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Oleg’s art practice combines photography, video, and mixed-media projects, rooting from his decades-long work as a photojournalist. He investigate the intimacy of gazing through portraits of people and open land as visual landscapes and set up simple photographic conditions that challenge our sensual perceptions and reveal our complex attraction to the photographic image.

Born in 1983, in Leningrad, Russia Oleg graduated form Moscow State Pedagogical University in 2006 with a law degree. Later on he studied press photography at the Faculty of Press Photographers of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (2012). He continued his education at the Fotodepartament Institute of Saint-Petersburg, where most of his current interests were developed (2015). Oleg is currently in his third year of the MFA program at Stanford University. Oleg’s work was exhibited in Russia, Spain, Italy and US and published in magazines, like Amuse, InRussia, The Guardian, F-Stop, Calvert Journal, GEO, and The Village.


Contact Information:

+16502837609
o.savunov@gmail.com

olegsav@stanford.edu

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Oleg Savunov

Born in 1983, Leningrad, Russia

Currently lives and works in Palo Alto, CA


Education


2020
Stanford University, Master of Fine Art, Art Practice Candidate 2023, CA, US

2012
Saint Petersburg House of Journalists, Press photographer diploma, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2006 
Master in Law, Moscow Pedagogical State University, Moscow, Russia

Solo Exhibitions
2022
[de]constructed landscape, Uppermarket gallery, San Francisco, CA, US

Group Exhibitions
2022 
"Ultraviolent"  pop-up exhibition, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
Second Year MFA Exhibition, Coulter Gallery, Stanford, CA, US
2021
First Year MFA exhibition, Stanford Art Gallery, CA, US
2019 
"Blooming" international digital art festival, Pergola, Italy
"Presence" international contemporary photography festival, Berthold Center, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2018 
"Spacing" group exhibition, Quartariata art residency, Petergof, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2014 
"Institute.Production" group exhibition, Center of Contemporary Culture "Change", Kazan, Russia
"Red eye effect" group exhibition, Fotodepartament Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
"Young photography" group exhibition, Don State Public Library, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
2013
"On the block" group exhibition, New Holland exhibition space, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
"Young photography, Selected" group exhibition, Baltic Photography Biennial "Photomania", Kaliningrad, Russia
2012 
"Below The Surface, Young Photography" group exhibition, Mayakovsky Public Library, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Catalonian Institute of Photography (IEFC), First overseas group exhibition of St.Petersburg Faculty of Press Photographers, Barcelona, Spain


Residencies

2017 
HIAP Art Residency, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland

Competitions


2012
"4.10" project, shortlist "Viewbook Photostory 2012: Small Stories" competition

Publications

2021
"Ozersk" project, Calvert Journal magazine
2018
"Amendment 64" project, Inrussia Magazine
2017 
"Amendment 64" project, Amuse website by The Vice
"Failed Interference" project, Landscape Stories "Altered Landscape" Blog
"Phantasm Figure" project, F-Stop Magazine "Identity&Community" issue
Nepal landscape photographs, GEO Magazine
2015 
"Failed interference" project, New Landscape Photography Blog
"Inside the zone" series, The Guardian
2014 
"An island story" series, Calvert Journal
2013 
"On the Block" series, "The Village" magazine
2012 
"4.10" project, "PHOTO/arts Magazine, Self Contained"