Margarita Gluzberg was born in Moscow in 1968, and has lived in London since 1979. She studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and the Royal College of Art in London. Her multidisciplinary practice has a great emphasis on drawing but also encompasses photography, sound installation and performance. Gluzberg weaves historical, semi-autobiographical, and cultural elements into her work, often exploring the tensions and reciprocal interplay between the past and the present, memory recall alongside recurring fiction, and the politics of desire.

Solo exhibitions include Implicate Factory Outlet, Alma Pearl, London (2025); Otherwhere, Alma Pearl, London (2023); Proper Time, Karsten Schubert, London (2022); In Paradise, Pushkin House, London (2019); For Children Not For Children, Filet Space, London (2018); Avenue des Gobelins, Paradise Row, London (2012). Her work was presented at major contemporary art spaces in the UK and abroad, including Royal Academy of Arts, London; Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne; Drawing Room, London; Site Gallery, Sheffield; the Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort; Lunds Konsthall, Lund; and The British School at Rome (where she was a Wingate Scholar). In 2016, her Wellcome Trust project ‘Rock on Bones’, a series of multimedia performance lectures, was staged at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill; the London Performance Studios; and the Royal College of Art.

Gluzberg has had a long career in art education – teaching across art schools in Britain and Europe, and was Reader in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art 2012-2018. She is currently Senior Lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools.