Distinguished portrait painter, Marta Grigorieva is renowned world wide for her unique style and ability to capture the hearts
and souls of her illustrious subjects.
Her portraits grace countless private collections in Britain, USA, and throughout Europe, and her work has been exhibited in
New York, London, Milan and Turin.
Marta, the daughter of two doctors, began her career by studying economics in St Petersburg, then, after discovering her passion for
painting, switched to studying fine arts at Harvard.
With the advent of Perestroika, she moved to Manhattan, working as an intern at Christie’s Russian department, specializing in the
works of Faberge.
After studying with celebrated American portrait painter, Nelson Shanks, whose subjects include Diana, Princess of Wales, Margaret
Thatcher and President Clinton, Marta began to carve out a career as a portrait painter in her own right.
As the accolades for her work flooded in, she exhibited at Harvard, then Sotheby’s and, at the request for late Senator
Edward Kennedy, painted The New England Patriots, his favorite football team.
Now a fully-fledged artist, she took up numerous invitations to work on commissions in Piedmont, Italy, spending five years there
from 2001 to 2006, years in which she executed a dazzlingly varied array of work from landscapes to portraits.
COLLECTIONS
Paintings held in private collections in UK, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Dominican Republic, and the USA, including Professor Robert Mundell, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Mr Philip Byrne, vice-chairman of UBS London, Enzo Testa, Chairman of London Archant Publishing, Dvina and Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, Stelios Haji-Ioannou of the Easy Jet, Moady Davis Bouvier, Henri Gwine-Jones, Mr Paul O'Donnell, general Alberto Sordi Arcelli Fontana di Monteventano, and Anselmo Aliberti di Castellar, Dr. Matthew Sala.
EXHIBITIONS
Individual shows:
May - June 2008: Harmony in White, The Burlington Club, Mayfair, London W1.
April 2008: One Light, No 5 Cavendish Square, Marylebone, London W1G.
January 2008: Stream of Life, Radisson Edwardian Canary Wharf, London
October 2005: Ca’Del Lupo, Montelupo Albes, Cuneo Italy.
June 2004: Castello di Castellar, Cuneo Italy.
February 2004: Salon des Arts, Kensington, London, England.
July 2002: Castello di Marcerù, Villafranca Piemonte,Torino Italy.
Collective exhibitions:
November 2007: The Art of Decoration, Englwood, NJ, USA
March 2007: Mayfair, London, Les Trois Visages.
June 2006: PIM Spazio, Milan, PLURAL exhibition of contemporary art.
June 2003: Salon des Arts, Kensington, London, “Challenge the Nail.”
April 2003: Guzman Arte: “Guarda, Ascolta, Gusta,” Torino, Italy.
April 2003: “Saluzzo Arte 2003,” 8 Mostra di Arte Contemporanea fondazione Amletto Bertoni, Saluzzo, Cuneo Italy.
November – December 2002, won II price – premio al concorso di Pittura Art Studio, Associazione Culturale, Istituto Arte e Mestieri, Torino, Italy.
November 2002: Palazzo Mostre e Congressi, Alba, Italia – “Pinot Gallizio.”
October 2002: Salone dei Cavalieri, Pinerolo, Italy “Orizzonti d’Arte e Poesia.”
July, January, and March 2002: Garden of Eden Art Gallery, London, England – “Ladie’s Vision” and "Dog is for life.”
July 2001: Chelsea Art Society, London, England.
June 2001: Salon des Arts, Kensington, London, England.
August 1998 and August 1997: Sotheby’s, New York, NY– USA.
May 1997: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA – USA.
EDUCATION
2005 Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia work shop with Nelson Shanks.
1999-2004 Painted the portrait and figure with Nelson Shanks at the Art Student’s League, New York.
2002-2003 Studied design and figure with Sergio Albano, Turin, Italy.
2001 Studied portraiture at the Prince of Wales Foundation, London.
2000 and 1997 Attended drawing and anatomic courses at The Water Street Atelier, New York.
1997 Sabbatical in Venice, Italy.
1997 Completed graduate study in Fine Arts at Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences concentrating in the Italian Renaissance.
1995-1997 Attended painting courses at the Harvard University School of Visual Arts, Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA.
1994 Painted landscapes in London, England.
1993 Painted landscapes in Lugano, Switzerland.
1990 Relocated to New York City.
1990 Graduated from Moscow Technological University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics.
Began painting at the age of 11.
Began studying music in St. Petersburg at the age of 6 - pianoforte and violin.
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