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Artist statement
Daria Koshkina is a multidisciplinary artist and visualization researcher working at the intersection of data art and figurative digital art. Her work examines how stories shape us, what it means to pursue well-being, and how women experience the world through contexts like immigration. She specifically investigates how power structures, oppression, displacement, and hope shape individual identities, and how cultural narratives and beloved stories shape the frameworks of self-support. She uses animation, digital painting, and data art to explore how facts overlap with the subjective yet very real space of personal experience.
Bio
Daria’s work was selected for the Information Is Beautiful Awards 2024 Longlist. She served on juries for the 2025 Young Ones competition and 2024 ONE Screen Short Film Festival. Her works have been showcased at the London Design Festival, The Wrong Biennale and the CICA Museum. Before establishing her personal practice, she worked as a Data Visualization Research Specialist at Barabasi Lab, where she contributed to projects shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Ludwig Museum, MEET Digital Culture Center, and Postmasters Gallery. Her editorial and scientific illustrations have been published by Vice, UN Women, Science, and the Journal of Neuroscience. Daria holds a Bachelor of Arts in Illustration from the University of Hertfordshire and a Master of Digital Media and 3D Animation from Northeastern University.
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EDUCATION
- Northeastern University Boston, USA
M.P.S Digital Media
- University of Hertfordshire [British Higher School of Art and Design] Moscow Campus, Russia
B.A. Illustration
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography Moscow, Russia
Animation, Unfinished
COURSES AND TRAINING
- Scholistico online
Art Therapy Practitioner
- UC Berkeley online
MCELLBIX19A-012 Introductory Biology With Lab
- University of London online
Understanding Research Methods, Certificate
- New York Film Academy New York, USA
Filmmaking, Certificate
- Central St.Martins London, UK
Fashion Illustration, Design
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Data is ART, University of Virginia Charlottesville, U.S.A.
- An Authentic Delirium, The Wrong Biennale, AMP Gallery London, U.K.
- Formula to Form | The Art of Dataism, Műcsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary (as a member of BarabasiLab)
- Art Is #2, CICA Museum Incheon, South Korea
- a safe space, a space in between U.S.A., online
- BMN Kortárs 2025 Budapest, Hungary (as a member of BarabasiLab)
- Everything Then is Now: Alter Peckham, London Design Festival London, U.K.
- Constructing La Biennale, Venice Architectural Biennale Venice, Italy (as a member of BarabasiLab)
- Heavy Holidays, New Alliance Gallery Somerville, U.S.A.
- BMN Kortárs 2024 Budapest, Hungary (as a member of BarabasiLab)
- Distortions, Postmasters Gallery @ Art Factory Budapest, Hungary (as a member of BarabasiLab)
- BarabásiLab: Riadólánc, acb Attachment Budapest, Hungary (as a member of BarabasiLab)
- The Art Of Connection, MEET | Digital Culture Center Milano, Italy (as a member of BarabasiLab)
- BIG DATA (networking the artworld), Postmasters Gallery NYC, U.S.A. (as a member of BarabasiLab)
- I AM NOT A ROBOT: ON THE BORDERS OF THE SINGULARITY, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary (as a member of BarabasiLab)
- Fumetto Comic Festival Lucerne, Switzerland
SCREENINGS & FESTIVALS
- Squish Movie Camp, Rotterdam, Netherlands, “The Language Is The Limit” animation showcase
- Northeastern Student Film Festival, Boston, U.S.A., “The Language Is The Limit” animation showcase
- Malt Adult, Chicago, U.S.A.,”Goodbye” showcased on Adult #26 “Mundane Drain”
- Lift-Off Sessions, U.K., “The Language Is The Limit” animation showcased
AWARDS
- Data is ART Finalist, University of Virginia School of Data Science
- Top 100 Social Arts Awards, The Institute for Art and Innovation (IFAI)
- Information Is Beautiful Awards Longlist
- Winner: XYZ Game Jam, VIZYX game (Character concept and design)
- Finalist: OpenIDEO x Riot Games: Design For Digital Thriving
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. Exhibition catalogue. Venice: La Biennale di Venezia.
- Social Art Awards Book. The Institute for Art and Innovation (IFAI).
- “A Like Artist.” Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art.
AUCTIONS
- Sample Art Auction
COLLECTIONS
- Digital Activism Illustration Collection, The Greats.io
PUBLICATIONS
- “10 Questions with Daria Koshkina.” Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art. Interview.
- “Neuroscience Needs Network Science.” The Journal of Neuroscience. Illustrations.
- “Who Supports American Art Museums? Introducing a New Dataset and Data Sources about Museum Funding.” Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Illustrations.
- “Devoted to Discovery: Seven Women Scientists Who Have Shaped Our World.” UN Women. Illustrations.
- “Voodoo Village.” Selected Inspiration.
- “Daria Koshkina’s 24-Hour Comics.” Vice.
- “Hannah Arendt.” 360Journal. Illustration.
SPEAKING
- Reach-out interview for the panel “What Do Visualization Art Projects Bring to the VIS Community?“, IEEE VIS
- Studio 2: About my practice, CAMD Northeastern
- It’s A Process! Navigating Your Design Career, Interventions: Ignite Conference