Lena Pozdnyakova is an artist from Almaty living between Berlin and Los Angeles. Currently, she is a doctoral student at the Art History Institute, Free University in Berlin She is an alumna of the Design Theory and Pedagogy programme at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Architecture from Sheffield University and a Masters in Architecture from Anhalt University of Applied Sciences.
Lena has previously worked in UrbanDATA and 3Gatti Architectural Studio in Shanghai. Deciding to go further into the realm of art, she became part of the artistic duo 2vvo, and started a project for interdisciplinary artistic research. Since 2014 she has exhibited works at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Ars Electronica, Bauhausfest, Unsound, and CTM Festivals. In 2014, she received Robert Oxman Prize, and in 2016 as part of the2vvo, Independent Projects Award by CEC Artslink.