Nick Tarasov (b. 1991) is a contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, photography, graphic design, and textual research. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, which provided him with a technical foundation; yet his independent practice quickly moved beyond the academic framework toward an experimental engagement with material and process. Since 2024, Nick has been living and working in St. Petersburg once again.
Working across media, Nick treats artistic form as a site of inquiry into perception, memory, and temporality, seeking not fixed solutions but open-ended processes. His works unfold as layered experiences, where gestures, objects, and texts intersect in nonlinear configurations. His practice transforms space, time, and presence into active components of the work itself.
In 2025, he published a series of monographs — Lozhok, [THREAT], and With (out). In 2019, he was a finalist for the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie. His photographs and paintings have been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Museum of the Academy of Arts, Blank Wall Gallery, First Watercolor Gallery, 5&J Gallery, and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, as well as at events including Jakarta International Photo Festival, Reclaim Photography Festival, and Trieste Photo Days. His work has been featured in the books Immigration (RoHo Press, 2017) and Open Boundaries (LoosenArt), and in magazines such as Ruum, Propeller, Shoot Film UK, Analog Forever, Lenscratch, Don’t Take Pictures, and Prada Journal. His works are held in private collections in Russia, the USA, Canada, the UK, China, and Serbia.
