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ARTISTS STATEMENT

I am a mirror reflecting modern reality through the means available to me.
I carry many roles: I am an artist, a woman, and a mother. I deeply love life, people, and beauty, and this love does not allow me to remain indifferent to the challenges of our time.
My art is a voice that raises important issues: the economic consequences of overproduction and overconsumption, ecological crises, social inequality, the destruction of traditional values, the fleeting illusion of happiness, and modern society’s dependence on advertising.
The canvas, the free-spirited palette knife, and vibrant oil paints are my weapons. But I do not wage war. I am a citizen of the world I live in, and my path is one of dialogue.
Postmodernism, the movement in which I work, allows me to speak the language of our time, using images, symbols, and allegories borrowed from art history. To capture the viewer’s attention, I reinterpret classical compositions, giving them new meaning, and invite them to reflect on the search for a more conscious existence.
I strive to highlight what truly matters: awareness, spirituality, health, and the future of our children and our planet.
My art is an invitation to responsibility, participation, and the collective transformation of the world. 

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EDUCATIONS

ART COMMUNICATION  2024-2025 - Online course, Art communication School by Julia Sysalova, Athens, Greece
FASHION DESIGN  2018- Online Course, Certificate, Fashion Designer. How to create a collection, Instituto Marangoni Milano, Milan, Italy
VISUAL AND GRAPHICAL DESIGN  2008 - 2011 - Certificate, Computer Information System, Central Community College of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
BUSINESS EDUCATION  1977-1981 - Master’s degree in marketing and management, expert incommodity, Moscow University Trade and Economics, Russia

AWARDS

2023 - Special Mention Award at Summer 2023 Artist Grand Competition, Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Teravarna, Los Angeles, USA
2023 - Honorable Mention Award in 7th Portrait, Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Teravarna, Los Angeles, USA
2023 – Honorable Mention Award in 6th Flower, Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Teravarna, Los Angeles, USA
2023 - Talented Price Award in 7th Landscape, Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Teravarna, Los Angeles, USA
2023 – Special Mention Award at Spring 2023, Artist Grand Competition, ContemporaryFine Art Gallery Teravarna, Los Angeles, USA
2023 – Talented Price Award in 5th Color, Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Teravarna, LosAngeles, USA

2021-2023 – Town of Taos Lamppost Banner Art Competition, Taos, NM, USA
2023 – Honorable Mention Award in 6th Animal, International Art Gallery (ARTsiG), LosAngeles, USA
2022 – Talented Price Award in 4th Color, International Art Gallery (ARTsiG), Los Angeles,USA
2022 – Honorable Mention Award in 6th Landscape, International Art Gallery (ARTsiG), LosAngeles, USA
2022 – Talented Price Award in 7th Abstract, I International Art Gallery (ARTsiG), LosAngeles, USA
2022 – Talented Price Award in 5th Portrait, International Art Gallery (ARTsiG), LosAngeles, USA
2018 – Awards of Creativity at 20th annual juried Master Works of New Mexico, NM, USA

SOLO EXHIBITION
2019 – Solo exhibition “In my Own Paradise Life”, Matrix Gallery, Albuqueque/NM
2019 – Solo exhibition “Four Corner”, Follow The Threads Gallery, Taos/ NM
2011 – Solo exhibition, Café Pasta House, Rio Rancho/NM

PUBLICATIONS
2025 – Artistonish Magazine (Biafarin), “Golden Rush”, Issue #55, February, Canada
2024 - Artistonish Magazine (Biafarin), “Motherland”, Issue #42, January, Canada
2023 – Artistonish Magazine (Biafarin), “Wisdom”, Issue #38, September, Canada

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2024 - “Hollyhocks”. New Mexico State, Las Cruses City Hall, NM/USA. Acguired
2023 - “Sunflowers”. Stuart Title Company, Santa Fe, TX/USA. Acquired
2016 - “Winter Bell”. UNM School of Law, Albuquerque, NM/USA. Acquired

CURRENT PRESENTATION
2021 -present – Art Mozaik Gallery, Santa Fe, NM/USA Co-Owner
2018 -present – Taos Artist Collective Gallery, Taos, NM/USA

 CELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Art Fair, Santa Fe, NM/USA
2024 - Juried art show, Cipriarte Venezia Gallery, Venice/Italy
2024 - Juried art show, Andakulova Gallery, Dubai/UAE
2024 - Juried art show, Thomson Gallery, Zug/Switzerland
2023 – Juried art show, NYC Artexpo, ARTBOX.PROJECT, New York/USA
2022 – Two persons art show, Millie ARThur Gallery, Tucson, AZ/USA
2013, 2014, 2018, 2021 – 15th, 16th, 20th, 23rd juried annual Master Works New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM/ USA
2019 – Juried art show at 13th Salon “Art Capital” in Great Palace, Paris/France
2018- 2019 – Juried art show, New Mexico Art League, Albuquerque, NM/USA
2015-2018 – Juried art show, UNM School of Law Not for Profit Art Gallery, NM/USA

The silence of the apocalypse is not the absence of sound, but the absence of awareness.

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