Katya Shkolnik (b. 1972, USSR; lives and works in Milan) is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, sound, painting, and installation. She trained as a Nuclear Engineer at MEPhI National Research Nuclear University, Moscow, and completed graduate study in International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry before turning full-time to artistic practice.

Her work approaches the camera and the exhibition space as experimental instruments — controlled environments in which a single variable can be isolated, sustained, and observed. She is interested in time, in observation, and in the conditions under which a portrait or a space can hold contradictory information without resolving it.

Shkolnik’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Abilkhan Kasteev National Art Museum (Almaty), and has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art Moscow, the StART Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery (London), SCOPE Miami Beach, and Christie’s London.