ASPHODELS

Misha Ilin

June 13-27, 2026

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For the duration of the show a simple instruction will gradually produce a space of accumulation, repetition, and residue. Borrowing its title from the myth of the asphodel fields — a late-afternoon afterlife for common people — the work asks what kind of future is being promised through technological fantasies of freedom from work, and what one person is meant to do within such a suspended weekend of humanity. 

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Misha Ilin is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance, and writing. He approaches his projects as forms of social inquiry, bringing personal narratives with larger systemic structures. Ilin received his early art education at the National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow before moving to the United States to pursue an interdisciplinary degree at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has received several grants and fellowships. In 2021, he completed a research residency at Washington Project for the Arts and, with support from a WPA publication grant, released a book of instructions. From 2022 to 2024, he was a Hamiltonian Artists Fellow. Misha’s work has been exhibited at Crossing Art Gallery, New York; The Kitchen, Berlin; the Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC; Homme, Washington, DC; the Modern Art Museum, Shanghai; and M+B Gallery, Los Angeles. He currently lives and works in New York.

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