IVAN MIKHAILOV

b. 1981, Novocheboksarsk, Russia

Ivan Mikhailov was born on January 15th, 1981 in Novocheboksarsk, Russia. In 2003 he graduated from the Chuvash Pedagogical State University with a degree in fine arts and drawing.  Playground is a series of photographs taken between 2009 and 2010 of vacant rocket ship style playgrounds built in Russia during the Space Race.

Mikhailov has been exhibited widely since 2009 and included in such exhibitions as "Fashion and Style in Photography", 2009(Moscow), Photobiennale, 2010 (Moscow),  "Rencontres d'Arles", 2010 (Abbaye de Montmajour, France), “Time within us”, 2010 (Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey), “Untold hopes” 2010(Chateau d'Eau Gallery, Toulouse, France), “Noorderlicht”, 2011 (Groningen, Netherlands), “Backlight”, 2011 (Tampere, Finland),  “LianzhouFOTO”, 2011 (Lianzhou, China), “Russian cosmos”, 2011 (Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy), "10 Curators / 10 Artists" ,2012 (Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, USA), "Playground" ,2012 (Glaz Gallery, Moscow, Russia) . Mikhailov's photos are in collections of the Moscow House of Photography, Nizhny Novgorod Museum of Photography History, the National Museum of Chuvashia and private Collection in France, Italy, America, Canada, Germany. Ivan Mikhailov currently lives and works in Moscow.