Siarhei Hudzilin (Сяргей Гудзілін - bel.)

Born in 1987 in Belarus. Photographer, digital and media artist. Having started with sports shots, he collaborated with Belarusian and International media for several years. His greatest passion is recording everyday life of individual communities with synthetic media technology and science art practices. 

EDUCATION

2021 - 2022 – “Belarusian thinking: European and Belarusian philosophy”, Belarusian Collegium (Minsk, Belarus)
2013 – Belarus Press Photo Workshop “Working on Personal Projects”. Yury Kozyrev/NOOR, Andrei Polikanov/Russian Reporter, Tatyana Plotnikova/Russian Reporter. (Minsk, Belarus)
2012 – Andrei Polikanov (Photo editor TIME) master-class “Photography in Magazines”. (Minsk, Belarus)
2011 – Sergey Maximishin master-class “The way to success. Photo stories. Work with news agencies” (Minsk, Belarus)
2006 - 2008 – Media and Communications, European Humanitarian University, EHU (Vilnius, Lithuania)

LECTURES / WORKSHOPS

2023 – “Digital activism”, Legalize Belarus School, (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2020 – “Photographer is over”, Cult.Centr Korpus Art Space (MInsk, Belarus)
2019 – "Storytelling and journalism. How to create and tell stories". Author's workshops for The Belarusian Association of Journalists (Minsk, Belarus)
2019 – “Visual stories that hooks”, The Belarusian Association of Journalists (Minsk, Belarus)
2018 – “Digital practices”, “Ў” Gallery of Contemporary Art (Minsk, Belarus)

AWARDS

2020 – Grand Prix of Digital Storytelling category, PRAFOTA
2017 – “Exhibition / Project of The Year”, Buro of Minsk Photography Month Award
2014 – PDN's 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch
2011 – Grand Prix, Belarus Press Photo contest
2011 – “Photographer of the Year”, The Institute of Journalism of the Belarusian State University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 – “Kandensat”, CECH Art Space (Minsk, Belarus), 04 - 26 Aug, Curator: Anna Karpenko, Antanina Stebur
2014 – “Along the Edge”, Orebro Book Fair (Orebro, Sweden), 02 - 07 Apr, Curator: Maria Soderberg
2012 – “Open”, Pirate Party of Russia (Moscow, Russia), 09 - 21 Sep, Curator: Alexander Kolesnikov 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 – “Re:Pere - post”, Rosa's House of Culture (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2019 – “Context 1.0”, National Center For Contemporary Arts (Minsk, Belarus)
2019 – Month of Photography in Minsk, “Ў” Gallery of Contemporary Art (Minsk, Belarus)
2019 – “The Beyonders. Other Histories of Belarusian Art”, “Ў” Gallery of Contemporary Art (Minsk, Belarus)
2018 – Armenia Art Fair, Expo Center (Yerevan, Armenia)
2018 – “Independence Day”, XO Gallery (Chongqing, China)
2017 – Film Festival Cottbus (Cottbus, Germany)
2017 – “Space Of Diffusion”, Georgian National Museum Tbilisi History Museum (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2017 – “Imena”, Cult.CentrKorpus Art Space (MInsk, Belarus)
2016 – “Deformation”, Suwon International Photo Festival (Suwon, South Korea)
2016 – Tbilisi Photo Festival 2016 (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2016 – “PRAFOTA. Young Belarusian Photography”, Gallery of Classic Photography (Moscow, Russia)
2015 – “By Now: Contemporary Photography From Belarus”, Ifa-Galerie Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)
2014 – “By Now: Contemporary Photography From Belarus”, Ifa-Galerie Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2014 – “Offside”, “Ў” Gallery of Contemporary Art (Minsk, Belarus)
2011 – Belarus Press Photo 2010, Loft Etagi (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

RESIDENCIES 

2019 – “Relative Humidity”, Art-ecological residence, August 2019 (Balduk, Belarus)

GRANTS / SCHOLARSHIPS

2022 – Nothilfestipendien 2022, The Goethe-Institut

CLIENTS / PUBLICATIONS

The New York Times (USA), Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland), Lenta.Ru (Russia), Nasha Niva (Belarus), Russian Reporter Magazine Online (Russia), Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden), Stern Online (Germany), National Geographic (USA), RBK (Russia), ELLE (Russia), Meduza (Russia), Forbes (Russia), Forbes (Latvia), The Village (Belarus)

Current Location: Minsk, Belarus

Email: hudzilin@gmail.com

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