Galina Agafonova was born in 1988 in Kiev. She is Russian.
In 1991 she moved with her family to small Russian town Voskresensk (Moscow Region). Live and work in Moscow now.
In 2019 she have studing at Elena Sukhoveeva and Viktor Khmel New PhotoSchool.
In 2023 graduated The Rodchenko Art School (Yulia Vergazova's laboratory The latest contexts
and technological perspectives in contemporary art).

Personal exhibitions:
2023 LANDSCAPES (Gallery22, Voxels Metaverse)

Group exhibitions:
2024 Sience-art festival“Frequencies 5.0” project “Metal is the substance of stars” (Moscow, Russia)
2024 Exhibition of contemporary art "Border Environments" at the CTI "Fabrika" (Moscow, Russia)
2024 Exhibition "A Matter of Technology" gallery "Buksir" curator Daria Epin (Lipetsk, Russia)
2024 Festival of young contemporary art in Altai "Wild Tale" (Manzherok, Russia)
2024 Photo drying for exhibition of Alexander Rodchenko at the Zotov Center (Moscow, Russia)
2023 Karelian Biennale of Arts "Energy of Restraint" (Petrozavodsk, Russia)
2023 Krasnenkaya Biennale 2023 (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2023 Planet B (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2023 Total installation Anthropoland 2023 (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia)
2023 Festival of abstract art "Abstractly. FORMS" 2023 (Moscow, Russia)
2023 Festival of contemporary art ARTWEEK FairyTales II 2023 (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2023 Festival of contemporary art DOCA Days of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia)
2023 Festival of photobooks Jerdyola (Rostov-on-Don, Russia)
2023 Exhibition of abstract art Abstractly - think! (Moscow, Russia)
2022 Festival of Contemporary Photography Young Photographers of Russia 2022 (Kaluga, Russia)
2022 Exhibition of contemporary art [IN] Transition 2022 (Moscow, Russia)
2022 Festival of Contemporary Photography Rotterdamphoto 2022 (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2022 Festival of Contemporary Art ARTWEEK 2022 (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2022 Exhibition Eco Art Russia 2022 (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
2020 Exhibition of contemporary art Wells Art Contemporary 2020 (UK)
2020 Festival of Contemporary Photography Young Photographers of Russia 2020 (Kaluga, Russia).
2020 Exhibition Water 2020 in New York NYC4PA (USA)
2019 Contemporary art exhibition London Group Open 2019 (London, UK)

Art Fairs:
2024 Cosmoscow Art Fair x The Act (Moscow, Russia)
2024 Third Place Art Fair Summer Edition (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2024 Win-Win Spring market of contemporary art at Winzavod, AKI section (Moscow, Russia)
2024 Seedling Fair in Museum of Moscow (Moscow, Russia)

Awards:
2021 Special mention for Prix De La Photographie (Paris, France)
2020 Special mention for Prix De La Photographie (Paris, France)
2020 Laureate and scholarship holder of the competition Young Photographers of Russia (Russia)
2020 Winner of the Water 2020 competition in New York NYC4PA (USA)

Art residences:
2023 Residence for artists in Altai "Skaz" (Chemal, Russia)

Works are in private collections in London, Krakow, Prague, Moscow. Artist's book OASIS in the collections of the libraries the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA).

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