Nikita Shokhov
About the Artist
Nikita Shokhov is a visual artist, the human being is the central subject of his practice along with philosophical agendas. Works with XR, documentary, volumetric video, photography, and film. Recipient of the World Press Photo and Nova Art awards and a shortlist of Cannes XR Development Showcase. Studied immersive environments in Virginia Tech; experimental filmmaking in California Institute of the Arts with Betsy Bromberg, where he also staged a theater piece augmented with VR; and documentary photography in Rodchenko Art School Moscow with Igor Mukhin; he worked in The Watermill Center theater residency with Robert Wilson on developing his opera productions.
He had shows and screenings in such institutions as Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Manifesta Biennale 10 (St. Petersburg), 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 5th Photoquai Biennial (Paris), GRAD Gallery (London), Baltic Biennale of Photography (Kaliningrad), Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Spring / Break Art Show (New York), Redcat Cinema (Los Angeles), Cube.Moscow, Yeltsin Center (Yekaterinburg), ACM IMX (online), Gallery 11.12 (Moscow), Art Doc Fest (Moscow), CYFEST (St. Petersburg), Iragui Gallery.
Has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Apollo, Harper's Bazaar Art, ARTnews, Art Observer, Interview Russia, L'Express, Courrier International, China Newsweek, Calvert Journal, L'Officiel, Kommersant, Afisha, Colta.ru
