Irina Rozovsky (b. 1981, Moscow) makes photographs of people and places, transforming external landscapes into interior states. She lives in Athens, Georgia, USA where she and her husband Mark Steinmetz run the photography workshop space The Humid.
Contact: irina.rozovsky@gmail.com // Instagram: @yabliko
COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York // The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York // The Museum of the City of New York, New York // The High Museum of Art, Atlanta // Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia // Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond // Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee // Light Work Collection, Syracuse // private collections
GALERIES
CPM, Baltimore // Box Galerie, Brussels
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs: In Plain Air, MACK, 2021 // Island in my Mind, Verlag Kettler, 2015 // One to Nothing, Kehrer Verlag, 2011
Artist books: Insieme, Chose Commune, 2023 // Continuum, Yoffy Press, 2019 // A Rock that Floats, Roman Nvmerals, 2017
Group books: A Long Arc: Photography and the American South, Aperture, 2023 // A New Nothing, edited by John Pilson, 2021 // Photo No-No’s, edited by Jason Fulford, Aperture, 2021 // Issue 206: Chris Killip, Hotshoe, 2021 // Dark Mirrors, MACK, 2021 // OUTS, Skylark Editions, 2021 // Heavy II, 2016
FEATURES, COMMISSIONS, and PRESS (select)
AnOther Magazine // Aperture Magazine I & II // Artforum // The Atlantic // Brownstoner // Collector Daily I & II // Creative Review // Daylight // De Standaard // FotoRoom // Fubiz // The Guardian I & II // GQ // Harper’s Magazine // Ignant // Il Fotografo // It’s Nice That // Juxtapoz I & II // LensCulture // MOMA Magazine // Musee Magazine I & II // The New York Times I & II & III // The New York Review of Books // The New Yorker I & II & III // Panorama // Pitchfork // Rocket Science Magazine // Tablet // TIME // VICE I & II // Washington Post // WePresent // Zeit Magazin
RECORDED ARTIST TALKS and PODCAST INTERVIEWS
Aperture Conversations: Subverting Expectations, Photographing the American South, 2023 // Aperture Conversations: Irina Rozovsky, 2021 // Nearest Truth, Episode 155, 2021 // Irina Rozovsky on Miracle Center, MoMA’s Coursera Seeing Through Photographs, 2020 // Real Photo Show Podcast, Episode 17, 2021 // A Small Voice Podcast, Episode 108, 2019 // Irina Rozovsky: i3 Lecture, SVA 2015 // Irina Rozovsky, Photo Book Works, Visual Studies Workshop, 2012
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Turn the Sun, Tureen, Dallas, TX (solo show) // A Long Arc, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA & Addison Gallery, Andover, MA
2023 Insieme, Museo Casa Giorgione, Castelfranco, Italy // New York Now: Home, Museum of the City of New York, NY // A Long Arc, High Museum, Atlanta, GA
2022 Traditions Highway, CPM, Baltimore, MD (solo show) // de l’amour, box galerie, Brussels, Belgium // Theater of Dreams, Breda International Photography Festival, Breda, The Netherlands
2021 Irina Rozovsky: Brooklyn, Mark Steinmetz: Berlin, Box Galerie, Brussels, Belgium // Mother! Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany // Natura: Irina Rozovsky and Mark Steinmetz, Villa Bolasco, Castelfranco, Italy // Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection, High Museum, Atlanta, GA // Mother! Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark // Muscle Definition, CPM, Baltimore, MD
2020 Companion Pieces: New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2019 To See Your Face, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR // CA Sunday Magazine: At Home In the American West, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2018 Island in my Mind, Silvereye, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA // Care and Feeding, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2017 Talking Pictures, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY // Shadows are cast, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney, Australia
2016 Photography II, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY // Exalted Positions, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY