bio:
Elena Volkova is a Ukrainian-born interdisciplinary artist and educator, whose creative practice uses historic and contemporary photographic techniques to explore complex themes of domesticity, liminality, and subjective experience. Volkova has been a fellow at Hamiltonian Artists, exhibited her work nationally and internationally, and received several recognitions and awards in support of her creative practice, including Janis Meyer Traveling Fellowship, Corcoran Women’s Committee Grant, MD State Arts Council Creativity Grant, Baltimore Municipal Art Society Travel Prize, and Rubys Grant. Volkova has been a social practice resident artist at Maryland Center for History and Culture, Anacostia Arts Center, and Maker General among others, and her work is included in various private and public collections, including Baltimore Museum of Art and MDHC. Volkova resides in Baltimore, MD and teaches Photography at Stevenson University.