Lana Malakhoff (Svetlana Malakhova) is a New York–based contemporary artist whose practice is devoted to exploring the human body as a living, emotional, and sculptural matter. In her works, the body becomes a landscape of tension and transformation — a mass that preserves both vulnerability and strength.
Educated at the leading art academies of Europe and the United States — including the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, Stroganov Academy, Florence Academy of Art, and New York Academy of Art — she combines the precision of classical academic training with a distinctly contemporary visual language.
Malakhoff’s artistic method also includes a rare practice of anatomical study with a pathologist, allowing her to understand the human form not only visually, but as an inner structure of life and decay. This experience has become the foundation of her exploration of corporeality — what she calls “telecnost”, or the material presence of the body.
Her works have been exhibited internationally — including Art Russia Fair, Art Dubai, Art Shanghai, and Art on Paper (New York) — and are held in the Dresden Museum of Russian–German Culture.
