Anastasia Samoylova

Anastasia Samoylova is an American artist (b. 1984, Russia) who alternates between observational photography and studio practice. Her recent solo exhibition Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans was on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 14, 2024, to May 11, 2025. A major survey of her work was presented at the Saatchi Gallery, London, from November 2024 through January 2025.

After relocating to Miami in 2016, Samoylova began developing an immersive, observational approach to photography. This led to her first monograph, FloodZone, a study of how environmental vulnerability is visualized in flood-prone communities. Her Floridas project continued this inquiry with a kaleidoscopic, often contradictory portrait of the state’s layered cultural and political identity. In Image Cities (2023), she turned outward to global metropolises, exploring the impact of media saturation on the urban landscape.

Her forthcoming project, Atlantic Coast, debuts in Fall 2025 at the Norton Museum of Art and is accompanied by a new monograph from Aperture. Retracing and expanding upon Berenice Abbott’s historic Route 1 series, Atlantic Coast asks what it means to be American today—probing the myths of freedom, movement, and belonging embedded in the idea of the open road.

Samoylova’s recent exhibitions include the Nasher Museum of Art; C/O Berlin; V&A Dundee; Fundación MAPFRE Madrid and Barcelona; Amerika Haus Munich; George Eastman Museum; Chrysler Museum of Art; and Kunst Haus Wien.

Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Perez Art Museum, Miami; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, among others. Published monographs include FloodZone (Steidl, 2019), Floridas (Steidl, 2022), Image Cities (Fundación MAPFRE/Hatje Cantz, 2023), and Adaptation (Thames & Hudson, 2024).