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Maya Golyshkina

b. 2002, RU
Lives and works in London, England, GB
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Golyshkina found her artistic voice amid the confinement of 2020’s lockdowns. During this time, her room became a stage for her fantastical and dissonant photographic self-portraits in which she embodied anthropomorphic renditions of various everyday objects (a tube of toothpaste, a fried egg, an ear).

Central to Golyshkina’s practice is her body, a tool she employs to provoke the viewer while simultaneously exposing her vulnerability. Following a lineage of artists such as Claude Cahun, Cindy Sherman and Gillian Wearing, Golyshkina challenges stereotypes, particularly those promoted by social media in an increasingly image-obsessed world.

Golyshkina’s work is deliberately imperfect: Her costumes are hand-made from cheap materials with crudely-applied paint and her photographs bear visible traces of digital manipulation. By embracing the rough edges that are typically excluded from sanitised public personas, she confronts the superficiality of social media and the excesses of modern…

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Nov 08, 2025 — Jan 12, 2026
Harkawik88 Walker St, New York, NY 10013, USA
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Sep 05, 2025 — Nov 15, 2025
Galerie Nicola von SengerLimmatstrasse 275, 8005 Zürich, Schweiz
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Feb 24, 2023 — Apr 29, 2023
Galerie Nicola von SengerLimmatstrasse 275, 8005 Zürich, Schweiz
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Portrait of Maya Golyshkina
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ARTIST

Maya Golyshkina

b. 2002, RU
Lives and works in London, England, GB
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Biography

Golyshkina found her artistic voice amid the confinement of 2020’s lockdowns. During this time, her room became a stage for her fantastical and dissonant photographic self-portraits in which she embodied anthropomorphic renditions of various everyday objects (a tube of toothpaste, a fried egg, an ear).

Central to Golyshkina’s practice is her body, a tool she employs to provoke the viewer while simultaneously exposing her vulnerability. Following a lineage of artists such as Claude Cahun, Cindy Sherman and Gillian Wearing, Golyshkina challenges stereotypes, particularly those promoted by social media in an increasingly image-obsessed world.

Golyshkina’s work is deliberately imperfect: Her costumes are hand-made from cheap materials with crudely-applied paint and her photographs bear visible traces of digital manipulation. By embracing the rough edges that are typically excluded from sanitised public personas, she confronts the superficiality of social media and the excesses of modern…

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View exhibition
Nov 08, 2025 — Jan 12, 2026
Harkawik88 Walker St, New York, NY 10013, USA
View exhibition
Sep 05, 2025 — Nov 15, 2025
Galerie Nicola von SengerLimmatstrasse 275, 8005 Zürich, Schweiz
View exhibition
Feb 24, 2023 — Apr 29, 2023
Galerie Nicola von SengerLimmatstrasse 275, 8005 Zürich, Schweiz
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