Anastasiya Pentyukhina is independent photographer. Born in 1993 in the village of Pokrovo-Prigorodnoye, Tambov region.  

Since 2015, she has been living and working in Moscow.  

She works on long-term projects, exploring themes of memory, identity, and post-Soviet changes.

Awards:  

2025 — “Polotno” contest — semi-finalist
2025 — “Contemporaries” contest of “Rules of Life” magazine (-ex Esquire) — winner
2025 — “Light and Color” contest — finalist
2024 — Young Photographers of Russia — finalist
2022 — BarTur Photo Award — finalist
2022 — Alexander Yefremov Reportage Photography Competition — finalist
2022 — Young Photographers of Russia — finalist

Individual exhibitions: 

2025 — “E2-E4”, Transit zone, Zelenogorsk, St. Petersburg (curated by intc)
2024 — “Irskaya commune. History in faces”, House of Culture in Leninskoye village, Tambov region (curated by Valentina Tyutikova)

Group exhibitions: 

2025 — “Sport through Time” exhibition, “Blind (fold) chess” project, Omelchenko Gallery Art Gallery, Design Factory, Moscow
2025 — Exhibition “Forgotten Things”, project “Tractor and Labor”, Linda de La Art Center, Moscow, curated by Sasha Var 2025 — Exhibition of the installation project “Co-storage system. Part 2”, the Tractor and Labor project, Zverev Center for Free Art, Moscow curators Katya Tagutti and Alexandra Moiseenko
2025 — The festival “Irskaya commune. The format of life”, photo project “Tractor and Labor” house of Culture in Leninskoye village, Tambov region
2024 — Exhibition of the Young Photographers of Russia Contest, Russian Museum of Photography, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2023 — Exhibition of the BarTur Photo Award, Instytut Fotografii Fort, Warsaw, Poland
2023 — “I live in Russia”, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2023 — Exhibition of the BarTur Photo Award, F³ — Space for Photography, Berlin, Germany
2022 — Exhibition of the A. Efremov Reportage Photography Contest, Tyumen, Russia
2022 — Exhibition of the Young Photographers of Russia Contest, Kaluga, Russia

Artist Talk, interview:

2025 — Interview in the magazine “Rules of Life” magazine (-ex Esquire)
2025 — Artist talk “The history of the creation of a photo project about the Irsky commune”, Museum and Exhibition Center named after Lisa Chaikina, Tver
2023 — Interview for the program “Besedka” of The All Russia Association of the Blind (VOS) social Internet radio
2023 — Interview “Blind (fold) chess. How was a photo project about chess players with visual impairment create” for the Information portal “Special View”

Education:

2025 — GES-2, The laboratory of the artist’s book
2025 — Rodchenko Art School. The course “Light: theory and practice” 
2023 — The School of Photography PoleZreniya. Course “Color”
2022 — School of Modern Photography “DokDokDok”
2015 — TSU named after Derzhavin, Faculty of Economics

Telegram blog: Anapent | Nastya Pentyukhina

Photo by Danila Sedov.