Photo bu Zhengyang Xie, 2025 @zhengyang_binder_archives

Margo, a Kyiv-based artist born in Soviet Russia, currently displaced. She graduated from The Rodchenko Art School in 2011 and Hunter College MFA via the Fulbright scholarship program in 2015. She resided at Fabrica S.P.a. in 2011, Italy. Her work was shortlisted by Aperture for the first photobook award in 2018 and for a portfolio in 2022. In 2019, she was selected for "Body: The Photography Book" by Nathalie Herschdorfer and in 2011 for "reGeneration2—Tomorrow's Photographers Today" by Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne. Margo, deeply engaged with feminist and queer discourse, has worked with LGBTQ+ subjects for over 14 years in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Her projects focus on Soviet and Russian propaganda, sports, queer intimacy, and empowerment through self-expression.

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Email at hello@margoovcharenko.com