Ilmira Bolotyan, born in Chuvashia, is an artist and curator with a PhD in philology. She was a co-founder of the artist-run space Centre Red. Her paintings and graphic works explore figurative anthropomorphic imagery, as well as studies of the representation of gender and ‘femininity’ in contemporary visual culture. In her participatory projects, she creates different social situations. In 2018 she was nominated for the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award in the category ‘The Best Visual Art Project.’