Misha Maslennikov

        Misha Maslennikov was born in 1964 in the Dobroe settlement close to Moscow. Since 2013 constantly lives in the Odessa city, Ukraine.

        1981-83 – Misha studied at Art School #75, got the qualification of architectural designer-constructor.
        2002-05 – he studied at theological department of Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University.
        1985-92 – he worked in reproduction centre of the State Publishing House the Press (previous name Pravda) as a retoucher and an operator of electronic color splitting and color correcting machine. At the same time Misha Maslennikov got experienced in the following fields: photo reproduction, contacts, photomontage, he was busy in graphic, fonts and painting in art studious of Moscow painters Dmitry and Andrey Bisty, Vladimir Brainin.
        1993-98 – he worked as an assistant of head of printing department at the design agency of the company Videoservice, became professional in control of printing process, graphic design, pre-printing photo preparation.
        2001-02 – he was engaged as an art-director in the project Byzantium.ru of charity organization – The Centre of Help to Development of Orthodox art Byzantine.
        2008 – he triggered the arrangement of photoclub under Feofaniya Gallery.
        Since 2006 – member of the Noga Creative Union.
        Since 2010 – member of the Russian Photounion.
        Since 2010 – member of the Russian Geography Society.


        Awards & Honors:

        2022 — 3rd Prize of the BarTur Photo Award 2022, Faces of Humanity (Series) theme.
        2022 — Finalist of the World.Report Award | Documenting Humanity 2022, Master Award category.
        2021 — Honourable Mention of the 2021 ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography, Social Documentary Network/SDN.
        2021 — Finalist of the LensCulture Art Photography Awards 2021.
        2018 — Grand Prix of the XXIV International Photo Festival Narva Autumn 2018.
        2012 — Grand Prix of the All-Russian photo contest “Living Ocean and Coastal Zone” of the Press Center of the Russian exposition at the World EXPO-2012 and Science and Life magazine.


        Solo exhibitions:

        2022 — The Don Steppe, The XIII edition of The Festival of Ethical Photography, Palazzo Modignani, Lodi, Italia.
        2021 — The Don Steppe, 9. Foto Art Festival named after Andrzej Baturo, Gallery of Photography B& B, Bielsko-Biała, Poland.
        2018 — Chukotka is a land of loneliness, XXIV International Photo Festival Narva Autumn 2018, House of Culture Rugodiv, Narva, Estonia;
        — “Ruunipizza”, Tartu, Estonia.
        2013, 2018 — Ordinary Photos, Odessa Museum Western & Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine;
        — Art Space, Vitebsk Center of the Modern Art, Vitebsk, Belarus.
        2012-13 — 3 Outskirts: Karelia, Altai, Chukotka, GM Photo Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia;
        — Russian Museum of Photography, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;
        — The First Sevastopol International Photo Festival, Sevastopol, Ukraine.
        2008 — WE, Feofaniya Gallery, Moscow, Russia.


        Group exhibitions:

        2022 — PhotoTOP. Still Life 2022, Gallery of Classical Photography, Moscow, Russia.
        2022 — World View: ZEKE Award Winners 2021, Bridge Gallery, Cambrige, USA.
        2021 — ZEKE Award Winners 2021, Photoville anniversary festival, Brooklyn Bridge Park — Pier 3, NY, USA.  
        2021 — Noga 15 years old, VI International festival of photography “Fotokrok” named Sigismund Yurkovsky, Vitebsk Center of the Modern Art, Vitebsk, Belarus.  
        2021 — FotoTOP 2021, Gallery of Classical Photography, Moscow, Russia.
        2020 — Noga Creative Union, Thin Line Photo Festival, Odessa Museum Western & Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine.
        2016 — Life without pomp and parade, Central library M.Y. Lermontov, St. Petersburg, Russia.
        2012 — Urban Environment, International Photofestival “Photo Days Ogre 2012”, Ogre Cultural Center, Museum of History and Art, Ogre, Latvia.
        2012-19 — Our Stories, Series “We’ll manage anything!”, Project of the Mobile Photo Exhibition The Photographic Angle, London — Bristol — Swindon — Birmingham — Crowley — Slough — Bracknell — Chester — Leeds — Newcastle — Stockport — Croydon — Uxbridge — Milton Keynes — Peterborough — Fareham — Maidenhead — Solihull — Exeter — Manchester — Weybridge — Southend-on-Sea — Reading — Coventry — Camberley — Bracknell — Grays — Cardiff, United Kingdom.
        2012-21 — 200 Faces, Project of the Mobile Photo Exhibition The Photographic Angle, London — Bristol — Swindon — Birmingham — Durham — Farnborough — Camberley — Crowley — Greenford — Uxbridge —Chester — Leeds — Manchester — Maidenhead — Southend-on-Sea — Weybridge — Peterborough — Coventry — Bracknell — Reading — Chelmsford — Maidenhead — Ascot — Feltham — Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.
        2012-13 — Birthmarks on the map, Australian Photofestival Head On, gallery The Muse at the Institute of Photography TAFE NSW, Sydney, Australia;
        — The Photo Industry Fair PMA, Melbourne Exhibition Center, Melbourne, Australia.
        2011-14 — Invisible Country, Project Liberty.SU, White Cube Gallery, Omsk, Russia;
        — Tomsk Regional Museum of Local History, Tomsk, Russia;
        — Municipal Art Gallery, Kostroma, Russia;
        — Polar Photo Fest, Norilsk Art Gallery, Norilsk, Russia.  
        2011 — We live in Russia, CDC of the South-Western Administrative District, Moscow, Russia.
        2010 — No distinction, MArchI, Moscow, Russia.
        2008-09 — Territory of Joy, Rumyantsev Mansion (branch of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg), St. Petersburg, Russia;
        — Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, Pskov, Russia;
        — Center for Orthodox Culture, Bialystok, Poland;
        — Russian House of Science and Culture, Berlin, Germany;
        — Voronezh Regional Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoy, Voronezh, Russia;
        — The scientific and cultural center of the museum-reserve Mikhailovskoye, Pskov region, Russia;
        — The Nevskaya Curtain of the Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg, Russia.
        2009 — My Favorite Province, Center for Culture and Art “Meridian”, Moscow, Russia;
        — Russian Center for Science and Culture, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
        2007 — Imagine Russia, Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.