Artist Biography

Katya Muromtseva is a visual artist with a background in philosophy and stage design, whose lyrical-conceptual work investigates personal and collective memory through imaginative forms of documentation. She has had solo exhibitions at the M HKA Museum, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, XL Gallery, Art Front Gallery, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial among others. She was a resident at WHW Academy in Zagreb and at Garage Studios & Art Residencies Moscow. She was a winner of the Present Continuous program of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (M HKA). She has received the “Innovation” contemporary art prize in 2020 and Fulbright fellowship in 2020-2022. She was listed in Forbes Russia “30 under 30” in 2020. Her exhibitions and individual works were covered by ArtForum, The Economist, The New York Times, The World, TokyoArtBeat among others. Currently she is teaching at VCU Arts School in the US.