Masha Sha
Interpretation
Masha Sha
Date of birth: 05 08 1982 mashashaspb@yandex.ru
Education:
2010 – 2011 Selznick School of Film Preservation, Eastman House, Rochester, NY
2007 – 2010 MFA, SUNY Buffalo University, Media Study, Fulbright Fellowship
2003 – 2005 Pro Arte Institute, Foundation for Art and Culture, St.-Petersburg, RU
New Media Art Studies Program
2000 – 2005 BFA, St.-Petersburg State University of Art and Culture
Social and Cultural Technologies
2000 – 2001 St.-Petersburg College of Optics and Mechanics.
Photography
Prizes:
First Prize “New Generation” young artist, Russian state competition of contemporary art, March 2006
Nomination “Best Visual Art” Kyreokhin Prize 2010
Solo Exhibitions:
Video exhibition “I am looking at you”, Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Center, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 8 – 22 April, 2009
Video installation “My mother”, Gallery of the Found Modern City, Moscow, Russia 21 May- 21 June 2007
Video screening, Espace Croise center of Contemporary Art, Roubaix, France, 15 May -2 June 2007
Video show, The Russki Album Foundation, «KvadraT» Gallery, St.-Petersburg, Russia, 16 December 2005
Exhibitions and festivals:
Apocalypse and Renaissance, project of the first Kiev international biennale of contemporary art Chocolate House, Kiev, Ukrain, 2012
Art Verona International Art Fair Exhibition, Oct.6 – Oct.10th, Verona, Italy 2011
Veneto Regional Archive for Video Art, Oct.-Nov, Verona, Italy, 2011
Visual Container [BOX] Videoart project space, Nov15th – Nov 29 th, Milan, Verona, Italy 2011
“Zero Kilometer” Video Art Project, Art Container at New Holland, July-August, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2011
Kinotavr Film Festival, Video Art Program, Sochi, Russia, 4-11 June,2011.
Video program “Saison video 2011” of Espace Croise Center of Contemporary Art, Lille Cedex, France, 2011
Action Planning# 3 – Interludes, Leon Blum. Paris, France, 2 Oct 2010
Opencinema, St.Petersburg,Russia, 2010
Hydroponics. Young Artists From Saint-Petersburg. Project of Live Perm Russia 10 Jun- 10 July 2010
Action Planning #1, Angle Art Contemporian, Saint Paul Trois Chateaux, France, 12 Aug- 16 Oct, 2010
Art Video Exchange, Örebro, Norway, December 27, 2009
Special Project of 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ultra – New Materiality, Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, September 24 – October 25, Moscow, Russia, 2009
Festival Contemporary Art in Traditional Museum, PRO ARTE Institute project in Children’s Museum Center for History Education “Bolotnaya 13”, 26 September – 18 October, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2009
Darklight Festival 2009, Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin, Ireland, October 8-11 2009
Open Cinema 2009, The 5 International short and animation film festival, Saint – Petersburg, Russia, 7 – 15August,,2009
Silentium! Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, June-July 27 ,2009
Macula, curated by Red Shoes Bureau, channel Souvenirs from the earth (canal 129on FreeboxTv, canal 41 on Kabel Tv, canal 298 on Untiymedia Tv), March 31-April 21, opening and screening Palais de Tokyo, March 31,Paris, France, 2009
El VIAJE, Centre Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aiers, Argentina, March 6 – April 14, 2009
SCOPE Cinema Program, The Russians are here! Program – A Stranger in a Strange Land, Lincoln Center, March 6, New York, USA, 2009
International Women’s Film Festival Night of Shorts, Market Arcade Cinema, Buffalo, NY, USA, March 5, 2009
PEEPSHOW: A Secret Worth Keeping! Squeaky Wheel/DNIPRO Ukrainian Center, Buffalo, NY, USA, February 21, 2009
Slide Fest “Places” International Centre of Photography, New York, USA, 14 November, 2008
In Translation Russia 2008, International Interdisciplinary Art Project, Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterenburg, National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, October – December 2008
FREEWAVES 2008, 11 festival of new media arts, Los Angeles on Hollywood Boulevard in October , USA, 2008
Video program «Saison video 2008» of Espace Croise center of Contemporary Art, Lille Cedex, France, 2008
International Video Festival in Orebro, Sweden, October 24 – 26, 2008
“The Great Repression “ – a selection of Young Russian video Art, Galerie Stanislas Bourgain, Paris, France, October 4, 2008
ESPACIOS DE ARTE INAUGURACIONES CCEBA Centero Cultural de Espana en Buenos Aires, Proyecto Arte de pantalla: Inquietante/disturbing/troublante/тревожных/perturbador/ 22 July – 10 September 2008, Brazil
OPEN CINEMA 2008 International Short and Animation Film Festival, Saint Petersburg, 8 – 16 August 2008, Russia
Izolenta/08 International Digital Film Festival,, Rodina Cinema Center, Saint – Petersburg, Russia, 11-13 May, 2007
SONIC SELF, Chelsea Art Museum NYC, July 17 – August 30, 2008 USA
International festival IZOLENTA 08, Union cinema, Sankt– Petersburg, Russia, May 16th – 17th, 2008
DRIFT – Volta New York – Special Project, 7w 34th Street, during the Armory Week, NYC, USA March 27th – 30th 2008
Louise Blouin Media and Modern Painters magazine present their collaboration with DiVA 2008 – the Digital and Video Art Fair, New York, in a series of daily panel discussions exploring contemporary new media and working practices featuring international video artists, curators, writers, editors and gallerists. Working Practice (Part I) Masha Sha and Tom Jarmusch have been selected by the editorial team of Modern Painters to discuss their process and their works, White Box Gallery, New York, USA March 22, 2008
The Great Repression – a Selection of Recent Video Art By Young, Emerging Russian Artists, White Box Gallery, New York , March 14 – 22, 2008
The ArtHouse Miami/ The Unfair 07 with White Box Gallery (NY), running parallel to The Miami Basel Art Fair, Miami Beach, USA, 4-11 December, 2007
“VARIA” group show, Janos Gat Gallery, New York, USA, 1-16 December, 2007
“Russian performance at Elverket”, small scene of The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, 17- 18 November, 2007
“Collisionscollusions” exhibition of time-based works in Film, Performance, Video, Experimental music, and Networked actions, Big Orbit Gallery, USA, Buffalo, 9 – 11 November 2007
20th Instants Video Festival, at l’An Vert de Liège , Belgium, December 15, 2007
Russian program “Stekliannoe pole – Russian Experimental Films and Videos from 2001 to 2007″ Avanto Festival” at the Kiasma Theatre, Finland , 17 November, 2007
Art Video Exchange festival 2007, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, September 18 – 20th 2007
Festival Contemporary Art in Traditional Museum, PRO ARTE Institute, project in Museum of Astronautics and Rocketry, St Petersburg, Russia, 29 September–21 October 2007
«Adventures of the Black Square» The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia 28 June – 30 September 2007
The Thin Ice Collective: Here und Dort, Group Exhibition about cross-culture art and travel in collaboration with a hand-picked selection of German and Russian artists, Mina Dresden gallery, San Francisco, USA, August 9th thru August 22nd 2007
Notes from the Overpass: New Art from Los Angeles & St. Petersburg, Group Exhibition, gallery G 18, Helsinki, Finland, August 21 – September 18, 2007
Participation in 7 Mediaforum of 29 Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia 28 June 2007
Izolenta/07 International Digital Film Festival, special mention of jury in nomination vide art, Rodina Cinema Center, Saint – Petersburg, Russia, 11-13 May, 2007
Special project of Art Moscow «Shargorod. The first landing» Central House Of Artists, Moscow, Russia, 16 – 20 May, 2007
Exhibition Project / Shargorod. Afterword…Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA, Kiev, Ukraine, 11.04 – 29.04.2007
2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, special project: Art Digital 2007: The Borderline State, M’ARS Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia,28 February – 1 aril 2007
Program of Russians, Latvian Estonian and Rumanian video artists, Villa Du Parc center for contemporary art, Geneva, Switzerland, 26 January 2007
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid. Paris, the theater movie Entrepot, November the 29th, 2006. Madrid at the Circulo de Bellas Artes from April 28th to May 5th 2007. Berlin, Kino Babylon Mitte| June 25th-30th, 2007
12th International Pärnu Fideo and Vilm Festival PAIN IN THE CLASS, Pärnu Mud Baths (Ranna 1), Estonia, 18 th-19 November 2006
4th edition of INPORT – International Video-Performance Art Festival, Tallinn, Estonia, December 2006.
