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Yevgen Nikiforov
Born in Vasylkiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, 1986.  Currently based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Started professional photography practice in 2005. Since 2013 has been working on independent documentary projects.  Member of UPHA(Ukrainian Photographic Alternative) collective since 2017. Member of Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) since 2020.
Exhibitions
2022   Discover Ukraine: Bits Destroyed, with Tais Poda, Rock'n' Light Studio, Ptakh Jung & Ukrainian Institute for Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, London(GDIF), London
2022   Before War, #ofamacquisition, Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Odesa, Ukraine
2022   Unfolding Landscapes – Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Art & History Museum, Brussels, Belgium
2022   Gmunden Photo Festival, Gmunden, Austria
2022   Unstable Condition: Greeting From A Stranger, Online exhibition of Ukrainian and Taiwanese artists  
2022   Unfolding Landscapes – Landscape and Poetics in Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Silkeborg Bad KunstCentre, Silkeborg, Denmark
2021   Imaginary Architecture for Imaginary Communities, Centrala Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2021   Sensitivity. Contemporary Ukrainian Photography, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2021   Children Are Surrounded by Art, Nikita Kadan, Yevgen Nikiforov, galerie TRANSIT, Mechelen, Belgium
2020   #bruederschaft, online, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Ukraine
2020   Encyclopedia of Architecture of Ukraine, ukrarchipedia.com/en
2020   The _____ist Surround, Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Košice, Slovakia
2020   Trespassers Will Be Detected?, SWAP: UK/UKRAINE arts residency programme by British Council Ukraine, Dnipro Centre for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro
2020   At the Frontline. Ukrainian Art 2013-2019, Oseredok – Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre, Winnipeg, Canada
2019   Who Am I, Detector Gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2019   We Go Backwards, The Naked Room, Kyiv
2019   UPHA in da office, StarLightMedia, Kyiv
2019   At the Front Line: Ukrainian Art Between the Revolution And the War, 2014-2018, Museo Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico City
2019   Between Fire and Fire: Ukrainian Art Now, Semperdepot Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien
2019   Looks Like I'm Entering Our Garden, The Biennale for Young Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019   Reading the Wreckage. Episode 2. Kmytiv Museum of Soviet Art, Kmytiv, Ukraine
2019   Carved in Smalto: Ukrainian Monumental Art of 1960-1980, Headquarters of the United Nations, New York, USA
2019   UPHA Made in Ukraine, AKT, Kyiv
2019   Zapomniana rzeźba, Ośrodek Sztuki Lescer, Zalesie Górne, Poland
2019   Way of Aeneas. Artists of the present are self-in-itself with the past, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019   Architecture. Community. Time, Mala Galereya of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2018   See Ukraine. An Empty Pedestal, Jour et Nuit Culture gallery, Paris, France 
2018   See Ukraine. An Empty Pedestal, LOVAAS Gallery, Munich, Germany 
2018   It May Be Art, Zhovten Cinema, Zhytomyr, Ukraine
2018   Zdekomunizowane: radzieckie mozaiki Ukrainy, Gallery Gardzienice, Lublin, Poland
2018   On Republic’s Monuments, Palace of Children and Youths, Kyiv
2018   Permanent Revolution. Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest
2017   Return of Memory. HOME, Manchester, UK
2017   Today That Never Happened. Festival of Young Ukrainian Artists. Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2017   Attention, border! (as a part of Open Group collective), Galeria Labyrynt, Lublin, Poland
2017   Revolusjon. Sølvberget galleri, Stavanger, Norway
2017   Art/Work. Dworzec Główny, Wroclaw, Poland
2017   Art/Work. Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2016   De Ne De. The Institute of information, Kyiv
2015   Nad Bogom. Rossia cinema, Vinnytsya, Ukraine
2014   Maidan, 50 Best Photographs. IX ART KYIV Contemporary, Mysteckyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2014   #Euromaidan. National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
2010   Enjoy the Silence. Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Books
2020   Ukraine. Art for Architecture. Soviet Modernist Mosaics 1960 to 1990, Dom Publishers, Berlin
2017   Decommunized: Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics. Osnovy Publishing, Kyiv / Dom Publishers, Berlin (Best Art Book Design and Grand Prix at Book Arsenal 2017), Kyiv
2015   #randomtags, photobook, self-publishing, Kyiv
Filmography 
2020   Metro / Encyclopedia Of Architecture Of Ukraine
2020   The Kodaky in Progress / Encyclopedia Of Architecture Of Ukraine
2018   Kettlebells oh my Kettlebells, 14, produced by Nadia Parfan / 86 Film Festival, Kyiv
2017   Steelmakers, 6, produced by Nadia Parfan / 86 Film Festival, Kyiv
Residencies
2019   SWAP UK/Ukraine, Glasgow Sculptural Studios, Glasgow, UK
2019   SWAP UK/Ukraine, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, UK
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