Arseny Zhilyaev

Arseny Zhilyaev was born in Voronezh. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Psychology of Voronezh State University and studied at the Institute of Contemporary Moscow (Moscow) and the Valand Academy of Art and Design (Gothenburg). In 2008, together with Nikolai Alekseev, Ivan Gorshkov, and Ilya Dolgov, he founded Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art. He took part in the 14th Lyon Biennial (2015), the 9th Liverpool Biennial (2016), the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), Manifesta 13 (Marseille, 2020), and the 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023). He is a recipient of the Innovation Prize in the nomination New Generation (2011).