Winner of Sergey Kurekhin Prize in the nomination “For the Best Work of Visual Art” 2015
Shortlist of the Innovation Award 2021
Finalist of the Kandinsky Prize 2012, nominee – 2014, 2017, 2021
Nominee of the Nord Art Award 2021, Germany
Nominee of the Moscow Art Prize 2020
Curator’s Choice at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts annual summer auction 2016, Boston, MA, USA 2016
Included in the Top 100 recognized artists of Russia according to InArt.
Included in the Russian investment art rating 49ART, representing outstanding contemporary artists under the age of 50 years
The works of Maria Safronova are in the collections of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow, Russia), the Novosibirsk State Art Museum (Novosibirsk, Russia), the Museum Center “Ploshchad Mira” (Krasnoyarsk, Russia), the Russian Art Center (Kaliningrad, Russia), Sberbank, Gazprom, the Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation (Moscow, Russia), the Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg, Russia), the National Art Gallery (Kazan, Tatarstan), the Women and Children’s Museum (Beijing, China), as well as in various private collections in Russia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, the USA, Italy and Estonia.
Personal exhibition:
2025 – “The Apiarian Zone” Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum , Nizhny Novgorod
2024 – ” The Apiarian Zone” Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2020 – “What If?” Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2018 – “Experimental Field” Gallery 21, Winzavod, Moscow
2017 – “Solar Wind” VLADEY, Winzavod, Moscow
2017 – “Past and Present” House of Culture, Rzhev
2016 – “The Common Private” MMOMA, Moscow
2015 – “Game of General View” Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2015 – “Subtitles” Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, parallel program of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2013 – “Routine” MMOMA, Moscow
2011 – “Habitat” Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg
Selected Exhibitions:
2026–”Signs of the Times,” FineArt Gallery, Moscow
2026 – “Russian Metamodernists,” Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum, Nizhny Novgorod
2026 – “Russian Metamodernists,” Krasnodar Regional Art Museum, Krasnodar
2026 – “He throws into the air, and catches twelve balls at once,” School No. 1529 named after Griboyedov, Moscow
2025 – “Non-Dark Ages: Tales of the Middle Ages and Academisms,” GES-2, Moscow
2025 – “Postcards from Artists,” Pogodina Gallery, Moscow
2025 – “Man-Life-Universe. The Contrast of Comparisons,” St. Petersburg Museum of Art of the 20th-21st Centuries, St. Petersburg
2025 – “Childhood. Dreams,” State Tretyakov Gallery, Samara
2025 – Moscow Art Prize Nominees Exhibition, Zaryadye Park, Moscow
2025 – “Picturesque Russia,” Moscow House of Artists, Moscow
2025 – “Russian Horror,” K35 Gallery, Moscow
2025 – “Rest,” Pogodina Gallery, Nikolina Gora
2025 – “This is the Best We Have. The Art Newspaper Russia’s Choice,” Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow
2025 – “Portal,” Center for Contemporary Art No. 9, Moscow
2025 – “Serpentine,” InGallery, Moscow
2024 – “News,” Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2024 – “Football/Hockey,” Vladey, Moscow
2024 – “When the Trees Were Big,” Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) and CCA 9, Moscow
2024 – “Travel Diaries,” CSC Steppe, Rostov-on-Don
2024 – “Three Chapters from a Woman’s Life,” Artstory Gallery, Moscow
2024 – “Plans for Summer,” Kovcheg Gallery, Moscow
2023–2024 – “All Sorts of Tales”,National Art Gallery “Khazine” , Kazan; Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg; Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia; V.I. Surikov Krasnoyarsk Art Museum, Krasnoyarsk; Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum, Exhibition Hall “The Pakgauzy” ; Center for Contemporary Culture “Stankozavod,” Samara
2020 – “What if?” Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2018 – “Experimental field” Gallery 21, Winzavod, Moscow
