BIO

Stas Ginzburg is a Brooklyn-based artist and queer refugee from Russia. A 2006 Parsons graduate, he focuses on portrait photography, highlighting LGBTQIA+ community and activism. His work has been featured at the Queens Museum, Photoville, and the National Portrait Gallery in London. His images are included in Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation, a book published by Aperture in fall 2022. Ginzburg’s project Sanctuary, an intimate collection of portraits of queer, trans, and non-binary individuals in their homes, was shortlisted for the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture in 2024 and the Sony World Photography Awards in 2025.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
Holding Space: Community Portraits 2020-2022, Vail Public Library, Vail, CO., June 2 - 30

2022
FLOWERS: Queer & Trans Activists, South Campus Art Gallery, Broward College, Fort Lauderdale, FL., Aug 31 - Nov 10

VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS

2024
Sanctuary, The Griffin Museum of Photography, MA., Jan 12 - Mar 30

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, Nov 14 - Feb 16

Critical Connections: Protest Photography Past + Present, Pace University Art Gallery, NYC, Nov 14 - Jan 25

They’re There, The Corner Gallery, City Point, Brooklyn, NY, July 11 - Aug 31

2022
Live Pridefully, Caribbean Equality Project, Queens Museum, NY, Dec 04 - Mar 06

2021
Long Exposure: A Century of Pictorialism, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, OK., Feb 25 - June 27

PUBLICATIONS

Eyewitness, Taylor Wessing Prize 2024, The Guardian, November 13, 2024, 23

Summers, Joan, Gender Liberation March Rallies for Queer Joy in DC, Paper, 2024

Qween Jean, Mission: The Expression Issue, 2024, 216

Revolution is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation, New York, Aperture, 2022

COLLECTIONS

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN, USA

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, USA

Kunstwerk, Museum of Alison and Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen, Germany

AWARDS

2025
The Independent Photographer, People, finalist

2024
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, shortlisted

Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, top ten

American Photography 40, selected winner

Lucie Foundation, Heritage, finalist

2023
The Dummy Award, book dummy Flowers, 2020-2022, shortlisted