MASHA VLASOVA
Born: Russian Federation
Lives & works: Atlanta, GA
mvlasov@emory.edu
EDUCATION
M.F.A., 2016, Yale University School of Art
B.F.A., 2011, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
FELLOWSHIPS + ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, June-August, 2024.
MacDowell Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, April, 2024. (successful application, fellowship)
Arteles Creative Center, Finland, June, 2022. (successful application)
Stove-Works Artist Residency, Chattanooga, TN, June, 2021. (invitation)
PlySpace Residency Program, Muncie Arts and Culture Council, Muncie, Indiana, 2019. (successful application, stipend)
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, 2018. (successful application, opportunity declined)
Research Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2016. (successful application, fellowship, stipend)
JUNCTURE Art and Human Rights Initiative Fellowship, Yale Law School, Yale University, 2015. (successful application, fellowship, stipend)
Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, Yale School of Art, Yale University, 2015. (successful application, felllowship, stipend)
International Jewish Artist Retreat, Asylum Arts, New York, 2015. (successful application)
24 BY 36, Ace Hotel Residency, NYC, 2013. (curatorial invitation)
Research Fellowship, Central Asian Studies Institute, American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyz Republic, 2013. (successful application, fellowship, stipend)
Fulbright Fellowship in Film-making, IIE Fulbright, Kyrgyz Republic, 2012. (successful application, fellowship, stipend)
FILM AWARDS
Best Celluloid Film for “Un-Tidal,” EFEA (Experimental Film Festival of East Anglia), 2022.
EFEA Award for Original Concept for “Un-Tidal,” EFEA (Experimental Film Festival of East Anglia), 2022.
Audience Choice Award for “Her Type,” Burnt Video Art and Experimental Film Festival 3.4, 2021
Robert Breer Film and Video Award for “The Mothers,” Cooper Union, New York, NY, 2012.
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON SCREENINGS + EXHIBITIONS
Rehearsals, <terminal> Gallery, APSU, Clarksville, TN, 2021.
Masha Vlasova at Casserole Series, April 2021.
Solo Screening of New Work, Death Factory & PlySpace Gallery, Muncie, IN, 2020.
I Don’t Think You Can See the Island: New Video Work by Masha Vlasova, Serial Box Projects, Columbia, MO, 2018.
Monuments and Other Things that Change Screening and Discussion, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2018.
Frame Work: Works by Astri Snodgrass and Masha Vlasova, The Fuller Projects, Bloomington, IN, 2017.Three Songs About: Sculpture MFA Thesis Exhibition, Greene Gallery at the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, 2016.
Untitled. Woman, 3⁄4 View: Solo-show of New Work by Masha Vlasova, Hadas Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2014.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS + FESTIVALS
FORTHCOMING: Everything is Perfect and Nothing is Perfect, Off the Wall @ 725 Ponce, Atlanta, GA, September 13-14, 2024
FORTHCOMING: The We Make Movies International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, dates TBD
FORTHCOMING: Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA, Un-Tidal, DATES TBD
FORTHCOMING: Social Objects, GoodYear Arts, Charlotte, NC, Aug-Sept, 2024
aDifferent Program, aCinema Summer Screening Series 8, Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI, July 19 - 21, 2024.
Wide Open Experimental Film Festival (WOEFF), Oklahoma City Museum Of Art, Oklahoma City, OK, April 2024.
Mientras tanto CINE, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 2024.
6th Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2024.
Finalist for BLOW-UP Chicago International Art-house Film Festival, Chicago, IL, January, 2024.
Enmeshed, Dreams of Water, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, NYC, September 2023 - January 2024.
The Wrong Biennale, nonplace.site, online, November 2023 - March 2024.
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Special Screening “Dots, Lines, Washes: Animating Ink,” Sept 21, 2023.
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, Sept 13-17, 2023.
Here There: International Artists Working in the US, screening, Darmstadt, Germany, Jul 23, 2023.
Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Mexico City, Jun 29-July 19, 2023; Sept 21, 2023.
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, M, theater & online streaming, March 22-26, 2023.
“Wasting Time Youth” in China (Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing), Feb 4-11, 2023.
Harkat 16mm Film Festival, Mumbai, India, Dec 9-11, 2022.
Light Matter 2022, Alfred, NY, Nov 2-6, 2022.
The We Make Movies International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, Oct 5-9 2022.
Vector, Heaven Gallery in Chicago, IL, Sept 9-Oct 16, 2022.
