Viktoria Sorochinski is a Ukrainian-born Canadian artist-photographer with a multicultural background, currently working and living in Berlin-Germany. Sorochinski received her Masters of Fine Arts from New York University (NYU) in 2008. Since then, she has had nearly 70 exhibitions in 21 countries throughout Europe, North and South America and Asia. Her work is published and reviewed in over 70 international publications including her monograph “Anna & Eve” published in Germany by Peperoni Books in 2013. She is also a winner and finalist of numerous international competitions, fellowships and awards including, Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, Leica Oskar Barnack Award, LensCulture Exposure Award, Critics Choice Award, Lucie Award (Discovery of the Year), Felix Scholler Award, Grand Prix Fotofestiwal Lodz, Magenta Flash Forward, PDN Photo Annual, Voies Off Arles Award, Photo London / La Fabrica Book Dummy Award, Meitar Award, Encontros da Emagem Prize, J. M. Cameron Award, Visible White Photo Prize, Descubrimientos PHE, BluePrint Fellowship, and Canada Council for the Arts Grant, among many others. In addition to Sorochinski’s pursuit of artistic career she is also giving lectures, workshops and talks in various institutions worldwide, as well as private mentoring and consulting.
Sorochinski is an author of multiple long-term projects dwelling between documentary and fiction testing the boundaries of Real vs. Fantasy. She is investigating subjects of intimacy, family dynamics, traditions, culture and mythology, often incorporating elements of narrative, performance and installation.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2021 - Brother& Sister, ArtEast Gallery, Berlin
2021 - Poltava Neverland, Contemporary Art Center – JUMP, Poltava, Ukraine
2019 - Tales & Realities: Journey into the Unknown, ApArt11 Gallery/Mandarin Maison, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 - Lands of No-Return, FOTOGRAFICA BOGOTA Bogota, Colombia
2019 - Anna & Eve, P.A.N.D.A Theater Berlin, Germany
2018 - Body in Presence (featuring Silent Dialogs series) as the central exhibition of the Month of Photography in Grenoble, France
2018 - Brother & Sister, Eugenio Virla Cultural Centre, part of Encuentros Abiertos - Festival de La Luz, Tucumán, Argentina
2018 - Lands of No-Return, Palazzo Leone Da Perego, part of AFI – European Festival of Photography, Legnano, Italy
2017 - Anna & Eve, Wacoal Gallery, part of KG+ KYOTOGRAPHY Festival, Kyoto, Japan
2016 - Anna & Eve, JUMP Gallery, Poltava, Ukraine
2016 - Anna & Eve, Projektraum - FotoWerkBerlin, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin Germany
2015 - Anna & Eve, Fotografica Bogota, National Museum of Photography, Bogota, Colombia
2014 - Silent Dialogs, Lianzhu Photo Festival, Lianzhu, China
2014 - Anna & Eve, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Encuentros Abiertos Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 - Anna & Eve, Museo da Imagem, Encontros da Emagem Festival, Braga, Portugal “Silent Dialogs”, F-AIR Gallery, Florence, Italy
2013 - Daddy, Gallery of Argentinian School of Photography, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 - The Wonder House of Anna & Eve, Fotografia Europea Festival, Regio Emilia, Italy
2013 - Anna & Eve, YA-Gallery, part of “Vizii” Photo/Multimedia Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
2013 - Anna & Eve Book Launch and exhibition, 25 Books, Berlin
2012 - Anna & Eve, Stimultania Center of Photography, Strasbourg, France
2012 - Daddy, National Museum of Fine Arts, Encuentros Abiertos Festival, Neuquen, Argentina
2012 - Anna & Eve, MAMM - Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2012 - Anna & Eve, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
2012 - Anna & Eve, FNAC galleries, (Touring in Italy: Milan,Turin, Verona, Geneva, Florence, Nepal)
2010 - Taking Over of Reality by Fiction (Anna & Eve), Espace Dupon, (Mois de la Photo), Paris, France
2008 - The Space Between, 80 W.S. East Galllery, New York City
2008 - Behind The Curtain, Rosenberg Gallery, New York City