Olga Shirokova

Olga Shirokova
Was born in Solikamsk, Russia.
Graduated from the Nizhny Tagil Pedagogical Institute, painting & graphik faculty.
Has participated exhibitions in Russia and abroad since 1997.
Lives and works in St.-Petersburg.
The artist`s works can be found in private and corporate collections in Russia and other countries.


The painter Olga Shirokova is not realist. But her fantastik images - castles and her princesses, mysterious distances and ships, strange vessels of irregular "alive" form filled with exotic fruits and many other things, for which it is difficult at once to find names, are absolutely real in her works. The images of works fancifully appear from delicate substance of her lively imagination. They influence magnetically on spectator, draw into picturesque whirling of decorative colour spots, into magic beauty of different undertints, hues and fragile brittle lines. Forms, lines and colour spots, as if catching up by whirlwind, rush on their own trajectories known only them. They exist according to their own laws and rules, and submit only to author`s fantasy. The graduate of Nizhny Tagil school, Olga Shirokova demonstrates peculiar to the graduates of this school decorative methods, graphic culture and ex...

Art school, Solikamsk, Russia, 1988-1993. The Pedagogical Institute, at art and graphic faculty, Nizhniy Tagil, Russia, 1993-1998.

2018 - «Art Datcha, le carrousel de Saint-Petersbourg», Bordeaux, France.
2017 - «Art Datcha, le carrousel de Saint-Petersbourg», Erquy, France.
2016 - «Edinburgh Art Fair», The Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2016 – «Artists of St.-Petersburg», «Marine House», Seaton, Devon, United Kingdom.
2016 – «Red Gate/Against the stream - 2016», IV interregional academic exhibition-competition, Russia.
2016 - «Cambridge Art Fair», Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2016 – «Era of antiquity», Exhibition center «Krestovsky island», Library of the Kirov islands, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
2016 – «Spring-2016», Exhibition center Saint-Petersburg Union of artist, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
2016 – «Art-Perm 2016», 18 international exhibition, Perm, Russia.
2016 – «Francis Iles Galleries Quarterly Collection», Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom.
2015 – «Exhibition in the Smolny», Smolny administration building, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
2015 – «Membership in the Union of artist», Exhibition center St.-Petersburg Union of artist, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
2014 - Personal exhibition, "Tioindigo" art-gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
2013 – «Art week», Exhibition center Saint-Petersburg Union of artist, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
2013 - Per...