Ilia Dolgov

Ilia Dolgov is a plant-grower, artist, and writer. Born 1984 in Voronezh, Russia. Left country in 2022 in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Lives in Santa Cruz, California. MFA in Environmental Art and Social Practice from University of California Santa Cruz.   Full CV

—I tend gardens because, every morning, I need to be seduced into living. I invite others to trust these gardens' gaze and voice because the seduction is either shared or airless.

Key bits

I Promise You a Garden

2025 / garden / installation / poem / gatherings

Sciaponics. A Poetic and Practical Guide for Graceful Plant-Growing

2024 / book

Writings

essays / poems / critiques

[research framework] Compound Selves + Sciaponics

writing / education / social practice

Forest Journal

2013-2021 / online speculative platform

Flaming Archipelago

2019 / plants / urban / humans / practice

Other entities

Metabolic design

aliexpressnordgarden

Drinking Set for Irises

Reef'

Reef

Model of Nature, Goethe’s model

Azoic

Herbarium

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