Lina Ivanova is an artist working with photography, sculpture and installation. Her autobiographical practice is process-led, exploring social narratives of migration, family, history, heritage and displacement. Concerned with appropriation of the archive and found objects, Lina uses industrial materials to negotiate the nature and transformation of the photographic image in space, through the notions of individual and collective memory.




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EDUCATION
PGCE Art & Design, Canterbury Christ Church University 2018
BA Photography , University of Portsmouth 2015


EXHIBITIONS

2024
Business Is Driven By Quarterly Results, Reeves Corner, part of Desire Paths commission by Turf Projects
Expanded Spatialities, 2/3 Galeria, Buchurest, Romania 
Rethinking Eastern Europe, Photobook Cafe
Rethinking Eastern Europe, Arles 
Rethinking Eastern Europe, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton Photo Fringe
Sling, Cell Studios
2022
Orbits, Revolv Collective 5th year anniversary, Seen Fifteen Gallery
Blue House, Flat 2G, Eardley Road 
2021
A Cohesion of Light, Peckham 24
Leap into the Void, Goethe Institute, Bulgaria
2020
8 street locations, South Bermondsey Art Trail 
TRAIA PHOTO LAB X PINSHARP MAG
F O R M, Seen Fifteen, Peckham
2019
Representation on the Line II: (Un)framing our Identities, RPS, Chelsea
Photography and Sculpture, AMP Studios, London
Intro:spective, Seen Fifteen, Peckham
2018 - 2015 
4UZHBINA, Phoenix Brighton, Brighton Photo Fringe
Showcase, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury
Portfolio, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Преход, Night of the Museums, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Archive as Medium, Four Corners Gallery, London                                   
Saint Clement of Ohrid, Ashford School, Ashford
Bohemian, Number 28 Albert Road, Portsmouth                      
Work In Progress, Unit 23, Park Mall, Ashford 
Platform 2015, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth                


WORKSHOPS/TALKS/PUBLICATIONS/COMMISSIONS

2024
The Land and The Artist, Photo 50, London Art Fair 
Photo Portrait, Now What? National Portrait Gallery, Student Photography Symposium
Retelling Histories,  Young Photographers’ Weekend, Tate Modern
Croydon Town Centre Regeneration Strategy - series of ceramic workshops 
Act One, Retrieving Croydonia - Panel Discussion, Somerset House 
 
2023
Desire Paths, Turf Projects Commission
Terra Firma Magazine, issue 8 - Anxiety
Collaboration with Sophie Willison
2022
East Meets West, FORMAT Masterclass
Revolv Award - a year long mentorship programme
Cyanotype Workshops - Bomb Factory Arts Foundation
2021
East Meets West, FORMAT Masterclass 
Cyanotype Workshops - Bomb Factory Arts Foundation 
Cyanotype Workshop - Peckham 24
2020
F O R M Public programme, Seen Fifteen, London
Online Portfolio Reviews - Revolv Collective
2019
Panel: Exhibiting your work: Relevance, Reality + Sustainability; Life Framer x Metro
Homeland Panel Discussion with Martin Seeds and Dafna Martin, London
Homeland Book Workshop, London
Intro:spective Artist Crit, Seen Fifteen Gallery, London
Zine It Up! workshop, BA Photography, LCC, London
2018
Roots or Routes public zine workshop, Brighton Photo Fringe, Phoenix Brighton
Artist Talk, Brighton Photo Fringe, Phoenix Brighton 
On Collaboration, Talk and Artist Crit, University of Brighton
Salt Printing Workshop, Folkestone Darkroom Collective, Salt Festival, Folkestone
Photography as a collaborative action, University of Portsmouth, Menier Gallery, London
Portfolio Reviews, University of Portsmouth, Menier Gallery, London
One Year, Open call, Exhibition, App and Google Extension launch and Portfolio Reviews, SafeHouse, London
Artist Talk, First Mondays, Brighton Photo Fringe, Phoenix Brighton
Art World Survival Kit, Talk, BA Fine Art,  CCCU, Canterbury
2017
Photocatalyst, Zine workshop, Four Corners Gallery
Artist Crit, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2016
Alumni Talk, University of Portsmouth

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/FUNDING 
The Richard and Siobhan Coward Foundation Analogue Photography Grant 2022
Turner Contemporary Portfolio Prize, 2018
Kent Creative Awards Shortlist, 2017
Artist in Residence, Ashford School, Kent 2016/17
Aspex Platform Graduate Award Shortlist, 2015
Strong Island Creative Graduates to Watch Award – Photography, 2015