Maria Plavinskaya

Born on 21 July, 1952 in Moscow.

In 1979 graduated from the Department of Russian and Soviet art of the Moscow State University.

1979-1984 – worked at the exhibition department of the Central House of Artists, Moscow.

1991- 2004 – lived and worked in New York, USA.

In 1991 bought her first Pentax camera in New York.

Since 1997 a member of the AIC (Association of Art Critics).

In 2000 photographies by Maria Plavinskaya were published in the book: Dmitri Plavinsky / J. E. Bowlt, A. Jakimovich, E. Plavinskaya-Mikhailova, D. Plavinsky. - New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2000.

Currently lives and works in Moscow.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2008 – "A ruin building. Coliseum", The State Museum of Architecture named after A.B. Schusev, Moscow.
• 2009 – "Music of Spheres", a joint exhibition with Dmitry Plavinsky, Open gallery, Moscow.
• 2009 – "Divine Chariot", self-performance, Moscow.
• 2009 – "Old Jewish Cemetery", the artist's studio, Moscow.
• 2013 – "Portrait in beret", self-performance, Moscow.
• 2013 – "Stonehenge", the artist's studio, Moscow.
• 2014 – "Structures of Time", a joint exhibition with Dmitry Plavinsky, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2009 – "Universam", International Art Fair, Izvestiya Publishing House, Moscow.
• 2010 The first exhibition of the Third Avant-garde. Curator Victor Orehanov. Everything is art! Gallery, Moscow.
• 2010 – "Melomanes", "The Brush". Curator Elena Romanova. Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
• 2011 – Video installation "The Brush" (2008). "Dmitry Plavinsky today" exhibition.
• The Chekhov House Exhibition Hall, Polina Lobachevskaya Gallery, Moscow.
• 2012 – "Melomanes-2". Curator Anatoly Gerasimov. Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
• 2012 – Photo installation "The Tree". "Bez(s) protesta(o)!" exhibition. Sahart, Art Creative Lab, Moscow.
• 2014 – Photo installation "A Bush" (2013). Curator Oleg Zak Ponomarev. Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
• 2014 – Three Cameras, Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York (USA).

The works by Maria Plavinskaya are presented in Russian private collections, and in the collection of Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg.