Elvira Pyrkova

Elvira Pyrkova is an artist, costume designer and portraitist living in the United Kingdom. She studied at the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum of the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute (МАХЛ РАХ бывш. МСХШ); the Gerasimov All-Russia State University of Cinematography (ВГИК). She lived ten years in Mexico and exhibited regularly in Mexico City and other important cities such as Monterrey, Puebla and Guanajuato; hers was the only entry by a foreign artist in the book 'Huella entre Milenios' which highlighted the work of modern Mexican artists of the turn of the century. In the United Kingdom her work has been featured in galleries and art fairs in cities like London, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Bournemouth, Birmingham and Stratford upon Avon. She was a finalist for the Garrick-Milne Prize; the painting short-listed for this award was exhibited and sold at Christie's London: a portrait of the famous Russian actor Innokenti Smoktunovsky. Her work was twice short-listed for the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists' Prize. Elvira Pyrkova's paintings are part of private collections in Japan, France, Germany, Russia, Mexico, Canada, the United States and Great Britain, as are paintings and commissioned portraits of select collecto...

МСХШ им.Томского при МГХИ им.В.И.Сурикова
VGIK Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2019 Opera Concert, Reception and Silent Auction / Mexican Embassy - London, United Kingdom
2016 ‘Allure’ Rossotrudnichestvo, Kensington, London
2015 'The Eternal Feminine', Rossotrudnichestvo Kensington, London
2015 Feminine Touch, Trinity Arts, Leeds UK
2014 RUSSIAN MINDSCAPES, Rossotrudnichestvo Kensington, London
2013 'Summer Remembered' Nati Gallery, London
2012 Aberford Interiors Gallery, Aberford, West Yorkshire
2011 Leeds Slavic Bazaar, Leeds, West Yorkshire
2005 Birmingham and Midlands Institute, Birmingham, West Midlands.
2000 HISTORIAS Y SUEÑOS El Centro Asturiano de México, A. C. Arquímides #4 Polanco México, D. F.
2000 RETROSPECTIVA "ELVIRA PYRKOVA" Escuela Superior de Comercio y Administración Instituto Politécnico Nacional Periférico Sur 4863 México, D. F.
2000 JARDIN DE LOS RECUERDOS PERDIDOS Fit-Biz Executive and Business Center Insurgentes Sur 1605 8o Piso México, D. F.
1998 PINTURA Y DIBUJO; OBRA ESCOGIDA Fit-Biz Executive and Business Center Insurgentes Sur 1605 8o Piso México, D. F.
1997 850 AÑOS DE MOSCU Plaza Loreto Rio Magdalena 46, San Angel México, D. F.
1997 MOTIVOS DE RUSIA Casino del Valle, Colonia del Valle Monterrey, N. L.
1996 SEGUNDA RETROSPECTIVA Galería Torre del Reloj,...