robert Miller Gallery, New York; OXO Tower, London; CICA, Museum of Contemporary Art Institute, Tsong, South Korea. I participated in IV BIENNIAL OF THE PRINTED GRAPHICS, Kazan, Russia and in Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennial, Shenzhen Art Museum, China.
 My works are in the collection of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan and in private collections in Russia, Colombia, Great Britain, USA and Israel.
In my artistic researches I am interested in the topic of cognitive distortion; search for a new sensation of time, as inconstant. In many of my projects I work with the archetypes of modernist visuality (grids, stones, blocks), interpreting them through the aesthetics of minimalism. Rethink invisible values as a sculpture and installation. For example, turning time into an object in my project STONES MEMORIES. The Same. Or rethink the urban environment surrounding me by finding analogies with antique images in the Hunter project.For me is important to be involved in feminist discourse.Several of my projects are devoted to the image of the female body. It is impersonal as part of the sculpture installation. These projects are based on the concept of the objectification of women, affecting the position of women in modern society.I work with the problem of the interaction of body and space in a modern media environment. In my artistic practices, the body always becomes more than a rhetorical figure. It concentrates accents that go beyond the fictitious representation of reality and the widespread image of the body as the carrier of basic formations (gender, sexual orientation, nationality).I work in different media from video art to installations, sculptures, painting.

Residence:
2018 - Open Studios VINZAVOD, Moscow, Russia
2012 - The residence of the Russian Union of Artists Vyshny Volochyok, Russia
2011 - Castello di Boca, Kotor, Montenegro
Solo exhibition:
2018 - Elementary event space, Maxim Boxer gallery, Moscow, Russia 2015 - Antinomy, gallery “Open club”, Moscow, Russia Selected exhibitions: 2018 - Monumental art of MMXVIII, Flacon art center, Moscow, Russia
2018 - EMINENT DOMAIN, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2018 - Swaddling, bandaging, wrapping in art, Mikhail Chemakin Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia 2018 - Objectified 2018, CICA, Museum of Contemporary Art Institute Tsong, South Korea
2017 - IV BIENNIAL OF THE PRINTED GRAPHICS, The State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia
2017 - Chrom-art, OXO Tower, London, UK
2017 - SESSION_1, Gallery of Contemporary Art Center Mars, Moscow, Russia
2017 - Modern Mosaics of Moscow, The State Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2017 - DOCA, THE DAYS OF CONTEMPORARY ART, IGUMO, Moscow, Russia
2016 – Exhibition How should look like a modern landscape?, gallery “WORDSHOP”, centre for con- temporary art WINZAVOD, Moscow, Russia
2016 - Art and Music festival FORMA, urban culture center Pravda, Moscow, Russia
2016 - Spectres, Barba gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015-2016 - Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennial Exhibition, Shenzhen Art
Museum, Shenzhen, China
2015 - The monumental graphics, Moscow Union of Monumental Artists, Moscow, Russia
2015 - Auction MOST, Krasnodar, Russia
2015 - The safeness, ICA, Moscow, Russia
2015 - Young artists section of monumental-decorative art, Moscow Union of Artists, Moscow Finance Academy of Law, Moscow, Russia
2014 - Exhibition Time Ahead in the Central House of the Artist, Moscow, Russia
2013 - Salon in the Central House of the Artist, Moscow, Russia
2012 - Heirs of the Great Masters, Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
2012 - Exhibition of Young Artists, Moscow Union of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2011 - International Salon Montenegro, Kotor, Montenegro