Defy Film Festival, Nashville, TN, Aug 19-20, 2022.
Frame & Frequency VIII Extended Program, Rockville, MD, June 2 - Aug 7, 2022.
TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE, Sweden, July 2-9, 2022.
Ouray Film Festival noncompetitive program Don’t get too close: A program of contemporary short experimental fiction and nonfiction cinema, June, 2022.
CURRENTS 2022: Circuits, Currents New Media, New Mexico, June 2022.
Winner: EFEA (Experimental Film Festival of East Anglia), Norwich, UK, May 28-29, 2022. (Best Celluloid; Most Original Concept, “Un-Tidal”)
Experimental Short Film Program, Kabayitos Theater at the Clemente Center, NYC, May 21-22, 2022.
Frame & Frequency VIII, Rockville, MD, May 8-9, 2022.
"Microwave Coven presents,” an animation screening, AV Expressions, San Antonio, TX, April 2022.
The First Persian Independent Experimental Short Film Festival, March 2022.
”VLM’s VIDEO ART Social, the Line Hotel, Big Medium, and Hyperreal Film Club, Austin, TX, February, 2022.
TOGETHER IS BETTER, Stove Works Art Gallery, Chattanooga, TN, Dec 2021-Jan, 2022.
Made in Contact, Multi-platform exhibition, online, 2021.
Semi-Finalist at BLOW-UP: International Arthouse Filmfest, Chicago, 2021. (“The Imaginary Kaleidoscope”)
Uniforms for the End of Times IV, ChaShaMa Gallery, NYC, 2021.
Winner: Burnt Experimental Video Art and Film Fest, Montreal, Canada, 2021. (Audience Choice Award, “Her Type”)
BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, 2021.
Tune in to Green, Diorama Room Arts, November 2021.
Animalis Fabula Film Festival, online, 2021.
The We Make Movies International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 2021.
Architecture of the Elsewhere, Gallery Perchée, May-August 2021.
The 18th Annual Iowa City International Film Festival (ICDOCS 2021), Iowa City, IA, 2021.
Sexy Sex, Gallery Perchée, February-March 2021.
BLOW-UP Chicago International Art-house Film Festival, Chicago, IL, 2020
Transient Visions: The Moving Image Festival, Johnson City, NY, 2020.
Barcelona International Short Film and Video Festival, Spain, 2020.
The We Make Movies International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 2020.
Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, CO, 2020.
London Experimental Anti-Festival, 2020.
The 17th Annual Iowa City International Film Festival (ICDOCS 2020), Iowa City, IA, 2020.
C for Courtside Video Screening, Knoxville, TN, 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19 Pandemic).
CODEC Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental Y Video, México, 2019.
Yoni Fest 2019, Los Angeles, CA, 2019.
tactileBOSCH “Out of Line” Screening at LLAWN Festival, Llandudno, Wales, 2019.
Transient Visions: The Moving Image Festival, Johnson City, NY, 2019.
San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA. 2019.
Streams and Channels at the Peekskill Film Festival, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, 2019.
Saigon Experimental Film Festival, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2019.
Braziers Mini Indi Film Festival, Oxfordshire, UK, 2019.
New Media Showcase at College Art Association Annual Conference, NYC, 2019.
Selects, Curated by Elysia Mann,” Locate Arts, www.locatearts.org, 2019.
“Feature: Chekhov’s Masha’s Masha,” The Woven Press Tale; www.thewoventalepress.net, 2019.
August Screening Series, Creative Space for Lease, Los Angeles, CA , 2018.
In Time, The Association for Study of Arts in the Present (ASAP) 10, New Orleans, LA, 2018.
FemBot: Videos About Technology, Made By Women and Non-Binary Artists, The Hand, Brooklyn, NY, 2018.
Off Days: Screening Series, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.
Data Spell, The Border Space Project at 56 Bogard Salon, Brooklyn, NY, 2018.
video NOW NOW NOW, Moving Image Archives, Bloomington, IN, 2018.
Gift, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA, 2018.
Blank Plots: Screening, and Performance Event, Black Ball Projects, Paoli, IN, 2017.
Was Tun!?, Aspekte Galerie, Munich, Germany, 2017.
Lenin Lives, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson, NC, 2017.
Video Shorts: Screening, The Fuller Projects, Bloomington, IN, 2017.
Summer 2016 Series at NewFilmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, 2016.
