Artist's statement
I am a Los Angeles based artist. I work with 3d motion graphics, video. My works are inspired by the relationship between the global human body and the body of nature in the future, new forms of life, chimeras, boundless bodies, and interpretations of Love.
CV
Tripura (Maria Agureeva) was born in 1985 in Ukraine. Graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Design (Department of Graphic Design, 2003 - 2009), ICA ( Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow) (2014-2015) . Tripura (Maria Agureeva) is a winner of the grant from Ruinart Art Patronat (2019) and TRUST FOR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING (2018), a nominee of the Kandinsky Prize (2013).
The artist works with installations, videos, performances. Tripura lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education
The St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Design (Department of Graphic Design, 2003 — 2009)
ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow) (2014-2015)

Awards and Residences

2023 Loop Art Critique program, Metaverse
2021 Residence Via Farini (from December to January), Milan
2019 Ruinart Art Patronat
2018 Residence 18th street arts centre Los Angeles (from August to September)
2018 Grant from TRUST FOR MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
2018 Winner of the Laguna Art Prize (special prize)
2017 Residence Unlimited New York (from February to April)
2013 Nominee of the Kandinsky Prize

Art fairs
2023
Mesh art fair, Decentraland (July)
2022
Cadaf Digital Art Fair, New York
Public spaces
2023
Opus Tower by Zaha Hadid, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2022
Digital billboard, Tokyo, Japan
A video projection on a building (curator: Studio as we are), Nuremberg, Germany


Personal exhibitions
2023
Echo (An audiovisual installation with Jacopo Gino), Ipercubo gallery, Milan, Italy
Natural Symbiosis, Plexus Projects, New York

2019
Passing, Cosmoscow, Ruinart art patronat, Moscow

Dust, Coaxial Arts Foundation, Los Angeles

2018
It will always be not enough, Isabelle Lesmeister gallery, Regensburg

The dust of Pearl will settle down on soft skin covering all the cracks, Atrium gallery, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles

It's possible to imagine what will remain after, Anna Nova Gallery, Saint-Petesburg

Dust, Electrozavod gallery, Moscow

2015
Binary promises, Parallel program of the 6-th Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Pechersky Gallery, Moscow

2014
Gardens of compromises, Museum Erarta, Saint-Petersburg

2013
Those Females Who Can Wreck the Infinite, Parallel program of the 5-th Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Pechersky Gallery, Moscow

2012
Citius, altius, fortius! Commodification, Project Fabrika together with GridchinHall, Moscow

Excavations. Ground 0, GridchinHall, Moscow

Selective group exhibitions
2023
The present is everything. Lynn University NFT museum. Boca Raton. The United States.
Out of sight. Into mind. Future Factory. Los Angeles. The United States.
Digital and Mystical: Art and Identity in the Metaverse, Loop Art Critique Salon, Metaverse
Life in virtuality, Spirit Realm, Metaverse
New Year, Project 22 for Art in space, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2022
Meta masquerade, Quantum. Los Angeles
LA locals only. Superchief gallery NFT. Los Angeles
Superchief selects VOL.1 collection. Superchief gallery NFT. Los Angeles
Women of the World. Nowhere gallery. New York
Digital Art Month Paris (June-July). Paris, France
Art for the Future. Online program of the International Multimedia Biennale. Multimedia Art Museum.
Moscow, Russia.
Kammerflimmern. Outdoor screening organized by ArtSect NFT Gallery х Digi-gxl. Nuremberg, Germany.

2021
Women Artists. One and The Other, Gilyarovsky center (ArtsWanted), Moscow

2020
No matter. What?, Leer-Emptyblank, Vienna

Personal contacts, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles

Where's the Remote?, SIT STILL PROJECTS, Connecticut

Mobius Loop, A-S-T-R-A gallery, Spring break art show NY, New York

Technosphere, Supercollider Gallery x Femmebit, Spring break art show LA, Los Angeles

2019
MMOMA 99/19, 20th anniversary exhibition, MMOMA, Moscow

Recycle or die, Gum Red line, Moscow

The Regenerates, The Nook gallery, Los Angeles

2017
Just cause, Black Ball Projects, New York

2016
Unofficial laguage, WINZAVOD Contemporary Art Center, Parallel program of the V Moscow International Biennale For Young Art, Moscow

All eyes on me, WINZAVOD Contemporary Art Center, Moscow

Nominibus Trivialibus, Sinonimis Selectis, Moscow State University's Botanic Garden (the "Apothecary Garden"), Parallel program of the V Moscow International Biennale For Young Art, Moscow

2015
Mirrors, MMOMA, Moscow

One within the other. Art of new and old media in the age of high-speed internet, MMOMA, Moscow

Developing of freedom, Project Fabrika, Moscow

2013
I would have not been painting now, Parallel program of the 5-th Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Agency Art.Ru, Moscow

State order, WINZAVOD Contemporary Art Center, Moscow

2012
Project Cena (Price), Parallel program of the III Moscow International Biennale For Young Art, Agency Art.Ru, Moscow

2010
Contemporary art festival Psikhonavtika, Saint-Petersburg

Resume, All Gallery, Saint-Petersburg

Festivals
2015
The Mirror, International film festival Andrey Tarkovsky, Ivanovo

Forma, Contemporary art festival, Moscow

Can, Contemporary art festival, Krasnodar