Maria Safronova

Born in 1979 in Rzhev, Maria Safronova graduated from the Vasily Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and the Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art under the auspices of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. The artist currently lives and works in Moscow.

Portraying the everyday scenes glimpsed in various public institutions – kindergartens, hospitals, offices – Maria explores the ways in which the social environment shapes modern consciousness. Her visual manner evokes icon painting and 15th–16th-century Dutch masterpieces through composition, clearly delineated shapes and forms, and linear perspective.