Artur Samofalov was born in the city of Sumy in 1987. In 2006, after graduating from the Sumy Higher College of Culture, he entered the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Department of Graphic Arts). Throughout his studies, Artur preferred watercolors.
Between 2014 and 2017, he studied for a master’s degree in Graphic Design and New Media at the Institute of Arts at the University of Opole (Poland).
From 2021 to 2022, he studied at the Free Workshops on the course «Contemporary Art» at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
At the moment, Artur Samofalov continues to work both in watercolor technique and with new media, primarily with video installation and video art.
The artist is interested in the theme of the nature of human perception and the practice of self-identification. Artur’s projects focus on the aspects of the contradictory perception of reality, the complexity of its articulation and interpretation.
He lives and works in Moscow and Sevastopol.
Exhibitions
2024 COSMOSCOW International Art Fair, M2 Gallery, Moscow
2024 «The Fluidity of Solids», M2 Gallery. Moscow
2024 «Reflaction», Vysota Gallery. Moscow
2024 «I see with my eyes closed» Gallery
2023 «Named by Vasari. Mannerism» Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod
2023 «God, give me a sign.» Gallery Set Projects (Shaltai Editions), Moscow
2023 Personal project «Inhabited Ruins» Gallery Triumph, Moscow
2022 «The Workshop. 20’22. Future is now» Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2022 «Process C-41» Nazavod Gallery, Moscow
2021 Art Residence by UPPA Winery. Sevastopol
2020 International Spring Watercolor Festival. Tirana, Albania
2019 Armenia Art Fair. Yerevan, Armenia
2018 IWS Albania 3rd International Watercolor Biennale. Tirana, Albania
2018 Live Performers Meeting, Rome, Italy.
2017 Video art fest EX-14 Gallery, Dresden, Germany
2016 Personal project WEWNĘTRZNE ZEWNĘTRZNE, A4 Gallery, Opole, Poland
2016 RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition, London, UK 2015 First floor, Opole, Poland
2015 Festival «Źródła» video art «Entire», Poland
2015 Land art symposium Mogritsa, Sumy
2012 Cloud Gallery, Chester, UK 2012 Resort romance, Museum of Modern Art, Kiev, Ukraine
