Natalya Smolyanskaya (b. 1958, Moscow) – artist, theorist of contemporary art and the avant-garde, curator, Ph.D. in Philosophy, member of the Union of Artists (painting section (1989)), laureate of the Innovation Prize (Curator of the Year, 2020), fellow of the House of Human Sciences in Paris (2018). Her works involve installations, painting and interactive graphics, video, author's book, dance performance (conceptual solution and scenography). Regular exhibitor since 1982. Graduated in 1981 from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (art and graphics department). From 2007 to 2013, she led a research programme on avant-garde theories and practices and the languages of art at the International College of Philosophy in Paris. She’s a curator and participant of the project "Enter and Allow", participant and leader of the seminar of the project "Place of Art". In 1990–1996 she was one of the organizers and participant of all exhibitions of the Polygon group. She has co-curated the exhibition project "Transformers" (1995-1996) of the Polygon group in four cultural centres of Belgium. Smolyanskaya's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Vologda Art Gallery, the collection of the Ruarts Foundation, the collection of the House of Abstract Painting Kollerarthouse, as well as private collections in Russia, Germany, Finland, Denmark, France, Belgium, Holland, USA, Austria.