ARTISTS
Artists ─ Represented
Anastasia Samoylova
Known for：〈FloodZone〉〈Floridas〉
Anastasia Samoylova (b. 1984, Russia) is an American artist whose practice moves between observational photography and studio-based work. Relocating to Miami in 2016, she developed an immersive visual approach that examines how landscapes—natural and urban—are shaped by cultural narratives, political forces, and environmental change. Her acclaimed first monograph, FloodZone (Steidl, 2019), explores the visual language of climate vulnerability in flood-prone communities. This inquiry expanded with Floridas (Steidl, 2022), a kaleidoscopic portrait of the state’s layered identity, recently exhibited alongside Walker Evans at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2024–2025).
In Image Cities (Fundación MAPFRE/Hatje Cantz, 2023), Samoylova turned her lens to global metropolises, reflecting on the saturation of media imagery in shaping urban environments. Her upcoming project, Atlantic Coast—debuting at the Norton Museum of Art in Fall 2025 with a monograph from Aperture—retraces Berenice Abbott’s Route 1 series, questioning the myths of freedom, movement, and belonging embedded in the American landscape.
Samoylova’s work has been exhibited internationally, including the Saatchi Gallery, London; C/O Berlin; Fundación MAPFRE; George Eastman Museum; and Kunst Haus Wien. Her photographs are held in major collections such as The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Published monographs include FloodZone, Floridas, Image Cities, and Adaptation (Thames & Hudson, 2024).
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Atlantic Coast. The Norton Museum of Art. November 15, 2025 – March 1, 2026. West Palm
Beach, FL
2024
Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
Adaptation. Saatchi Gallery. London, UK
Image Cities. Museo Ruso de Málaga. Malaga, Spain
Image Cities. Da2. Salamanca, Spain
Image Cities. Schloss Lenzburg, Fotofestival Lenzburg. Switzerland
Floridas. Amerika Haus. Munich, Germany
FloodZone. UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Baltimore, MD
2023
Image Cities. Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, Spain
Image Cities. Fundación Mapfre, Barcelona, Spain
Floridas. C/O Berlin. Germany
FloodZone. UP Gallery. Hsinchu City. Taiwan
FloodZone. Phakt Cultural Center. Rennes, France
FloodZone. Studio Hanniball. Berlin, Germany
Image Cities. Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2022
FloodZone, Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
FloodZone, Guernsey Museum, Guernsey, UK
FloodZone, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
FloodZone, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
Breakfasts, Images Vevey Festival, Switzerland
Floridas, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Floridas, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Floridas, Galerie Peter Sillem, Frankfurt, Germany
2021
FloodZone, HistoryMiami Museum. Miami, FL
FloodZone, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
FloodZone, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, Russia
Landscape Sublime, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
FloodZone, Orlando Museum of Art, FL
FloodZone, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
FloodZone, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020
FloodZone, Contemporary Art Museum at USF, Tampa, FL
FloodZone, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
FloodZone, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, FL
FloodZone, Galerie Peter Sillem, Frankfurt, German
*Complete content can be found on the artist’s official website: https://www.anasamoylova.com/
Group Exhibitions
2025
Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene. Cantor Arts Center. Stanford University. CA
2024
Photo Cities: How Images Shape the Urban World. Victoria and Albert Museum Dundee, UK
Second Nature: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene. Nasher Museum of Art. NC
A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, VA
Reflections: Surface and Substance. Torggler Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
Urban Chronicles: American Color Photography. Hyundai Card. Seoul, Korea
Artists: Daniel Arnold, William Eggleston, Saul Leiter, Vivian Meier, Joel Meyerowitz,
Anastasia Samoylova, Stephen Shore
Dialogues on Humanity. National Museum, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Capriccio. Mary Ramsden, Anastasia Samoylova, Marion Verboom. Wentrup Venezia. Venice, Italy
South Florida Cultural Consortium. Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, FL
2023
Urbanism: Rosemary Laing, Boris Mikhailov, Anastasia Samoylova, Stephen Sore, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth. Galerie Conrads, Berlin
2022
America in Crisis, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Walker Evans Revisited, Museum Helmond, Netherlands
Uncanny – Contemporary Southern Photography, Columbus State University, OH
Beyond the Frame, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, IL
2021
Send Me an Image, C/O Berlin, Germany
After Us, the Flood, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Alien Nations, Coral Gables Museum, FL
Natural Transcendence, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
2020
You and Me and Everyone We Know, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, SP
Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum & Kunsthalle Mannheim, GE
Americans Looking In, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Florida Wild, McKenzie, Miami, FL
*Complete content can be found on the artist’s official website: https://www.anasamoylova.com/
Artist Resdency
2019
Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
2018
Art Center South Florida, FL
2017
The Studios at Mass MoCA, MA
2016
Fountainhead Studios, Miami, FL
2015
Latitude Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014-2013
Prairie Center for the Arts, Peoria, IL
Reviews & Publications
2024
Adaptation. Thames & Hudson, UK
2023
Image Cities. Fundación Mapfre, Spain
2022
Floridas. Steidl, Göttingen, Germany
2019
FloodZone. Steidl, Göttingen, Germany
2015
Landscape Sublime. In the In-Between, USA
Awards & Collections
2024
Miami-Dade Individual Artists (MIA) Grant. Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs with the support of the Miami-Dade County Mayor, the Board of County Commissioners, and the Cultural Affairs Council.
2023
South Florida Cultural Consortium
2022
Miami Artists Access, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, FL
2021
KBr Fundación MAPFRE Photography Award, Barcelona, Spain
Deutsche Börse Prize Shortlist, Frankfurt, Germany and London, UK
America: Now and Then, MPB & 1854 The British Journal of Photography Grant, UK
Art in Public Places Commission, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
2018
State Fellowship, South Arts, Atlanta, GA
Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography, New Orleans, LA
Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL
George Eastman Museum, NY
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Germany
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Deutsche Boerse Art Collection, Germany
Vontobel Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Jorge Perez Collection, Miami, FL
University of Miami, Miami, FL
The Related Group, Miami, FL
Fidelity Investments Art Collection, New York, NY
Boston Consulting Group Art Collection, Boston, MA
ArtSlant Collection, Paris, France
