Bio

Solo exhibitions:

Maybe an Island

Art-Village Vitland,

Kaliningrad, Russia, March 2018

'Julia Borissova – Artists’ Books Exhibition'

The Bower Ashton Library,

Centre for Fine Print Research,
UWE Bristol, UK

3rd July - 31st August 2017

RUNNING TO THE EDGE

Metenkov's House Museum

Yekaterinburg, Russia

2 May - 2 July, 2017

BEYOND THE SEEN

The Yard Gallery | Exeter School of Art, Exeter, United Kingdom

11 October - 12 November, 2016

DOM (Document Object Model)

International festival of photo art "The Baltic Photo Biennale", Kaliningrad, Russia

April - May, 2015

DOM (Document Object Model)

FotoDepartament Gallery

St.Petersburg

May - June, 2014

RUNNING TO THE EDGE

FotoDepartament Gallery

St.Petersburg

Nov - Dec, 2012

EQUILIBRIUM

Gallery “Black&White”

St.Petersburg

May - June, 2012

Open Ring

Gallery “Black&White”

St.Petersburg

June - July, 2011

IMPULS

Gallery “Black&White”

St.Petersburg

Oct - Nov, 2010

Group exhibitions and events:

2018

Ostlook Exhibition as part of the Satellites Show during the 7 Triennial of Photography Hamburg;

Unveil'd Prize in London;

Fotobookfestival/ Kassel Dummy Award

Dublin, PhotoIreland Festival, 01 – 31 May, Kassel, Fotobookfestival, 31 May – 03 June,

Hamburg, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, 07 – 17 June;

Madrid, IED – Istituto Europeo di Design, July

Rom, FotoLeggendo, 08 June – 15 July,

Zagreb, Organ Vida – International Photography Festival,10 – 16 September

Cologne, Internationale Photoszene Köln, 21 September – 14 October

Aarhus, Photobook Week Aarhus, 04 – 07 October

Nida, Photography Seminar, Lithuania, 02 – 09 September

Dresden, Zentralbibliothek im Kulturpalast Dresden, from 01 November

Tokyo (projected), The Tokyo Art Book Fair, Spring 2019

The exhibition "Poets as Publishers & Publishing as Artistic Practice", New York

2017

6 pt DESIGN CONFERENCE

National Art Gallery, Vilnius (LT)

25 November 2017

Photobook Fair 2017

Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK

Estonian Photographic Art Fair;

N.Y. Art Book Fair;

The exhibition "Personal Relapse. Photobook as representation of time",

National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow;

The exhibition "Books to play with", Book Art Museum - Fotofestiwal Lodz;

ViennaPhotoBookFestival;

Art Fair Suomi, Helsinki;

The exhibition New Spread in the PHOTOBOOKFEST in Moscow;

Riga Photomonth;

MIA Fair, Italy;

L.A. Art Book Fair;

Oxymoron Exhibition, Treviso, Italy;

The Second Triennial INFOCUS Exhibition of Photo Books Exhibition, December, 2016 - April , 2017

2016

ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM International Photography Festival - Discovery Award Exhibition;

Begira Photo Festival, Spain;

"Between the lines" curated by archipelago, Roz Barr Gallery, London;

“Ouvrage” - an artist books exhibition, Twenty14 contemporary gallery, Milan;

The International Photo Festival Scan Tarragona;

Gazebook: Sicily Photobook Festival - “When Photobooks make love with Multimedia”;

FotoFilmic Retrospective Exhibition, Visual Arts Center at Boise State University, ID;

The Exhibitions of art photography in the program of “Photoparade in Uglich” festival 2016;

Spanish National Library’s exhibition at PHotoEspaña ;

DUMMY BOOK exhibition as part of the Photobook Bristol;

Analogue NOW! - Festival for analogue Photography, Berlin;

'Irren ist menschlich' curated by Kaetha, Berlin;

On Landscape #3 at Lower Hewood Farm;

