Kirill Muniabin (b.1978) is a lens-based visual artist. Lives and works in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
In his projects, Kirill works at the intersection of post-documentary approaches and performative practice. His work brings together real biographies and memories, feelings of vulnerability and loneliness that exist within the everyday life. He combines observation with directing, and documentary material with reconstruction. Using realist photography as his primary tool, he assembles facts and inner experience into a single visual narrative. Kirill’s work is aimed at an encounter with the silence of memory, an experience in which the viewer pieces together meaning from pauses and details. His projects immerse the viewer in a state where one recognizes one’s own zones of silence in someone else’s story, and the personal within the frame becomes a shared experience.
Group exhibitions and festivals
2026. Centre Civic Pati Llimona. IPFA Award Collective Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain
2026. Blue Sky Gallery. The Critical Mass Top 50 group exhibition, Portland, USA
2025. Duncan Miller Gallery. The Critical Mass Top 50 group exhibition, LA, USA
2025. Klompching Gallery. FRESH Photo Award 2025 virtual group exhibition, NY, USA
Awards and participation
2026. Kamira Photo Award 2026 — Special mention
2026. LensCulture Portrait Awards 2026 — Finalist
2026. RPS International Photography Exhibition 167 — Shortlisted
2026. ARGUS 2025 International Photography Competition. “Art photography” category — Special jury mention
2026. Photometria International Festival “Parallel Voices 26” — Finalist
2026. IPFA Award 2025 Top 50 — Finalist
2025. FRESH Photo Award 2025 — Finalist
2025. Critical Mass 2025 Top 50 — Finalist
Publications
2026. F-STOP Magazine
2026. Sobaka.ru
2025. Life Framer. Scenes of life editors' pick. Daily Happenings
Collections
Russian Museum of Photography, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Public speaking and other activities
2025. Lecture, Russian Museum of Photography, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Education
2024. School of New Photography of Elena Sukhoveeva and Victor Khmel, Krasnodar, Russia.
2001-2003. Postgraduate studies at the Academy of Water Transport, Nizhniy Novgorod. PhD degree.
1996-2001. Academy of Water Transport, Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod