Natalia Lapotko

Natalia Lapotko is an artist and painter. She lives and works in London.

She studied History at the University of Cambridge, which significantly shaped her interest in historical themes and imagery in art. She continued her artistic training at a number of institutions, including the Royal Drawing School in London and The Florence Academy of Art in Florence.

Lapotko works primarily in painting, combining oil with pastels, markers and graphic elements. Her work draws on archetypal imagery and symbols, exploring their relationship with the human experience.

She has participated in group exhibitions in London and Moscow, including Exhibition No. 5 at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow in 2013. In 2021, her painting Sanduny received the Audience Choice Award at a group exhibition at Neglinnaya Gallery in Moscow. Her work has also been featured in AD Russia.

Her work is held in private collections in London, Miami, Moscow, New York, St Petersburg and Zurich.

2019–2020 — Intensive Drawing and Painting Programme, St. Petersburg Art Academy, Florence Branch

2019 — Art Training, Ilya Repin Academy, Florence

2017 — Figure Painting and Portraiture Workshop, The Florence Academy of Art, Florence

2016–2017 — Drawing and Life Drawing Courses, Royal Drawing School, London

2001–present — Mentorship with artist Svetlana Gorina, Moscow

2009–2010 — MPhil, Political Thought and Intellectual History, University of Cambridge

2006–2009 — BA (Hons) History, University of Cambridge

2022 — Duo Exhibition with Oksana Klip, The Koppel Project, Old Bond Street, London

2021 — Group Exhibition, Drawing Neglinnaya, Neglinnaya Gallery, Moscow

2019 — End-of-Year Exhibition, Palazzo di Cosimo Ridolfi, Florence

2018 — Solo Exhibition, Gallery Extreme, London

2018 — Memories, Group Exhibition, The Union Ludgate, London

2017 — Solo Exhibition, Gallery Extreme, London

2017 — Indulge, Group Exhibition, The Union Ludgate, London

2016 — Viva, Group Exhibition, The Union Ludgate, London

2013 — Solo Exhibition, Russian Legal Forum (Vedomosti), Ritz-Carlton, Moscow

2013 — Exhibition No. 5, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

2002 — Art Manege, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow

2002 — Exhibitions organised by Russian Art Help, Russian Embassy in London and British Embassy in Moscow