Bio
Born in 1980 in Moscow USSR, grew up in Northern Israel and currently live and work between Toronto and Montreal.
I work with photographs, projection, video and installation.
I'm interested in migration, tradition and ritual, comfort, acclimatization and survival, or stories and details from my childhood that shaped my views on important stuff like sex and death or any other transformative events.
*Photo by Helena Kvarnstrom
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Migrant Creatures, Les Territoires, Montreal
2008 Clara in the Pines, XBASE, Toronto
2007 Small Dark Back Streets, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
2006 Feral, The Arts Project, London, Ontario
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2010 Rogue Wave, Toronto Island (forthcoming)
2010 Cruel Therapies/ Traitements Cruels, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal (forthcoming)
2010 OVERNIGHT, Steelworkers Hall, Toronto (forthcoming)
2010 Mythologies, Format Festival, Adelaide, Australia
2010 Young Blood, Les Territoires, Montreal (co-curator)
2010 Pleasure Dome's New Toronto Works Show , Toronto (co-curator)
2009 SOLID GOLD, Mercer Union, Toronto
2009 GBA, Art Metropole, Toronto
2009 It Follows Me, Double Double Land, Toronto (catalogue)
2009 GHOST HOLE, The White House, Toronto
2009 Mom Jeans, Cinecycle, Toronto
2009 Artscape Gibraltar Point Anniversary Show, Toronto Island
2009 The Blind Leading The Blind, The White House, Toronto
2009 Whistling Past The Graveyard, Stepping On The Cracks, Pieria, Greece
2009 HeavyWater, Iris Fraser & Yuula Benivolski, White Owl Gallery, Toronto
2009 Talent Show, Good Blood Bad Blood, Toronto
2009 Nuit Blanche Devereaux, Toronto
2009 High Hopes, The White House, Toronto
2009 VENI VIDI O 4, Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art, Halifax
2009 Time Off, Art Mûr, Montreal (catalogue)
2008 Double Issue, Switch Contemporary, Toronto
2008 GBA, Art Metropole, Toronto
2008 Ground Frame Released, Switch Contemporary, Toronto
2008 Unsettled, B42 Gallery, Oakville
2008 Windows and Mirrors, Keep Six Contemporary, Toronto
2008 Strata, Espace Artefacto, Montreal (catalogue)
2007 Veni Vidi O, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto
2007 New Natural Wonder, St Thomas Church, Nuit Blanche, Toronto
2007 Film Fort, Art Gallery of Missisauga, Toronto
2007 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
2007 Projectionists Exposition, Adrift, Toronto (catalogue)
2006 Sensoria, OCAD Student Gallery, Toronto
2006 Look Inside, OCAD, Toronto
2006 F-Stop and Check It Out, Contact Festival, Xpace, Toronto
2006 Still Camera Video Festival #2, Gallery 1313, Toronto
2006 OCAD Grad Show, OCAD, Toronto
2006 Digital Sugar Cubed, EMMEDIA, Calgary
2005 GBA, Art Metropole, Toronto
2005 Still Camera Video Festival #1, Lucky Dragon, Toronto
2005 Observance, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
2005 Groin Magazine Exhibition, Adrift, Toronto
2004 The Build Up, The Let Down, Xpace, Toronto
Publications and Compilations
It Follows Me (exhibition catalogue) 2010
Time Off (exhibition catalogue) 2010
Cheek Magazine, Issue #13, 2009
Invisible City, Issue #2, 2009
Strata (exhibition catalogue) 2008
F-Stop Magazine Issue #32, December 2008
MONDO Magazine, August 2008
Projected Lights, (DVD compilation), May 2008
The Concordian, “Pumpkinseed Fish and Other Curiosities”, Sijia Chen, April 2008
MONDO Magazine, November 2007
Cozying Up With Experimental Film, Globe and Mail, “, Nadja Sayej, August 2007
F-Stop Magazine Issue #23, May 2007
Shameles Magazine, Spring Issue, 2007
The Canvas, March 2007
Projectionists Expo DVD Compilation, March 2007
Digital Sugar Cubed, EMMEDIA (DVD Compilation), October 2006
COMMONPEOPLE, April 2005
F-Stop Magazine Issue #10, February 2005
Projections
2007 Three Old Women:Gruesome Tales, projection performance collaboration, Adrift, Toronto
2006 Beauty Breeds Hard Hearts, live painting for projection performance, Xpace, Toronto
2005 Fantastic Voyage, Collaborative projection performance performed at Drake Hotel; Xpace, Toronto
Education
2002-2007 BFA, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto. A Thesis was completed in Photography.
2007-2010 MFA, Concordia University, Montreal. Supervisor: Genevieve Cadieux.
Related Experience
2010 Artist talk, class: Photo 210, Concordia University, Montreal
2010 Artist talk, class: Survival Tactics, Concordia University, Montreal
2009 Residency at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto Island
2009 Photographer, Memory Machine, Ontario College of Art & Design
2009 Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Studio Arts, Montréal, Canada
2009 Artist talk, class: Photo 210, Concordia University, Montreal
2008 Residency at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto Island
2008 Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Studio Arts, Montréal, Canada
2008 Artist talk, class: Photo 300, Concordia University, Montreal
2007 Artist talk, class: Off/Against the Wall, Concordia University, Montreal
2007 Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Studio Arts, Montréal, Canada
2007 Artist Talk, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto.
2007 A Nocturne for the Fireflies, Film by Victoria Cheong. Costume Design.
2007 Volunteer, Subtle Technologies Festival 2007: in situ art/body/medicine