She was born in Yekaterinburg (Russia) in 1984.
Lives in Moscow and Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Education
2014-2015 – «Photodepartment.Institute» (Nadia Sheremetova's workshop «Photo. Post graduate»), St. Petersburg, Russia
2011-2014 – The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia (the course of Documentary Photography by Valeriy Nistratov), Moscow
2001-2006 – Ural State Economic University (degree in Economics), Ekaterinburg, Russia
Solo exhibitions (selective)
2020
«CHAD», «Bogorodskoye» Gallery (Association «Exhibition Halls of Moscow»), Moscow
2018
«The Big Game», Museum Center «Peace Square», Krasnoyarsk, Russia
«The Big Game», Krasnodar regional art museum of F.A. Kovalenko, Krasnodar, Russia
2017
«The Big Game», Boris Yeltsin Museum, Ekaterinburg, Russia
«The Big Game», Kaliningrad museum «Friedland Gates», Kaliningrad, Russia
«The Big Game», Сenter for contemporary culture «Smena», Kazan, Russia
«The Big Game», Voronezh center of the contemporary arts, Voronezh, Russia
Group exhibitions (selective)
2020
«ON.AIR», art-residence «Dacha of the Ryabushinsky», Vyshny Volochek, Russia, curators Anna Legotina and Mari Sokol
«Critical landscapes», online-exhibition ARTDOC photography magazine
«Data 3», online-exhibition, curator Evgeniya Zhingel
«What Women Want», «Park» Gallery (Association “Exhibition Halls of Moscow”), Moscow, curator Anastasia Kozachenko-Stravinskaya
2019
«Homo ludens: the man playing», «Ark» Gallery, Moscow, curator Anastasia Kozachenko-Stravinskaya
2016
book exhibition «Special edition: The photobook in Russia», the Photographic museum House of Metenkov, Ekaterinburg, Russia, curator Anastasia Bogomolova
2015
«Voices», Gallery «A3», Moscow, curator Elena Konyushikhina
«The life he lived, and still alive. Tribute B.U.Kashkinu», Museum of Soviet naive, Perm, Russia, curators Vladimir Seleznev, Olga Komleva
«Holiday», Museum Center «Peace Square», Krasnoyarsk, Russia, curators Maria Ilbeikina, Alexey Martins, Katerina Kuzubova
2014
«The city in which you can», Museum Center «Peace Square», Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2013
«Black and white childhood», The Museum Association «Moscow City Museum», Moscow
«Experiments in Art School. Exploring Ekaterinburg», Ural branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia, curators Svetlana Usoltseva, Ilya Shipilovskikh, Elizaveta Yuzhakova
Biennials, festivals
2019
10th edition Phodar Biennial, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017
«Young photography 2017», festival «Presence», St. Petersburg, Russia, curators Nadya Sheremetova, Yuri Gudkov
2016
«At the intersection of times», Fotoparad in Uglich, Uglich, Russia, curator Artem Berkovich
2015
short list of the competition «Fotomaniya-2015», Baltic Biennial of the photo, Kaliningrad, Russia
2014
«Radar», ViennaPhotoBookFestival, Vienna, Austria, curator Anastasia Khoroshilova
International festival of a videoart «SEYChAS&POTOM’14», Moscow
2013
Pingyao international photography festival, Pingyao, China
Awards
2016
International Photography Grant, «People» nomination, 3rd place, International Photography Magazine, UK
Auctions
2020
Charity auction «Photographers to Doctors», organized by the «Fotografika» Academy in cooperation with the «Zhivoi» Foundation and the EverydayRussia project, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2013
Charity auction in support of Sofia Tatarinova, organizer of the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Residences
2019
Camp as one (Anapa, Russia)
«Dacha of the Ryabushinsky» (Vyshny Volochyok, Russia)
Publications
2020
«Artdoc magazine», publication of artwork «Julia Abzaltdinova / Noise in the park»
«Bird in flight» magazine, interview «Head Smoke: A Protest Against the Office Car», Olga Bubich
2019
«Bird in flight» magazine, interview «Olympics, clerks and neurosis: Modern Russia in the portfolio of Julia Abzaltdinova», Anna Pozdneeva
2017
«Bleek Magazine», interview «The City as a Stadium: The Big Game of Julia Abzaltdinova», Olga Deryugina
2016
«International photogrvphy magazine», publication of artwork «Julia Abzaltdinova: The Big Game»
«Incandescent» magazine, issue №10 «Getting Back Where You Started», Portland, USA
2014
«Liberty.su» magazine, publication of artwork «Julia Abzaltdinova. Spectator pass»
Works are in private collections (Moscow, Venice).
The works are sold in the online galleries Znachimoe, FotoDepartment, Somodernart, ArtZip, Bird Print.
Jury member of the Baltic Biennale of Photography in Kaliningrad (2017).
