Maxim Frolov is a London-based contemporary artist whose practice explores the limits of freedom, identity, and the body through new ethics and post-digital aesthetics.

Working across painting, video, installation, and object-based art, Frolov blends photorealistic and post-collage imagery, translating complex sketches into canvases using oil or acrylic. His visual language draws from the Pictures Generation and 1990s American art, while often incorporating sound to build immersive, multi-sensory environments.

A personal experience with lymphoma profoundly shaped his approach, intensifying his engagement with themes of transgression, vulnerability, and transformation. Rather than framing illness as trauma, his work refracts it through aesthetic and conceptual strategies—where the body becomes both material and metaphor.

Frolov’s art inhabits the space between constructed image and lived experience, pushing the boundaries of contemporary visual culture while questioning how we define autonomy, resilience, and presence.

DOB: December 21, 1990
Born in Saratov, Russia
Lives and works in London, UK

solo exhibition

2022 – 'NEW ERA/NEW TRIBE', Blind Spot Gallery, Sevkabelport, St. Petersburg, Russia

selected exhibitions

2025 - 'The Art BBQ', 44AD artspace, Bath, UK

2025 - 'Kommunal Praksis, Struer Tracks 2025', Biennial for Sound and Listening, Denmark Danish

2023 – 'STURM: Timeline', Arts Square Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

2023 – 'Locked up', BS Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation

2022 – 'Subcultural Landscape Part II', Gothic Hall, Baron Stieglitz Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2021 – 'ONS.CLUB', Bertgolts Center, St. Petersburg Russia

2021 – 'A Leap in the Dark', LUDA Gallery, St. Petersburg

2021 – 'ART.NUNC', "Welcome Home", Hotel Boutique Home, St. Petersburg, Russia

biennial

2025 - 'Kommunal Praksis, Struer Tracks 2025', Biennial for Sound and Listening, Denmark Danish

awards

2023 – 'Subcultural Landscape Part II', Gothic Hall, Baron Stieglitz Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

art fair

2023 – PORT ART FAIR, Sevkabelport, St. Petersburg, Russia

educational background

2016 – 2022
Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, St. Petersburg, Russia

2007-2011
Saratov Art School named after Bogolubov, Design Department, Russia