About artist
Ms. Marina Fedorova is one of the most prominent and sought-after contemporary Russian artists. Her works were acquired by major art institutions and distinguished private collectors and exhibited in an impressive number of solo shows in Russia and abroad. The Artist’s broad appeal to art experts and general public alike can be put down to her unique ability to stay consistently relevant and capture the spirit of time while at the same time retaining her trademark painting manner and the extraordinary inventiveness of artistic vision: ‘Show me a hint of an opportunity — and I’ll immediately start thinking of ways to put it to use!’
One of the major achievements that Ms. Fedorova can be credited with is the creation of a persuasively vivid image of the contemporary woman who exists within the coordinate systems of aestheticist sophistication, playful sensuality, and careless dreaminess, but also, quite remarkably, of social responsibility. Nearly a decade and a half of her professional career saw the emergence of an impressive body of works having at its core the life of a modern urbanite and the multifaceted image of the contemporary big city. Drawing her inspiration from sources as far-reaching and varied as the American hyperrealism, Japanese woodblock prints, pop art and modernism, the Artist cites Alex Kanevsky, Eric Fischl, Alex Katz, and Georgia O’Keeffe as her visual influences, also paying tribute to such Russian contemporaries as Rinat Voligamsi and Andrey Novikov.
Born in 1981 in Leningrad (USSR, now St. Petersburg, Russia), the Artist spent her childhood and formative years in the same city. For as long as she can remember, drawing was her primary means of communication, with attendance of art classes proving instrumental in broadening the creative outlook and honing practical skills. In 1996, Marina entered the Nicholas Roerich Art School in St. Petersburg where she studied graphic design and developed an interest in fashion industry, hence the next logical step came in the form of enrolment at the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (formerly known as the Vera Mukhina Art School) in 2000 where she majored in Fashion Design and Illustration. Her student years were associated with prolonged traineeships at the two leading fashion houses of St. Petersburg with active involvement in the creation of their advertising images and printed materials, as well as the staging of fashion shows.
