Masha Pryven (born 1988) was raised in Luhansk, Ukraine and studied in Kyiv. A Fulbright Graduate Scholarship recipient, she holds a M.A. degree in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, USA (2009-2011). In 2014, she moved to Berlin, Germany, and she has lived and worked there since. Currently a student of the MA program “Art in Context” at the University of Arts in Berlin.

Masha is an artist, working primarily with photography. In her work, she explores the relationship between the public and the private, and she is interested in the forms of co-authorship, collaboration and collective performances. She works with different groups of people inviting them to become her co-authors.

Masha began photographing in 2019 and has since had various exhibitions and interventions both in institutional settings and public contexts. The most recent ones have taken place in public space of Humboldt Forum (2025), Border Control Point at the EU border in Narva, Estonia (2024) and Rathaus Lichtenberg (2024). She has also participated in group exhibitions, including exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bethanien in Berlin (2020, 2021), GlogauAir Gallery (2022, 2022), Roots Gallery in Pisa (2023) and in 2023 was part of the duo exhibition “double take/побачити” Kateryna Lysovenko, Masha Pryven at Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim. In 2025 she exhibited in two group exhibitions at Salon am Moritzplatz (Berlin) and Wozownia Galerie as part of the 11th Vintage Photofestival (Torun, Poland).

She received a Cultural Education Project Fund for her project Alphabet of War, which in 2025 became a book of testimonies, photography and interviews. The book has been broadly presented at Leipzig Book Fair, America Memorial Library (ZLB), Bücherkeller Berlin and reviewed in press.

Her first photography book The Way to Combray was published by Edition Frölich in Berlin in 2022.

One of her collaborative projects See What I See was published in Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography, edited by Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, and others, Thames and Hudson, UK, 2023.