Dimitri Venkov (b. 1980, Novosibirsk, Russia) lives and works in Moscow. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 2006 with a degree in the history of cinema. In 2012, he graduated from the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography, where he studied new media with Kirill Preobrazhensky. Group exhibitions include: Iteration: Contemporary Artists Respond to MMOMA Collection, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2016); Cannibal Manifesto: Mimesis as Resistance, Karst Foundation, Plymouth (2015); Burning News: Recent Art from Russia, Hayward Gallery, London (2014); Close and Far, Calvert 22, London (2014); 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2013); and Bergen Assembly, Bergen (2013). He has participated in film festivals in Oberhausen (2016), Thessaloniki (2016), Wiesbaden (2015), Moscow (2014, 2012), and Munich (2013). He has been awarded the Kandinsky Prize (Russia, 2012).