Roman Mokrov is an artist and a photographer. He was born in 1986 in Elektrougli near Moscow.
He graduated from the Moscow State Regional University, 2010 (Master of Psychology), studied in Free Workshops School for Contemporary Art at MMOMA and Institute for Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2011.
In 2012 he was nominated for Innovation Contest of contemporary art with his work Endless Story and received Special prize, as well as Special mention by the jury of the international video art festival Now&After’12. He was nominated for Kandinsky Prize in “Young Artist Project of the Year” in 2012 and Kuryokhin Prize in 2013 and 2015 in category “Best Media Object”. His personal exhibitions include “Notmoscow” 2012 in Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, “Destiny of a Man” 2012 in Triumph Gallery, Moscow, “Protective Screens” in 2013 in Nina Due Gallery, Milan, “Pastorale” in 2013 in Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow, “Put a newborn fire in your palm ” in 2014 in Moscow Museum of Modern Art . He also took part in a few group exhibitions in the National Centre for Contemporary Art, the Central House of Artists, the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, the Central Exhibitional Hall Manege and the State Tretyakov Gallery.
He lives and works in Moscow and Elektrougli.
Recent exhibitions:
2014 “Great Expectation”, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow
2014 “Zetetic”, Viktoria gallery, Samara
2014 “Softcore”, Intelligentsia gallery, Beijing
2014 “Put a newborn fire in your palm ” (solo), Moscow Museum of Modern Art , Moscow
2014 “Upward”, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2013 “Pastorale” (solo), Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow
2013 “Mocumentary: Reality Is Not Enough”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art , Moscow
2013 “Protected Screens” (solo), Gallery Nina Due. Milan, Italy
2013 “Video Nights with Manege. Cycle # 1″. Central Exhibition Hall «Manege». Moscow
2013 Sergey Kyryokhin Prize Nominess Exhibition, Kyryokhin Centre of Contemporary Art, St.Peterburg
2013 “Earthly Love, Heavenly and Any”. PROEKT_FABRIKA. Moscow
2013 “Code of the Epoch” Festival. All-Russian Decorative Art Museum. Moscow
2013 “History”. National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA). Moscow
2013 “Echo-Eho”. VI Winter International Festival of Arts in Sochi. Sochi
2012 “A Walk About Moscow”, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
2012 “Destiny of a Man” (solo), Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2012 Exhibition of the Kandinsky Prize nominess, Udarnik, Moscow
2012 “FoRMA”, Festival of Russian Modern Art, The Bauman Garden, Moscow
2012 “Native/Foreign: Collective Awareness of boundaries”, PROEKT_FАБRIKА, Moscow
2012 “Rejected reality”, Artplay, Moscow
2012 “Counter illusions”, Cultural Center ZIL, Moscow
2012 “At the Open Air!”, Artplay, Moscow
2012 International Vido Art Festival “Now&After’12″, Moscow Museum of Modern Art , Moscow
2012 “NOTMOSCOW” (solo), Moscow Museum of Modern Art , Moscow
2012 Exhibition of nominess of the VII All-Russian Contemporary Art Prize, NCCA, Moscow
2012 “Photos of the background of the carpet” (solo), store Tsiolkovsky, Moscow
2011 “Landscape painted by Gaze”, Gallery 21, Moscow
2011 “Without Limitations”, as a part of Art and Reality Forum, St. Petersburg
2011 “A Piece of Practical Knowledge”, IV Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, GMG Gallery, Moscow
2011 “Today/Tomorrow”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2011 “Cartography of the Possible”, Central House of Artists, Moscow
2006 “Reflections” (solo), Museum and Exhibition Complex, Elektrougli
2006 “My Russia” (solo), City Administration Elektrougli
2006 “My Russia” (solo), Balashikha Museum of History and Local Lore, Balashikha
