Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York, with a background in genetic bioengineering and philology, working with themes of queerness, human ecology, and body metamorphosis. In his video work, Fedotov-Fedorov employs a choreography based on the movements of insects, mollusks, and reptiles to blur the perceptible boundary between the Human and the Animal. Similarly, in his work with installation, sculpture, painting, and other media, Fedotov-Fedorov dismantles social constructs that obstruct self-identification outside the realm of normality.
EDUCATION 2014
1)ICA Moscow, Russia
2)Department of bioengineering and philology in the RUDN University, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
1) Museum of skins - Ncontemporary gallery, Milan, Italy
2023
1) Snake changing skin - Fragment Gallery, NYC, USA
2021
1)The Moth and the Bat Flying to the Light, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg,Russia
2019
1)Till Nature Us part, Galerie Charraudeau, Paris, France
2018
1)Justine Emard, Rites De Passage, Galerie Charraudeau, Paris, France
2)Collection of Pink Book No2,The State Biology Museum K.A. Timiryazev, Moscow, Russia
3)Preservation Instinct, Fragment Gallery, New York, USA
4)Poisons Museum, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017
1)Nonatu 34 space, Bern, Switzerland
2)Preservation Instinct, part of the 7th Moscow International Biennale, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016
1)Closed Systems or Nothing about Tardigrades,5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow,Russia
2)Collection of the Pink Book, Museum ART4, Moscow, Russia
2015
1)Umbracle the City of Arts and Sciences by S. Calatrava Metamorphosis,Spain, Valencia
2)Homo Sapiens Lonely – Homo Sapiens Solitarius, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2014
1)Social Experiment, Gallery WEART, Moscow, Russia
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2023
Skowhegan school of art - Maine, USA
2022
ISCP New - York, USA
2021
Arts Exchange Programme Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland
ɬɾąŋʂɠɛŋıƈ ɧƙı — Transgenic space, supported by HIAP, Helsinki, Finland
2020
Pro Helvetia grant, Geneva, Switzerland
The State Innovation Award in Contemporary Art 2020, winner in the New Generation category, Russia
2019
Nominee by Clémentine Deliss for The Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, Porto, Portugal
Cité internationale des arts (Paris, France)
2018
Special Prize of the State Innovation Award in Contemporary Art 2018 in the New Generation category, Moscow, Russia
Residency at the Van Eyck Academy and Vroman Fellowship, Maastricht,Netherlands Residency at the Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
Residency at AFEW International, Culture Initiative fund, Amsterdam,Netherlands
2017
Residency residency.ch, Bern, Switzerland Residency Centre D’ArteLa Rectoria, Barcelona, Spain
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
MMOMA - Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Credit Suisse Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum ART4, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Moon is Just the Sun at Night- Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, USA
Overload- New Uncanny Gallery, New York, USA
IRL Gallery, New York, USA
Open Storage - Anna Nova Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2023
Beyond the clouds - Villa Altieri - Rome, Italy
BEHIND ABSTRACT FORMS - Fragment gallery, NYC,USA
2022
In the Field of the Other, Fragment Gallery, New York, USA
X-Nowness, Basel Art Center, Basel, Switzerland
2021
Vera Karaoke, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, Finland
Angels of the Wonderful World of Dissocia, Charraudeau gallery, Paris,France
Slowly Arriving, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
New Elements, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Winter House, Vera Wessels, Zurich, Switzerland
APPETIZERS, Group Exhibition at Schloss Leuk, Leuk Switzerland
10,000 Years Oslo Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland
Museum of Artificial History, The Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia
2020
I Guess I Die Another Day, CCCCCOMA, Berlin, Germany
2019
Master Tools is Curated by Riksa Afiaty, Jan van Eyck academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
Immortality, 4th Ural Industrial Biennale, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Constructed Situations, Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice, Italy
Bio Technology, Vienna Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Éloge de la Curiosité, Galerie Henri Chartier, Lyon. France
2018
Cybernetic Forest — BioLAB, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2017
Workshops`17.Sacred Geography to Non-Place,Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Hurrah! Sculpture! Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia
2016
Starting Point, part of the 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, FABRIKA, Moscow, Russia
The City in Personal Time, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia New Malachite Box, Ural branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Non-official Language Only, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
Reflect, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
View, Аnna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2015
Science Art Week, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Military Museum, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Holiday, The Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Art Logistics, Gallery Change, Kazan, Russia
Development of Freedom, CSI Factory, Moscow, Russia
2014
Research Institute, Solyanka Visual & Performing Arts Center, Moscow
Russia Media Poetry, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
The New Wave, Gallery MSK Eastside Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Fake, Gallery Random, Moscow, Russia