
Parallel to Anastasia Samoylova’s major institutional exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Saatchi Gallery in London, we are delighted to present her latest series, Image Cities, a photographic journey through some of the world’s most prominent metropolises, including New York, Paris, London, Zurich, Tokyo, and Milan. The artist turns her camera towards the publicly visible images that shape the façades of these cities. Rather than highlighting what makes these places unique, she reveals what they have in common: the menacing and gradual homogenisation of consumer culture, emerging from a world increasingly dominated by corporations.
Opening Reception: Friday, 9 November, 6—8pm
Anastasia Samoylova (1984) is an American artist who moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation. By utilizing tools related to digital media and commercial photography, her work explores notions of environmentalism, consumerism and the picturesque.
Her books FloodZone and Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova & Walker Evans were published by Steidl, her book Image Cities is out with Hatje Cantz. Her works have been presented in solo exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum of Art; Orlando Museum of Art; Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa; The Print Center Philadelphia, the Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, C/O Berlin, Germany, and the KBr Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona, Spain, among others. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Perez Art Museum, Miami; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; among others.
Anastasia Samoylova was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022 and received the first KBr Photo Award by KBr Fundación MAPFRE. In the Fall/Winter of 2024/25, two major institutional exhibitions of her work will be on view at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Saatchi Gallery in London. Her monograph Adaptations has just been published by Thames and Hudson.





Anastasia Samoylova (b. 1984, Moscow; lives in Miami) moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation. In 2020 she had her first solo museum exhibition of ongoing project FloodZone at USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa. With over 80 photographs, the book of the project was published by Steidl in 2019.


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