Danila Polyakov (born 1983) is a Russian artist and performer. He became famous as the first male supermodel from Russia to take part in the world's leading fashion shows. As a supermodel, he worked with David Bradshaw, Stephen Meisel and Sam Taylor-Johnson. Manifesting fashion in his art experience, Danila turned to the graphic genre, and later to work with textile and embroidery. In his objects and performances, which convey complex experiences of reality, the artist explores themes of self-identification, physicality, sexual and gender identity. His practice is a key tool for studying oneself and his connections with the outer world. He has been working with the ART4 Museum since 2009.

“Danila creates projects in an instant and literally out of nothing. When I saw Danila’s work made from empty sheets of paper on the wall, I realized he could transform any space. And, while until 2018 there were mainly small drawings, from that moment on he could own any size. Every artist works in his own size, and Danila owns whichever size your mind dares think of. He, actually, had worked with fabric all the time, since his very first public exhibition “Beware Your Desire”, when he made some nasty clothes for the exhibition opening. He combines his ownership of space with the sewing skills he mastered back in the days of his modeling career to create objects of art”. Igor Markin