Toma Gerzha

Toma Gerzha (b. 2003) grew up in Moscow, Kolchugino, Lukhovitsy, and still speaks Russian language. Her family moved to the Netherlands in 2009.

She has successfully completed her Photography Studies at the Dutch Academy for Visual Creation in 2019. Gerzha first garnered attention in the gallery world with her project ".ru", featuring photographic works generated through artificial intelligence, which was presented in 2024 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Toma has become widely known for her animation-based reels. Currently, she is pursuing an MA in Arts and Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

Her works are in collection of Rijksmuseum Research Library, Farm Cultural Park, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Getty Library and Stedelijk Museum Library in Amsterdam.

Since 2023, Gerzha is an artist-resident at the creative studio Treehouse, located on the NDSM-Wharf in Amsterdam.

MA Arts and Culture
· University of Amsterdam, 2027

BA Art History
· University of Amsterdam, 2026

BA (Hons) Photography
· Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2024
· University of Arts London, 2023

Photography Studies
· Dutch Academy for Visual Creation, 2019

Solo Exhibitions:
CONTROL REFRESH (2025), De Gang, Haarlem, Netherlands
FAR AWAY FROM HOME (2024), 9:16 Gallery, Porto, Portugal
KVARTIRKA (2023), Upscale Galerie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
NAMELESS PEOPLE, NAMELESS COUNTRY (2022), C-LAB, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Group Exhibitions：
2026:
QUICKSCAN 3: THE STATUS OF THE PHOTOBOOK, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
GEN Z: SHAPING A NEW GAZE, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
THE BEST DUTCH BOOK DESIGNS, De Garage, Breda, Netherlands

2025:
REGENERATION Z, Photo Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
THE BEST DUTCH BOOK DESIGNS, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
LOS MEJORES LIBROS DE FOTOGRAFÍA DEL AÑO, PHotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain
BEING TWENTY, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy
PARIS PHOTO–APERTURE PHOTOBOOK AWARDS, Leipzig Photobook Festival, Leipzig, Germany; Printed Matter, New York, US

2024:
YOUNG PORTFOLIO, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan
CARTE BLANCHE ETUDIANTS, Paris Photo, Paris, France
MANIFESTA'15, Barcelona, Spain
RIETVELD UNCUT, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
MUTANTX, Biennale de l'Image Possible, Liège, Belgium

2023:
REGENERATE, Noorderlicht Fotofestival, Groningen, Netherlands
HEAD ON PHOTO FESTIVAL, Delma...