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NIKITA SHOKHOV

www.nikitashokhov.art

United States

EDUCATION:

2020-2022 — Virginia Tech, STEM MFA in Creative Technologies, School of Visual Arts in College of Architecture, Arts, and Design

2018-2019 — California Institute of the Arts, MFA Program in Film and Video

2010-2013 — Rodchenko Art School Moscow, BFA in Photography and Multimedia

SCHOLARLY WORK:

2022 — Essay “ORIENTATION DEVICE: poiesis of documentary volumetric video for augmented reality; location-aware interactive mise-en-scène; applied queer phenomenology; the potential of procedural worldmaking in the future”, Master of Fine Arts thesis, Virginia Tech, USA

ART / SCIENCE CONFERENCES, PANELS, JURY:

2023 — speaker in “Speaking Volumes”, a symposium on volumetric images, OCAD University and Ontario Tech University, online, Canada

2022 — panelist in “Digital Nomadism and Virtual Production”, Cyber Attack: Digital Art and Activism, NORDWIND, online, Berlin, Germany

2022 — jury member for a digital art residency at Chimera Platform, London, UK

2022 — speaker in an educational program for XR creators, “Digital Autumn: Sensations,” at Less Media Group, online, Kazakhstan

2020 — game developer of XR experience “Sentiments” and participant in Snap Creative Challenge with Virginia Tech and Microsoft at ACM IMX, online, USA

AUGMENTED REALITY MOBILE APPS:

2023 — “Hip Hop Lit”, literature study AR experience, The Department of English, a collab with Dr. Tyechia Thompson, Virginia Tech, ipureland, USA

2022 — “Dragzina”, holographic drag performance, a collab with Masha Vorslav, ipureland, USA - Russia

2021 — “Pain”, volumetric music video, a collab with Yevtya, ipureland, USA - Russia

AWARDS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES:

2022 — DOK Leipzig, official selection, Germany

2022 — Virtual Reality Experience VRE, official selection, Italy

2022 — Athens Digital Arts Festival, FutuRetro, official selection, Greece

2022 — FIVARS Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, official selection, Canada

2020 — Cannes XR Development Showcase, finalist, France

2019 — Diversity Grant, CalArts, USA

2018 — Lilian Disney scholarship, CalArts, USA

2017 — Puffin Foundation grant, New York, USA

2017 — Indiana Humanities grant, USA

2016 — The Watermill Center International Summer Program, New York, USA

2014 — World Press Photo, Amsterdam

SOLO SHOWS / SCREENINGS / PUBLIC DIGITAL EXPERIENCES:

2022 — “Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend” VR installation, Osnova gallery, Loop Barcelona, Almanac Barcelona hotel, Spain

2022 — “From Carnival to Russian Drag” installation, Spring/Break Art Show, Los Angeles

2021 — "Last March" video installation, Cube.Moscow

2021 — "Last March", Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg

2020 — “Scan | Klaxon”, 11.12 Gallery, Moscow

2019 — “Klaxon” CalArts Bijou Fest, Los Angeles

2019 — “Ice”, Anhydrite Biennial of Media Arts, Barbarossahöhle, Thuringia, Germany

2017 — “The Last March”, collaboration with Naum Medovoy, Moscow Museum of Modern Art

2017 — “Ice” screening at Artdocfest film festival, Moscow

2015 — “Sacred Procession”, Baltic Biennial of Photography, Kaliningrad

2015 — “Children: personal space”, Gallery Peresvetov, Moscow

2014 — “Moscow Nightlife”, Moscow Biennial of Photography

2013 — “Black Sea Vacations”, Biennial Fashion and Style in Photography, Moscow

2012 — “Empty Hills. The Space of Joy”, Galerie Iragui, Moscow

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS/ BIENNALES / FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS / PUBLIC DIGITAL EXPERIENCES:

2022 — “Dragzina” official selection at DOK Leipzig film festival, Extended Reality: DOK Neuland. THX 4 Nothing, AR show at Museum of Fine Arts (MdbK) Leipzig, Germany

2022 — “Dragzina” official selection at VRE22 Virtual Reality Experience, AR show at MEET Digital Culture Center, Milano, Italy

2022 — “Dragzina” AR show, 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival, FutuRetro, Athens, Greece

2022 — “Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend” VR film, FIVARS Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, Toronto

2021 — “PAIN” AR experience, Biennale Art for the Future, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

2020 — BRIDGE TO METAVERSE by Snark.art

2020 — “Möbius Loop” by a-s-t-r-a gallery, Spring/Break Art Show, New York

2019 — “Darling Angel”, Redcat, Los Angeles

2019 — “The Last Dodo”, CalArts Digital Expo, Los Angeles

2018 — “Moscow - New York" screening, EEP Berlin

2018 — “SCAN”, 8th Tashkent International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Tashkent

2016 — “ICE”, FADA: House of Madness, Watermill Center, Water Mill, New York

2015 — “Sacred Procession”, The 5th Photoquai, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

2015 — “GAZ. Hope”, The 6th Moscow Biennial, Austrian Cultural Forum, Moscow

2015 — “Borderlands”, Gallery for Russian Arts and Design, London

2014 — “Twelve Reflective Photographers”, Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg

2014 — “Young”, GUP Gallery, Amsterdam

2011 — “Life in Motion”, International Center of Photography, New York

ART FAIRS / ART BOOK FAIRS:

2022 — Loop Barcelona

2020 — ENTER art fair, Copenhagen

2020 — CADAF Online

2019 — Printed Matter Art Fair Book, Los Angeles

2018 — I Never Read Art Book Fair, Basel

2018 — VOLUMES, independent book festival, Zurich

PUBLICATIONS:

Apollo (UK), ARTnews (USA), Art Observed (USA), The New York Times (USA), The Guardian (UK), Le Monde (France), TV Rain (Russia), L’Express (France), Courrier International (Italy), IL (Italy), Fluter (Germany), China Newsweek (China), L’Insense Photo (France), DUMMY (Germany), Calvert Journal (UK), YET magazine (Switzerland), Revista Colada (Argentina), Extra Extra (Netherlands), Reporters Without Borders (France).