Maria Egorova
She was born in 1993 in Shakhunya, Nizhny Novgorod Region. Studied at the State Budgetary Educational Institution of the Nizhny Novgorod Art University, painting department, and then at the St. Petersburg State Academy of Fine Arts named after Repin, painting faculty. Currently lives and works in Nizhny Novgorod. Teaches at the Nizhny Novgorod Art College. Member of the Nizhny Novgorod Union of Artists.
Works with figurative painting, as well as in the field of decorative and applied arts, has graphic techniques and is engaged in mosaics. In her practice, she addresses the themes of everyday life, the interaction of man and place, identity. The artist embodies everyday rituals through quotes from masterpieces of romantic art, through the imagery of the “severe” style she addresses modern heroes of small towns, blurs the boundaries of the virtual and the real in the genre of formal portraiture
Solo projects:
2024 – Mental attitudes, DioDia Night Gallery, Moscow
2024 – Periphery, Fairground, Shakhunya
2024 – Aspiration, Sarov
2023 – Personal space, Record Cultural Center, Nizhny Novgorod
2023 – Doctor Dappertutto, Rafkind House, Nizhny Novgorod
2020 – Belousov-Egorova’s “School” project, Central Exhibition Hall, Nizhny Novgorod 2020 – Personal exhibition “Russia-China”, District Palace of Culture, Shakhunya
The artist’s works are in the collection of the State Museum-Theater Dom Meyerhold, Penza, in the fund of the St. Petersburg State Academy of Fine Arts named after Repin, St. Petersburg, as well as in private collections in Russia, Europe, China, Australia, and the USA.
Works with figurative painting, as well as in the field of decorative and applied arts, has graphic techniques and is engaged in mosaics. In her practice, she addresses the themes of everyday life, the interaction of man and place, identity. The artist embodies everyday rituals through quotes from masterpieces of romantic art, through the imagery of the “severe” style she addresses modern heroes of small towns, blurs the boundaries of the virtual and the real in the genre of formal portraiture
Solo projects:
2024 – Mental attitudes, DioDia Night Gallery, Moscow
2024 – Periphery, Fairground, Shakhunya
2024 – Aspiration, Sarov
2023 – Personal space, Record Cultural Center, Nizhny Novgorod
2023 – Doctor Dappertutto, Rafkind House, Nizhny Novgorod
2020 – Belousov-Egorova’s “School” project, Central Exhibition Hall, Nizhny Novgorod 2020 – Personal exhibition “Russia-China”, District Palace of Culture, Shakhunya
The artist’s works are in the collection of the State Museum-Theater Dom Meyerhold, Penza, in the fund of the St. Petersburg State Academy of Fine Arts named after Repin, St. Petersburg, as well as in private collections in Russia, Europe, China, Australia, and the USA.
