Pointe Mall, Orlando, 2020. From Floridas.
Anastasia Samoylova is an American artist whose work moves across photography, painting, and installation. Working between observational imagery and studio-based intervention, she has established a singular practice that examines how contemporary life is shaped, mediated, and mythologized through images. Her work engages the entanglement of environmental crisis, consumer spectacle, and political imagination, revealing the tensions between surface and structure, seduction and instability, reality and representation.
Since relocating to Miami, Samoylova has developed an immersive approach to place, treating the landscape as both lived environment and image field. Her first monograph, FloodZone, brought her wide recognition for its incisive portrayal of climate vulnerability and visual spectacle in South Florida. Floridas expanded this inquiry into a layered portrait of the state as a theater of fantasy, contradiction, and power. With Image Cities, she turned to the global metropolis, tracing the effects of media saturation, advertising, and visual excess on urban space. Her recent project Atlantic Coast retraces and reimagines Berenice Abbott’s Route 1 journey in reverse, from Florida to Maine, reflecting on the American road as both a physical passage and a cultural fiction.
Samoylova’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; the Saatchi Gallery, London; C/O Berlin; Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid and Barcelona; the Nasher Museum of Art; George Eastman Museum; the Chrysler Museum of Art; V&A Dundee; Amerika Haus Munich; and Kunst Haus Wien, among others.
Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, among others.
Her published monographs include Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025), Adaptation (Thames & Hudson, 2024), Image Cities (Fundación MAPFRE, 2023), Floridas (Steidl, 2022), and FloodZone (Steidl, 2019).