Albert Soldatov was born in 1980 in Moscow. In 2002 he graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, as a graphic artist. From 2010 to 2014 he studied at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia in the “new media” studio. Laureate of the Kandinsky Prize in 2014 in the nomination “Young Artist. Project of the Year”, he works mainly in video. He has had several solo projects and has participated in numerous group ones. Among them are the video programme CITIZENFIVE, Art Athina (2017, Athens), the Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art in the Garage Museum (2017, Moscow), the 9th Andrei Tarkovsky International Film Festival “Zerkalo” (2015), “Great Hopes” (2014, “Manezh” Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow), the special projects of Biennales and others. His works are in the collection of the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, and in private collections. Soldatov lives and works in Moscow.