Biography of Olga Nazarkina

I was born in 1981 in Kharkov, Ukraine entered the Kharkov Art School and has held exhibitions from Kiev to New York City. In 2001, I participated in a Charity Auction, lead by Michael Gorbachev, to benefit the victims of 9/11.

    My education in Art (I graduated from a particularized art school in Kharkiv, Ukraine) has provided me with knowledge and experience in art field. I was studying in the school since I was 12 till my 16 years. The courses have required discipline and a meticulous concern for detail and organization. My consistently high performance in my major reflect my aptitude for art.
    Since January 2004 until May 2006 I was an art student in Darton college (GA). This two year school gave me a lot of knowledge in Photography, Design and Drawing. Also, I am receiving the second major in Foreign Languages (Spanish).
    Now since September 2006 I am a student of Savannah College of Art and Design at Atlanta campus.
    Beside my academic work I actively participate in the social life of our College. I am a vice president of 2 honor societies: Alpha Mu Gamma (Foreign Language)and Sigma Delta Mu (Spanish Honors); and I am an active member of Cultural Exchange Club, Phi Theta Kappa (Honor Society), and Art Students League. I'm in constant collaboration with the local museums, teaching children as a volunteer, participating in exhibitions, etc.
    There was my personal exhibition in Albany Art Museum, GA. I have already special artist experience participating in several exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg), France (Paris), and Spain (Barcelona) as well as in USA, particularly in New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey (Jersey City & Manchester), Georgia and Florida. I have some drawing works (coal, gouache), canvases and tapestries.
    For the last three years I have been receiving the scholarship of the Fond of Rising Talented Youth, leading by the Governor of Kharkiv region. In 2002 I won the First Prize among the young artists "From 20 to 40". The contest was held with the help of the Government of Moscow. In 2003 one of my pictures was bought by very famous American Collector(his collection consists of about 12,000 pictures of Non-Conformist Artists) and director of Zimmerly Museum in Washington. In 2004 I received the prize in Spring Into Art Exhibition in Valdosta, GA. During the last 5 years I constantly participate in different exhibitions with such famous Russian artists as Ilya Kabakov, Erik Bulatov, Komar and Melamid, Oleg Scelkov and many others. Several months ago I participated in the exhibition with widely well-known avangard artists such as Malevich, Tatlin, Popova and so on. This exhibition was in Moscow (Russia), and in Barcelona (Spain).