Partners: Video Screening and Performance Night, Abrons Art Center, NYC, 2016.
Me Gusta el Sonido, ARTSPACE, New Haven, CT, 2016.
Partners, Abrons Art Center, NYC, 2016.
Holiday Shop; Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, 2016.
Video Snack V, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, 2015.
VIDEO MIXER, Greene Gallery at the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, 2015.
Story of a Story, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, 2015.
Vertical Reach: Political Protest and the Militant Aesthetic Now, ARTSPACE, New Haven, CT, 2015.
Making Space: Futures of Visual Anthropology Conference, Temple University Philadelphia, PA, 2014.
Framing Space/Narrating Place, Leeds College of Art, UK, 2012.
In Time, LaMama LaG alleria, New York, NY, 2012.
SELECTED INVITED TALKS + PANELS
Visiting Artist Talk, University of Virginia, Department of Art, Charlottesville, VA, March, 2024
“Shorts 11: Un-Tidal Transformations” Q+A with the Audience, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, Sept 13-17, 2023.
“Vector” group exhibition virtual artist talk, zoom, September 17, 2022.
“Documentary Program” Q+A with the Audience, Defy Film Festival, Nashville, TN, August 20, 2022.
Public Art Series (Part 2) Public Art Panel Discussion, Muncie Arts and Culture Council, Minnetrista, Muncie, IN, 2019.
“…usually outside and accessible to all”: On Public Markings in Three Acts, Public Lecture The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019.
Masha Vlasova: Artist Talk for Foundation Project Lecture Series, Cooper Union School of Art, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 2019.
Masha Vlasova: Miss/Translations, Visiting Artist Series, Lecture and Studio Visits University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 2017.
Lenin Lives Panel Discussion with Professor Roman Utkin and Lia Newman, Belk Visual Art Center, Davidson College, 2017.
WRITING
“Psychogeographical Choreography: Hand-held Filmmaking and Pedagogy,” Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Practice and Theory in Documentary-Based Filmmaking, (edited volume), Editor: Liz Baulch, Liz Burke, Catherine Gough-Brady, Kim Munro, Christine Rogers. Intellect Books, 2023.
“Fluid Objects: On Impermanence of Monuments,” in collaboration with Moira O’Shea, New Words of Speculation Special Issue of ASAP Journal, John Hopkins University Press, 2021.
“The Animal Gaze: watching the Interior with my dog,” Docalouge, Online Journal, https://docalogue.com, December, 2020.
“Monuments and Other Things that Change: Several Attempts at Titling a Photograph” Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World (edited volume), Editor: Laura Macaluso; American Association for State and Local History/Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
“Interview with Chelsea A. Flower” Friend of the Artist, Vol. 9, Summer, Print/Online: https://www.friendoftheartist.com, 2019.
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Checkered Borders: Films of the Global South, Wofford College, 2021.
Beyond Indexicality, LocateArts, 2020.
Open Call for Friend of The Artist, Vol. 9, Juror, 2019.
Women Filmmakers at the Intersection of Documentary, Video Art, and Avant Garde: Screening and Visiting Filmmaker Series in collaboration with Media School at IUB, Creative Collaborations Screening and Guest Filmmaker Program, Indiana University Cinema, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2018.
video NOW NOW NOW: Screening and Discussion of contemporary video-art in collaboration with Sarah Lasley and Directed by Women, at Indiana University Cinema, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2018.
Monuments on Screen: Perspectives on Monumentality Around the Globe, in collaboration with Directed by Women at IU Cinema, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2018.
Co-Founder of Shared Space, joint curatorial project with Astri J. Snodgrass, Chattanooga, TN
Three-Legged Woman: Solo-show of New Drawing by Anna Wehrwein, Apothecary Gallery, Shared Space, Chattanooga, TN, 2017.
The Ragged Edge: Solo-show of New Work by Anne Herbert, Shared Space, Chattanooga, TN, 2017.
A Gathering of Small Works, Shared Space, Chattanooga, TN, 2016.
GRANTS + SCHOLARSHIPS
Wofford College Summer Research Grant, 2021.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Grant, Wofford College, 2021.
Cultural Affairs Grant, Wofford College, 2020.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation General Education Grant, Wofford College, 2020.
CIL Teaching Innovation Grant, Wofford College 2020, 2021, 2022.
Wofford College Summer Research Grant, 2020.
College Arts & Humanities Institute Conference Grant, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2018.
