Maria Snigirevskaya

Born in Leningrad in 1967. Began taking photographs in 1980 at the age of thirteen. (Ms. Snigirevskaya is the daughter of the late Boris Smelov, one of the most famous Russian photographers of the previous generation.) From 1983, she has worked as a professional photographer. From 1986 she worked as a photographer for the Russian State Museum. Member of the Russian Photographer’s Union since 1992. Recipient of the award of the publishing house "Planeta" (Moscow) in 1992. 1998-2000, recognized as a recipient of State stipend as an activist for the culture and art of Russia. From 2001, Ms. Snigirevskaya has worked as a freelance artist.

Exhibitions (partial)

• 1991 "AND"- LETI, St. Petersburg
• "Photo-Manifesto" The Former Greyhound Bus Terminal, Baltimore, and Fine Arts Gallery, Long Island University, South Hampton, USA
• 1992 Les Experiences Photographique Russes", Paris France
• 1993 "Kunst-Ausstellung Korschenbrouch", Dusseldorf, Germany
• "Russian Photography", Fabriken Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 1996 "Art-Genda 96" Cobenhavn, Denmark
• "Pushkinskaya, 10: Avant-garde from Petersburg, Columbus Museum of Modern Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA
• "Concept" Zagreb, Croatia
• 1997 "Russian Photographers; Renewal and Metamorphoses from the late Soviet era to the 1990s", MIT Museum, Fichtung Art Museum, USA
• "Biennale Fodar" Pleven, Bulgaria (winner of the "Agfa" prize)

Collections:

In numerous museums in Russia, the USA, Germany, Switzerland and France

• Publications (partial):
• Fotomagazin, No 10, Munchen-Hamburg 1989 (under maiden name, Jilina Maria)
• Photo Manifesto, Contemporary Photography in the USSR, Walker, Ursitti and McGinniss, 1991
• Les Experiences photographique Russes, Paris, 1992
• Bang Krig, No 2, Stockholm, 1993
• Fotographia No 9-10, Moscow, 1993
• Self-Identification, Berlin, 1994
• Pulse, St. Petersburg, July 1995
• Russian Photoart, Moscow, 1995
• ArtGenda ’96, Cobenhavn, 1996
• Concept, Zagreb, 1996
• Subjective, No 2, St. Petersburg, 1996
• Cirque Olympe, Samara, 1996
• Photographer St. Petersburg, No 2, St. Petersburg, 1996
• Retikuliatsi, No 5, Cheboksary, 1996
• Photo and Video, No 1, Moscow, January 1999
• Art-Document-Photo, Pleven, Bulgaria, 1999
• Photographing Women, Moscow, 1999
• Men in my life, catalog of exhibition, Moscow, 2000
• Photomagazin, No 3, 2001 Moscow
• Foto (Siberian Views) No 1, Novosibirsk, 2001
• New World Art, May 2001, St. Petersburg
• Art chronika, No 2, 2001, Moscow
• Biennale Fhodar, catalog of exhibition, Pleven, Bulgaria, 2001