The V International Video Art Program of Alcoi VAIA 2006, Alcoi, Spain 2006
Video program «Saison video 2007» of Espace Croise center of Contemporary Art, Lille Cedex, France, 2007
The F_SPACE international exhibition, Trianon Theater, Paris, France, October 27 to 30, 2006
The 19th festival of Les INSTANTS VIDEO with the Saison Numriques, organised by the magazine BREF an international video art program Paris : Cinema MK2, 3 October, Aix-en- Provence 18 October, Marseille 16 November, Mar del Plata (Argentina) 7 December 2006
Festival of contemporary art «Art-status»- Kemerovo. Kemerovo region philharmonic of Kuzbass, Kemerovo, Russia, 11 – 15 September 2006
Festival of contemporary art – art camp, «Art place Shargorod» organized by association of contemporary art development «Metafuturism» – Moscow and «Spiderprojects» – Moscow, Ukraine, Shargorod, 10-20 August 2006
V Moscow Festival of Video Art «PUSTO» («EMPTY»), Fabric_ project, Moscow, Russia, 24-27 August 2006
Shot film festival «Open cinema» beach of Peter and Paul Fortress and cinema «Rodina» St.-Petersburg, Russia 5-13 August 2006
Participation in 6 Media Forum of 28 Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia 24-27 June 2006
3-d International video-art festival in public spaces «OUT VIDEO», Yekaterinburg, Russia June 5 – July 5, 2006
«Leningrad’s modernism. Look from 21 century», group photo exhibition, Union of Architectures, St.-Petersburg, June 2006
Video screening in the project «Inter people. I am.», cinema «Barricada»,Kaliningrad, Russia, 5 May 2006
«Formula of clay» video and ceramics exhibition, The RusskiAlbum Foundation, the «KvadraT» gallery, St.-Petersburg, Russia, 30 March-1 May 2006
Participation in video program of SKIF10 (Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival), «Priboy» cinema, St.-Petersburg, Russia, 20-23 April 2006
First International young artist project Mars Field, Mars Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 24 March-9 April 2006
«Do not Disturb» video exhibition of three young video artists, Moscow Center of Arts, Moscow, Russia, 3-19 March 2006
«None» video performance work with group «Sonotations of Mutations», PRO ARTE Institute, St.-Petersburg, Russia, 27 December 2005
«Clean Art» objects, installations and video, final project of Pro Arte students, parallel program of Festival of Contemporary Art in Traditional Museums, Ioanovsky Rovelin,Peter and Paul Fortress, St.-Petersburg, Russia, 24 September-2 October 2005
First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, parallel program, Art Digital, «I click, that means I exist”, Mars Center of contemporary art, Moscow, Russia, 29 January–28 February 2005
Participation in «Videodance», First Russian Video Competition of 4th International Festival, St.-Petersburg, Russia, November 2004
«Advertising», project of Pro Arte students «WAR» at Festival of Contemporary Art in Traditional Museums, Historical Museum of Artillery, St.-Petersburg, Russia, September 2004
Residency
NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art. Helsinki, Finland, August 2005
Professional Experience
Adjunct Professor, University at Buffalo, Media Studies Dept., “Experimental Documentary Animation”, Summer 2009