Marta Grigorieva is renowned as a portrait painter of distinction, admired for her ability to capture the hearts and souls of her illustrious
sitters. Her paintings grace countless private collections in Britain, the USA and throughout Europe, and her work has been exhibited extensively
in New York, London, Milan and Turin.
Marta was born in Russia into a medical and musical family. After studying pianoforte and violin at the St. Petersburg preparatory school for the
Conservatory, she achieved a BA in economics at Moscow Technological University.
In 1990, taking advantage of Perestroika, she moved to New York City, working as an intern in the Russian department at Christie’s,
specializing in Faberge. In 1996, strengthening her interest in fine arts, Marta attended Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, reading
fine art and art history; and on her return to New York the following year, while working at Sotheby's, she began to study portrait and figure
painting with the leading American portraitist Nelson Shanks at the Art Student League.
While acknowledging Shanks as her mentor, Marta soon began to carve out a name for herself as a portrait painter in her own right.
She has received major commissions from, among others, the late Senator Edward Kennedy, UBS vice-chairman Phillip Byrne,
Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, the Nobel Laureate in Economics Robert Mundell, HRH Princess Michael of Kent and Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou,
the founder of Easy Jet.
At the same time as continuing to expand the conventions of figurative painting, focusing on revealing the various and often hidden aspects
of her subjects’ inner worlds, Marta has also explored a dazzling array of other media, styles and subjects, including murals,
trompe l’oeil and plein air landscape. Her oeuvre is distinguished throughout by its exceptional use of colour and light and is constantly evolving.
EXHIBITIONS
October 2011 Drouot Richelieu Auction, Paris
Individual shows:
May - June 2008: Harmony in White, The Burlington Club, Mayfair, London.
April 2008: One Light, No 5 Cavendish Square, Marylebone, London.
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.
July 2002: Castello di Marcerù, Villafranca Piemonte,Torino, Italy.
Collective exhibitions:
November 2007: The Art of Decoration, Englwood, NJ, USA.
March 2007: Les Trois Visages, Mayfair, London.
June 2006: PLURAL exhibition, PIM Spazio, Milan.
June 2003: Challenge the Nail, Salon des Arts, Kensington,
London.
April 2003: Ascolta, Gusta, Guzman Arte, 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: Pinot Gallizio, Palazzo Mostre e Congressi, Alba, Italy.
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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