Marina Istomina (b. 1993, Ust-Kut, Russia) is an artist working with studies of memory, trauma and particularly with traumatic experience. As she is from Siberia, she creates the projects closely with local context and relevant Siberian issues, involving small personal stories into the big ones. Her practice often based on interviews and archives, embodied through visual images. In 2015 she graduated in Cultural Studies from the Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) and in 2019 she completed the course Experiences of Contemporary Photography at Docdocdoc School of Contemporary Photography (St. Petersburg, Russia).

 

Exhibitions include: In the N apartment, all tricks are taken seriously, ZGA Gallery, St. Petersburg (2019); MoS Photo Prize, Art of Omsk City Museum (2019); Young Artists That Oksana Budulak and Sanya Zakirov Liked This Winter, Ploshchad Mira Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk (2020); and Young Photographers of Russia 2020, Innovative Cultural Center, Kaluga; Exhibition Hall, Tula (2020), Assuming the Distance: Speculations, Fakes and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow). She is a winner of The Calvert Journal Makers of Siberia Special Jury Prize (2019), the New East Photo Prize (2020), the Competition Krakow ShowOFF Section at Krakow Photomonth Festival (2021) and nominated for FUTURES Talents 2021. She lives and works in Ust-Kut and Moscow.