Contemporary photobooks exhibition, Museum of Photography, Ekaterinburg;

Slideluck Napoli and Vancouver;

“Boarding Pass: Russia”, Photobook Club Madrid;

The exhibition “Lithuanian Nocturne”, “Arka” gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2015

The Experiences of Brownian Movement, Lumiere brothers center for photography, Moscow;

THE BOOK’S SPACE at FOTOGRAFIA - Festival Internazionale di Roma in Museum of Contemporary Art;

The FotoFilmic Traveling Exhibition: New York at Sous Les Étoiles Gallery; Vancouver at the Burrard Arts Foundation; Space 22 downtown Seoul;

IX International Festival of Photography in Uglich, Russia;

International Photobook Festival, Kassel;

Belfast Photo Festival;

Athens Photo Festival;

On Landscape #2 at Matèria Gallery, Rome, Italy;

Palinsesti. “Modalità d'uso”, Italy;

2014

BITUME PHOTOFEST Lecce, Italy;

INFOCUS Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks. Phoenix Art Museum;

The exhibition of the Gold Medal Award Winners from the 2014 San Francisco International Photography Competition;

The Exhibition “Look into it”, Gallery Zamoskvorechye, Moscow;

The exhibition in the Queensland Centre for Photography, Australia;

2013

The Grand Prix Exhibition at the Salon de la Photo in Paris;

The Noorderlicht International Photofestival TWENTY
in Groningen, The Netherlands;

The International festival of photo art “The Baltic Photo Biennale. Photomania”;

»Photobook Dummy Award« , Kassel

The International visual culture festival "Vizii", Kyiv, Ukraine;

Sony World Photography Awards Winners' Exhibition at Somerset House, London;

2012

Еxhibition of photojournalism them. Efremov (Russia);

International Festival of Photography PHOTOVISA;

2011

Еxhibition of photojournalism them. Efremov (Tobolsk and Tyumen, Russia)

Julia Borissova was born in Tallinn, Estonia. She lives in St.Petersburg, Russia where she studied at the Academy of Photographic skills in 2009-2010. She graduated from Foundation of information and cultural projects "FotoDepartament", program "Photography as a research", 2011-2013. Participated in a Master class of: S. Maximishin (Russia), 2010; Nordic Photography Experience - Jan Grarup (Denmark, agency NOOR) class, 2011; Morten Andersen (Norway) class, 2011, 2012; Luuk Wilmering (Dutch) class, 2012; Anouk Kruithof (Dutch) class, 2013; Jaap Scheeren (Dutch) class, 2014; participated in a Workshop of the international photography magazine FOAM.

Her work has been exhibited in national and international solo and group shows.

Julia Borissova employs a greater variety of photographic techniques and styles. Her interest is in the conceptual side of the work. During the last years she focused her artistic expression through photo book projects.

Awards and fellowship:

Kassel Dummy Award 2018 - Fotobookfestival - shortlist

Facts and Clarifications Festival - shortlist, Riga Photomonth, 2017;

ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM Festival - Discovery Award, 2016;

Final winner of the Unveil'd Photobook Award 2015;

Final winner of the FotoFilmic’15 Competition;

Final winner of Belfast Photo Festival, 2015;

Gold Medal Award from the 2014 San Francisco International Photography Competition. California;

1st place in the 2013 International Fine Art Photography Competition in the Experimental category. Paris, France;

1st place in the competition “The Baltic Photo Biennale. Photomania” in the Fine Art category, Russia (2013);

Belfast Photo Festival, 2015; Athens Photo Festival, 2015; Bitume Photofest, Italy, 2014; the Noorderlicht International Photofestival 2013 TWENTY (the Netherlands).

Sony World Photography Awards 2013 - shortlist

Publications:

2018

PhotoWorld Magazine (China)

2017

Losthenfound

Dodho Magazine

Stern Crime Magazine

ShootFilm UK, interview, the issue "Home"

Ostlook magazine

Float Magazine

Elephant Magazine, interview