MARIA BARANOVA

New York City

@photo_by_baranova / info@mariabaranova.com 


Maria Baranova is a New York-based photographer and art director specializing in dance and theater imagery. With a background in Art Painting and Photography, she has spent over a decade documenting experimental performance.
Her early career included work in painting and collage, which informed her approach to photography. She also has professional experience as a layout designer, contributing to her understanding of composition, light, and color. This interdisciplinary background continues to influence her photographic work.


Baranova’s photography has been included in publications such as “Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times Square” and “For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here?” published by Phaidon in 2024. Her work has also appeared in international press. She is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers, USA.


From 2016 to 2018, Baranova filmed and edited the performance series “12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens” by Sibyl Kempson. The resulting film was publicly shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art and was added to the museum’s collection.


Her studio is located in Long Island City, New York.


Client list: Abrons Arts Center, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Baryshnikov Arts, Beach Sessions Dance Series, Be More Chill (Broadway Musical), Big Dance Theater, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, Faye Driscoll, Fisher Center at Bard, Hauser & Wirth, HERE Arts Center, Japan Society, Miles Greenberg, The Juilliard School, The Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The New School, New Museum, New York Live Arts, Pace Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, Pam Tanowitz, Perelman Performing Arts Center, PERFORMA, Performance Space New York, PROTOTYPE Festival, The New York Times, The Shed, Times Square Arts, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Under the Radar Festival, The Watermill Center, Whitney Museum of American Art

© 2025 Maria Baranova-Suzuki