2017 – “Tour of Duty” VLADEY, Winzavod, Moscow
2017 – “Past & Present” HausOf Culture, Rzew
2016 – “Total Pivate“ MMOMA, Moscow
2015 – “The Game of General View” Triumph Gallery,Moscow
2015 – “SUBTITRES” Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, parallel program of the
6th Moscow Biennale of Modern Art, Moscow
2013 – “Daily Routine”, MMOMA, Moscow
2011 – “Habitat, Museum Erarta, Sankt- Peterburg
Selected exhibition:
2022-“Named Vasari. Revival” Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod
2022 – “The Great Void” RuArts Foundation, Moscow
2022- “Conduit and Schwambrania.The place where the earth is rounded” House of Creativity Peredelkino, Moscow
2022- “At your fingertips” In-Art Gallery, Vinzavod, Moscow
2022- “Apok” Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2021 – “The Cosmos is ours!” Artstory Gallery
2021- “New beautiful exhibition” Zaryadye Park, Moscow
2021 – “Kandinsky Prize” MMOMA, Moscow
2021 – “Innovation Award” Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod
2021- “Nord Art” Budelsdorf, Germany
2021- “Architects of the Towers of Babel” ICC,Kaluga
2021- “Social Realism. Metamorphoses” State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2021- “Emergency” Art Gallery, Tambov
2021- “Break of 15 minutes” Arsenal, N.Novgorod
2021 – “The shadow of the soul, but slightly pointed” MMAM, Moscow
2020 – “Museum of Self-isolation” Museum of Moscow
2020 – “Break of 15 minutes” All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts, Moscow
2020 – “Moscow Art Award” Zaryadye Park, Moscow
2020- “State of Emergency” Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2019- 5th Ural Biennale of Contemporary Art UOMZ, Yekaterinburg
2019-“Back to the universal energy flow” InArt Gallery, Vinzavod, Moscow
2019-“Art Collaboration” Biennale of Contemporary Art, Syktyvkar
2019-“ArtVilnyus”, Congress Center, Vilnius
2018 – “R_E_Volution” Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
2018 – “Russia. Realism. XXI century » Russian Museum, State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan
2018 – Second Novosibirsk International Triennial of Graphics, Novosibirsk Art Museum, Novosibirsk
2018 – “The Noise of Time” -National Gallery of Komi, Syktyvkar
2018 – “18 +/- voluntary self – discipline” Museum of Moscow
2018 – “At the edges“ VDNH, Pavilion «Optics» Moscow
2018 – “Disciplinary spaces” Museum Erarta, Sankt- Peterburg
2018 – “Сarefully Kids!” The Museum of St. Petersburg Art (20th–21st centuries) , Sankt- Peterburg
2018 – “Perfect age” Special project «Focus» of the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, MOMMA, Moscow
2017 – “Breugel. Inverted world” Artplay, Moscow “The satellite over Monchegorsk”MOMMA,
The Center of Culture, Monchegorsk
2016 – Curator’s Choice” Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, U,S.A.,)
2016 – “Look at this world” The Museum of Chinese Women and Children,Beijing, China
2016 – “19/92 From the Beginning”, MMOMA, Moscow, Sergey Kurekhin Prize (2015)
Sergey Kurekhin Center for Modern Art, St. Petersburg
2015 – “New Narrators in Russian Art of the 20th – 21st century”, Russian State Museum (St. Petersburg)
2014 – “Don’t you know who I am?”, M NKA Museum van HedendaagseKunst ,Antwerp, Belgium
2014 – “Exhibition of the Nominees for Kandinsky Prize”, “Udarnik” cinema house Moscow
2013 – “The Study of Researches”, MMOMA Moscow
2012 – “The Rejected Reality” Artplay, parallel project of the 3rd Biennale of Young Art Moscow
2012 – “Unfinished Analysis”, strategic project of the 3rd Biennale of Young Art Moscow
2012 – “The Rejected Reality” Artplay parallel project 3rd Youth Biennale Moscow
2012 – “Inconclusive analysis” strategic project – third of the Youth Biennale Moscow
2012 – “Friend or foe” Project Factory, a parallel project 3rd Youth Biennale Moscow
2012 – “Student Art Promt” Artplay Moscow
2012 – “Today / Tomorrow” MMoMA , Moscow
2011 – “Mapping the possible” Central House of Artists Moscow
2011 – “Impossible Community” MMoMA Moscow
2010 – “On the contrary ” Winzavod,Moscow Moscow