Yana Tarakanova is a young Russian author. Born in 1995 in Zelenograd.
She studied at the Palace of Creativity on Columbus Square in Zelenograd and at the British Academy of Design. She also graduated from the law faculty of Moscow State University.
The artist works with augmented reality, and also creates a variety of 3D models for the POSSIBILITY of immersion in her work. Inspiration draws from everyday life.
In many works, Yana seeks to reveal the idea that artists light fire in people, passing it on to each other and notices some funny details, cases of synchrony in our lives, when the magical enters our world, making us smile at amazing COINCIDENCES.
At this moment she is working on the creation of a large charity NFT project of the World of fragment agency together with the Give Life Foundation.
She has sold and resold NFTs for a total amount of more than 3.5 ETH.
Advised NFT blogger Yulia Polomina with an audience of more than 800,000 followers on Instagram.
Advised NFT artist Semyon Skrepetsky with an audience of over 5,000 Twitter followers.
She lives and works in Moscow.
Solo exhibitions
2020 – «Matches», «Nikolsky passage»,Moscow, Russia
2021 – «Matches», «NAZAVOD art space»,Moscow, Russia
2021 – «Pizdets station», «Garkundel Art Center», Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2022 – «Vasily Semyonovich’s 9th dream», «The center of modern art», Veliky Novgorod, Russia
Group exhibitions
2020 – «Crookrinox», «Zdes’ an Taganke», Moscow, Russia
2020 – «The Worst Summer», «Kristall» factory, Moscow, Russia
2021 – «Lowkey», «Dordor Gallery», New York, USA
2021 – «Chess in Art» – «Russian pavilion of Expo 2020 in Dubai», Dubai, United Emirates
2021 – «Roman Holiday», «Santa Chiara Murano», Milan, Italy
2022 – «KHOROVOD art festival», outdoors vernissage, Bratislava, Slovakia
Collections
Many of her works are now in personal collection all over the world, including Holland, USA, Swaziland and Russia.
Some of her NFTs are also collected by world famous collectors as Vincent Van Dough.
2020 – «Matches», «Nikolsky passage»,Moscow, Russia
2021 – «Matches», «NAZAVOD art space»,Moscow, Russia
2021 – «Pizdets station», «Garkundel Art Center», Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2022 – «Vasily Semyonovich’s 9th dream», «The center of modern art», Veliky Novgorod, Russia
2020 – «Crookrinox», «Zdes’ an Taganke», Moscow, Russia
2020 – «The Worst Summer», «Kristall» factory, Moscow, Russia
2021 – «Lowkey», «Dordor Gallery», New York, USA
2021 – «Chess in Art» – «Russian pavilion of Expo 2020 in Dubai», Dubai, United Emirates
2021 – «Roman Holiday», «Santa Chiara Murano», Milan, Italy
2022 – «KHOROVOD art festival», outdoors vernissage, Bratislava, Slovakia
«Tolshman picture of the world», 2019
Many of her works are now in personal collection all over the world, including Holland, USA, Swaziland and Russia.
Some of her NFTs are also collected by world famous collectors as Vincent Van Dough.
