Van O (Ivan Isaev) was born at 1975 in Moscow, Russia, graduated the biological faculty of the Moscow State University and the School of dramatic art of An. Vasiliev. He worked as the actor at the theaters "Dance-model" and "Mystery of costume", as the club designer– created the collections of vanguard fashion. Art-photographer since 1999, the member of Russian Union of Art Photographers since 2009 and of the Creative Union of Russian Artists since 2015. Works are in the collections of Russian museum of St. Petersburg, Erarta Museum of contemporary art and private collections. The winner of the "Heroes" contest -Marler Kunststern,2017; prize winner "From Selfie to Self-Expression" contest, Saatchi gallery,2017; prize winner of Bio-Art Contest, Seoul, 2018. 

     Selected exibitions:

"Blind spot" – MORA Museum of International Art, Jersey City, USA, 2025
"404://ART"  – RevArt Gallery, Mountain View, USA, 2025
Artiade 2024  – Olympic Building, New York, USA, 2024
"Apocalypse" – Аnnenkirche, St.-Petersburg, Russia, 2023 
"Pan-opticum" – Erarta Contemporary Art Museum, St.-Petersburg, Russia, 2022
"Photo Top"– Gallery of Classic Photography, Moscow, Russia, 2021
"Developing a genre/interior" – Museum of Actual Realism, Toliatti, Russia, 2018 
"The Essential"– Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy, 2018. 
6th Bio-Art Contest " Food and Feed ", Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2018. 
"Actual Russia/Рlaing Classics" – Museum of Decorative and Applied Art, Russia, 2017 
"Heroes"– Marler Kunststern, Marl, Germany, 2017. 
"From Selfie to Self-Expression" – Saatchi gallery, London, Great Britain, 2017 
"Red gates/Against the stream" – Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia, 2016 
"Photonaturemort" – Photoparade, Uglich, Russia, 2016 
"Science and art" – "Na Kashirke" gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2015 
"Crex,fex,pex" – Literature State Museum, Moscow, Russia, 2015 
"Yellow Submarine" – Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia, 2015 
"Absurd ABC” – "Na Kashirke" gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2015                                                                                                 
"The original fake" – Darwin museum, Moscow, Russia, 2012 
The II Museum photobienalle  – The Russian Museum, St.-Petersburg, Russia, 2012 
"New Angelarium" – Moscow Museum of  Modern Art, Russia, 2007 
"Power" – Moscow Museum of  Modern Art, Russia, 2007 
"The Money defeat the Evil" – VHUTEMAS gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2004