Vasily Pindyurin (b. 1984, Urusha, Amur region, Russia) is an artist who works with themes of relations between individuals and large structures (power, history, nature, memory). In his practice he uses mainly direct and staged photography, but also resorts to digital manipulations, uses collage when working with archives. Since the age of 18 he has lived in the city of Blagoveshchensk, on the border with China. Now lives and works in St. Petersburg. 

Education 

2025, Exercises in Conceptualization, curated by Yuri Gudkov (Photodepartament)

2024, Add to Make Art Happen, curated by Nadezhda Sheremetova (Photodepartament)

 2023, Non-Commercial Portraiture, course by Arseny Neskhodimov (Photoplay School, Russia) 

2021, Curatorial Forum 2021, Decisions workshops (St. Petersburg, Russia) 

2018-2020 — studying photography at Docdocdoc School of Contemporary Photography (St. Petersburg, Russia). 

2017-2018 — studied contemporary photography at the school of Elena Sukhoveeva and Victor Khmel (Krasnodar, Russia). 

2001-2006 — Amur State University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, specialty Information Systems and Technologies. 

Solo Exhibitions 

2019, SPCMN, Zerno Gallery, Russia, Saint Petersburg. Curator Natalia Chebotareva

Group Exhibitions 

2024, International Photo Festival in Yerevan with the project Littorea (Yerevan, Armenia)

2024, Festival of photobooks “NIZINA” with the project MOKLA (St. Petersburg, Russia) 2024, Festival of photobooks “ZHERDELA” with the project MOKLA (Rostov on Don, Russia) 

2023, SAMIZDAL, Festival of photobooks “Gogol’s Library” (St. Petersburg, Russia), 

2023, TRIKOTAZHKA ZINE FEST, photo book festival (Sergiev Posad, Russia) 

2023, IZDALI, photo book festival (Kaliningrad, Russia) 

2023, ZHERDELA Photo Book Festival (Rostov on Don, Russia) 

2023, HISTORY, DOCUMENT, OBJECT, photo book exhibition, PENNLAB Gallery (Moscow) 

2022, ZHERDELA photo festival (Rostov on Don, Russia) 

2022, ZERO ROOM, NIZINA photo festival (Samara) 

2022, PROGRAPHICS, NIZINA photo festival (St. Petersburg) 

2022, FAB8, KORESHKI photo festival (Novosibirsk) 

2021, Soyuzpechat gallery, Fotobookmarket mannequin prize exhibition (Moscow, Vinzavod) 

2020, Port Sevkabel, (St. Petersburg) 

2020, ZGA Gallery, (online www.zgallery.ru), group exhibition “Photography in the Light of Pandemic”, curated by: Feodora Domozhilova-Kaplan 

2019, Festival “Presence” (St. Petersburg, Russia, Russia), group exhibition “Collectivity. Axis of the World, ” curated by Yuri Gudkov, Nadya Sheremetova. 2019, Solo exhibition of SPCMN.3 project at Zerno Gallery (St. Petersburg, Russia), curated by Natalia Chebotareva. 

2018, PhotoVisa Festival (Krasnodar, Russia), group exhibition Northern Accent, curated by Elena Sukhoveeva. 

Awards 

2024, HSE photo contest of Otprint magazine, Project Littorea, Winner, 1st place

2024, Urbanautica Institut Awards, Littorea — special mention

2021, Fotobookmarket dummy award 2021, Moscow, Russia, nomination “Best Book” — Winner, 1st place