Anastasia Samoylova

Anastasia Samoylova (born in 1984, Moscow) is a Russian-born American artist working through documentary and studio photography on landscape and environmental research such as sea level rise in South Florida.

Education and early life Born in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, she relocated to Miami Beach, Florida, in 2016, where her visual investigation FloodZone started to develop.

She holds a master's degree from Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia (2007), and an MFA from Bradley University (2011), in Peoria, Illinois.

Work Anastasia Samoylova's work investigate changes in the landscape of coastal cities in the United States and beyond. Her work is mainly focused on South Florida, where she is based, and Miami Beach architectural landmarks such as the Shore Apartments take part in her artistic oeuvre.

In 2024, The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, presented a traveling iteration of Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone, a major career survey to date including over forty artworks by Samoylova. The exhibition touches on climate crisis and environmental concerns through landscape photographic imagery.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art organized a two-person show in its 2024-2025 exhibition Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans featuring Samoylova's work and Walker Evans photographs. The exhibition research and visual relation between both artists expanded into a publication launched in 2022 and published by Thames and Hudson.

Personal life Samoylova became an American citizen in 2021.

Collections Samoylova's work is included in US-based and international museum collections such as the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Illinois.

Awards and honors In 2022, Anastasia Samoylova was shortlisted for the German award Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. She was the 2023 winner of the KBr Photo Award by Fundación MAPFRE, Spain.

Publications

Flood Zone (2019). Göttingen: Steidl. ISBN 978-3958296336. Anastasia Samoylova (2024). Thames & Hudson. .