Ni Petrov (Russian, b. 1986) is an artist whose work examines the overlooked patterns of urban life.,Working from candid photographic moments, he introduces digital manipulation — cut-outs, glitches, and pixel distortions — to transform familiar scenes into reflections on isolation and perception.,He was born in Barnaul, Siberia, and has lived and worked in St. Petersburg, Russia, since 2012.
Petrov graduated from the Altai State Technical University's Architecture and Design Institute in 2010.His practice centered on photographs of crowds and city streets, shown in the series MAN_CITY in Vyborg in 2018 and St. Petersburg in 2019.,He described the work as capturing the fleeting, unrepeatable movement of bodies within a city, “imprinted in the emptiness of the white sheet”.His photographs have appeared in publications including The Calvert Journal and Al-Tiba9, and in 2018 he received an International Photography Grant.
In 2023 he began releasing digital works such as Digital nostalgia, followed by Heart of the Computer Era and WEIGHTLESSNESS.glb in 2024 and Noise in 2025.In the series [ŚŪ], released on Verse, silhouettes of people dissolve into pixel distortions and glitches. The work draws on the Buddhist concept of śūnyatā, or emptiness, reflecting on loneliness within a hyper-connected world.,The series SUBJECT, released on objkt, considers beings as vessels of subjective perception.In RETURN, from 2020, he used panoramic Google and Yandex street-view imagery of his hometown to revisit childhood memories at a time when a physical return was impossible.His work is available across platforms including SuperRare, Foundation, objkt, and Verse.