Yale School of Art, Full Tuition Scholarship, 2014.
Blueprint Fellowship, Council of Jewish Émigré Community Organization, 2014.
Film-Making grant, Association for Central Asian Civilizations & Silk Road Studies, 2013. (nominated and granted)
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Full Tuition Scholarship, New York, NY, 2008.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PANELS
Waterlands (screening and discussion), panel “Unstable Cinema: Standing in the Slippery,” The Association for Study of Arts in the Present (ASAP) 14, Seattle, WA, October 2023.
Fluid Objects, Round Table “New Worlds of Speculation,” The Association for Study of Arts in the Present (ASAP) 12, Online due to Covid-19 Pandemic, 2021.
Camera-Hand-Subject: on Hand-Held Filmmaking and Embodiment in Video Art, Organizer and Chair, “Being (T)Here: Presence and Embodiment in Video and Digital Art”, CAA’s Media Lounge, New Media Caucus at College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2020.
Masha Vlasova: Her Type, Sightlines: Screen Production and the Academy, RMIT University’s School of Media and Communication, Melbourne, Australia, 2019.
Monuments and Other Things that Change. Several Attempts at Titling a Photograph. A Film in the Works, Organizer and Chair, “Material Remnants: Interdisciplinary Explorations of the Kyrgyz Republic’s Monumental Heritage”, The Association for Study of Arts in the Present (ASAP) 11, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2019.
Frame Work, Organizer and Chair, “In Time”, The Association for Study of Arts in the Present (ASAP) 10, The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University and Pelican Bomb, New Orleans, LA, 2018.
All About (wanting to have sex with) My Mother: Documentary Evidence as Access to Taboo in Visual Art, “Art Documentaire: Challenges to politics and aesthetics” Visible Evidence XXV, International Conference on Documentary Film and Media, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2018.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Dots, Lines, Washes, Animating Ink,” Alla Gadassik, essay for the OIAF 2023 programme, 2023.
“The Immigrant Artist Biennial – In Dialogue,” Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Art Spiel, Oct 24, 2023, online.
“Water-bound Semiotics of Displacement and Refuge,” Xuezhu Jenny Wang, Cutbytes, Oct 23, 2023, online
Partamian, Chantal, “Rites and Othering,” Artist’s Response to Burn Film Festival’s THIRD EDITION Program 4/12, Burnt Film Festival, online, 2021.
Review: Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World (edited volume) by Alison Atkinson-Phillips for The Public Historian, the National Council on Public History, 2021.
“Masha Vlasova: Her Type”, Interview with The New Media Current, October 2020.
CODEC Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental Y Video Online Catalogue of Films, 2020.
The Makers “Masha Vlasova,” Yoni Fest Films, https://www.yonifestfilms.com/the-makers, 2019.
Review: “New Media Caucus Showcase: A Perspective on Consciousness within Digital Practices” by Debora Faccion
Media-N | The Journal of the New Media Caucus, Summer 2019, Volume 15, Issue 2, pages 20-26, 2019.
Fembot: Videos About Technology, Made by Women and Non-Binary Artists screening and exhibition catalog, text by Saki Sato, the Hand Gallery, 2018.
Lenin Lives, essays by Roman Utkin and Maria Silina; Artist texts by Lia Newman and Roman Utkin, with assistance from artists. Publications was produced in conjunction with Lenin Lives at Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson, NC, 2017.
The Focus, “Studio Visit with Masha Vlasova” by Brian Jobe, Locate Arts, www.locatearts.org, 2016.
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
Search Vs Re-Search: Recollections of Josef Albers at Yale, Director of Photography, Editor, and Assistant Producer, Produced by Anoka Faruqee, Yale School of Art, Yale University, 2016.
The Voice in the Drum by Richard K. Wolf: Book Trailer, Director and Editor, Produced by Richard K. Wolf, Harvard University, 2013.
SELECTED TEACHING
Assistant Professor of Film and Media Production, Oxford College at Emory University, 2022-current.
Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Department of Art and Art History, Wofford College 2019-2022.
Visiting Artist, Choate Summer Program: Documentary Film-making, Choate Rosemary Hall, 2019 (summer).
Lecturer and Lead Faculty, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas at Denton. 2018-2019.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Art, School of Art, Indiana University at Bloomington. 2017-2018.
Visiting Critic, School of Art, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, 2017 (spring).
Lecturer, Department of Art, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. 2016-2017.