Born in 1984 in Russia. Lives and works in the United States. She received an MA in Humanities from the Russian State University and an MFA from Bradley University.
Samoylova has exhibited internationally, including at Aperture Foundation in New York; Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston; Suwon Photography Festival in South Korea; and Pingyao International Photography Festival in China. Her work has been included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and the ArtSlant Prize collection in Paris. In 2015, she was granted an artist residency at Latitude Chicago. Her work has been published in the New Yorker and Foam magazines. Her first monograph, Landscape Sublime, was released by In-Between Editions in June 2016.