Aristova Maria

Biography

I live and work in St.Petersburg and I am the member of the Union of Artists of Russia and St.Petersburg.
In 2010 I graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts named after Ilya Repin, department of Eduard Kochergin.
My art events include 15 solo exhibitions (one of the main ones are the Anna Akhmatova Museum, St.Petersburg, 2009; the “the Arielle“ gallery, Turin, 2010; Art-Muse, St.Petersburg, 2014; the White hall, the Union of Artists, St.Petersburg, Russia, 2015; the Hermitage-Vyborg, 2016) in Russia, Italy and Sweden as well as over 100 joint exhibitions (National Youth Exhibition-2010, the Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia, 2010; international exhibition “Baltic Biennale” in the Mon Repo park, Vyborg, Russia, 2010; international exhibition “Geniuses and Masterpieces “, the “Manege” central exhibition hall, St.Petersburg, Russia, 2011; international art-project “Surrealism today”, the Museum of Ethnography, Coimbra, Portugal. The exhibition is commemorated to the 50 years of the museum. The Museum of Ethnography is the second largest and one of the most attended in Portugal, 2012; regional youth exhibition Omsk-St.Petersburg, the exhibition hall of the Union of Artists on the Morskaya embankment, St.Petersburg, Russia, 2015; “Almaty through the eyes of St.Petersburg artists, the History of Almaty Museum, organized by the “Erarta” museum, 2017).

I am a prize winner of Russian and international competitions, exhibitions and art-projects.

In 2015 I opened the art school #art_life of Maria Aristova, where children and adults can attend painting workshops, as well as participate in various art competitions.

Since 2018 I have been working as a curator for @artistspaintspb exhibition project.


My paintings are in private collections in Italy, England, Belgium, Germany, Australia, Sweden, France, China (including the private collection of the Harbin Art Museum of Russian Painting) and Russia, in the collection of the Hermitage-Vyborg exhibition centre, the S.Dyagilev Museum, the collection of the Noskin brothers, in the private collection of Vyacheslav Malafeyev (the goal-keeper of the Zenit football team), in the private collection of Eduard Pichugin (the Lenfilm studio director), in the private collection of the Consul General of Kingdom of Belgium in St.Petersburg, Mr Hans Timbremont.