Portrait of the artist (2017) Painting by Margarita Simonova

My name is Margarita Simonova. I am an academic artist-sculptor. My creative direction is balanced between academic realism and impressionism. To be devoted to nature and at the same time capture a fleeting mood.

2015-2019 MGAKHU Academic College in memory of 1905 with honors and praise at the Faculty of Sculpture, where they laid all the foundations of painting. Since 2019 at the Academic University of MGAKHI Surikov, Faculty of Sculpture.

Due to my education, I am an academic sculptor, but I am equally proficient in sculpture and drawing, as well as academic painting, which is not typical for a professional sculptor. Being at the junction of two academic artistic directions and owning each of them, I see the world around me differently. 

Thanks to my academic education, I work from nature: whether it's running clouds in the North of Russia, cute pets, urban landscapes, rains or sunsets. I go with paints and sketchbook to the North, to the virgin corners of Russia, I catch the character of a friendly and very playful dog, I go to another country, and everywhere I write or sculpt my impression of what I saw. I always rely in my work on a living, genuine perception when there is no "glass" between me and the world, when I can feel the depicted moment of life not only with my eyes and hands, but also with my whole body, with my whole mind and soul. I paint large paintings and sculptures from my "live" sketches.

2021    British exhibition from the World Association of Portrait Sculptors Society of Portrait Sculptors "FACE 2021". Sculpture bust "Genghis” awarded the TIRANTI PRIZE COMMENDED https://www.portrait-sculpture.org/copy-of-gallery-4-face2020

2021   Season 3 "Time, Go Ahead!" Finalist in the “DPI" nomination with the work "Conquering the Peaks", participant of the exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow

2021  "Autumn exhibition" sculpture of the OMS from the MSCH “Natasha", Moscow, Kuznetsky Bridge, house 20

2021   Exhibition "ARTIST WANTED Episode IV". Sculptures “Natasha” and "Rottweiler Eva". The museum-apartment of A.A. Blok in St. Petersburg

2021   The exhibition of the OMS from the MSCH  "The beginning of the way. Traditions and innovations in the art of the young". Sculpture "Dasha". Moscow

2021    MOSH exhibition "YOUTH XLI", Moscow

2021   The exhibition ART-ROSTOV, Rostov-on-Don

2021   3rd place in the American competition "Cameiback Gallery" "FACE 2021"

2020   All-Russian Competition-Festival 2020 of Young Sculptors, 1st place in the nomination "Portrait" - Bust "Senya", Ufa

2018   IX Stroganov Olympiad 2018 Moscow State Art and Industrial Academy named after S. G. Stroganov: 1st place in the Sculpture nomination among sculptors, 3rd place in the nomination "Head drawing/ capital", Moscow

2017   Сultural cooperation between Russia and Italy - "OPVS PRACTICVM" and participation in the competition in this project, Italy, G. Pietrasanta

• Nationality: RUSSIA
• Date of birth : unknown date
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• Groups: Russian Contemporary Artists