Tatyana Nazarenko

Professor Tatyana Grigorievna Nazarenko (Russian: Татьяна Григорьевна Назаренко, born 24 June 1944) is one of the leading Russian contemporary painters. She was born in Moscow where she still lives and works.

About her work

Her early works "Execution of the Narodniks" (320x325 cm, 1972, Collection of the Russian Museum St. Petersburg; “Decembrists. Uprising of the Chernigov regiment” (160x180 cm, 1978, Collection State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; “Partisans have come" (160x120 cm, 1975, Collection State Tretyakov Gallery); "Moscow Evening" (160x180 cm, 1978, Collection State Tretyakov Gallery) and "Pugachof" (180x300 cm, 1980, Collection of the Museum Arbat-Prestige, Moscow) gained her recognition for innovative reflection of present reality in contemporary painting.

She later moved on to reflect the political changes and economic impact thereof in her exhibition "Transition", an installation of over 120 life-size figures (exhibition in 1996 in the Central House of Artists, Moscow).

She is an artist who continues to search for new ways to reflect the changing world around her, and who regularly surprises her spectators with new techniques such as the installation "Transition"; or in 2004 an exhibition featuring sculptured full-size figures along with traditional painting in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow; in 2006 a large installation "Explosion" using full-size polyurethane foam figures at the "Vanishing Reality" exhibition in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (in the ,exhibition visitor's album it was written that "children should not be allowed to see this nightmare" and "an exhibition for schizophrenics" which provoked the artist's comment that she is only reflecting the world around her), while in adjoining halls a selection of her career's works was on show; and in 2008 a video-art project. Meanwhile, she continues painting on canvas in a distinct and recognizable manner.

Olga Thomson says of her: "Scandalous and provocative as her latest works are, they testify to the feeling of tragedy that haunts the artist living in today’s world."

Credentials

• Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts
• Professor with responsibility for a painting workshop at the Surikov Institute in Moscow
• Was awarded several Government and Academic Awards
• Received the Independent Triumph Award for 2008 for her contribution to Art and Culture.

Further reading

• Thomson, Olga; Semenov, Sergei (2008), Tatyana Nazarenko, Graphics/ Paintings 2008, Moscow: Mixail Korotaev, p. 94
• Borovsky, Alexander; Stepanian, Nonna; Orlov, Vladimir; Yaroshenko, Viktor; et al. (2006), Evgenia Petrova (ed.), Vanishing Reality, St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, p. 227, ISBN 3-938051-55-8, archived from the original on 2013-04-18, retrieved 2009-07-22
• Thomson, Olga (2004), Tatyana Nazarenko, Monograph, St. Petersburg, p. 284, ISBN 5-9649-0001-1, retrieved 2009-07-22{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Nazarenko, Tatyana; Gertsman, Alexandre; Pace University., Patricia O. Ewers Center for the Arts & (Washington, D.C.), Fondo del Sol Visual Arts and Media Center (2002), Tatyana Nazarenko : my Russia., Art Press, p. 45, ISBN 9781889948072
• Morozov, Alexander Ilitsch & Crowfoot, John (2002), Tatyana Nazarenko, Leningrad: Aurora, p. 28, ISBN 9785730002647
• Baigell, Renée & Baigell, Matthew (2001), Peeling potatoes, painting pictures: women artists in post-Soviet Russia, Estonia, and Latvia : the first decade, Rutgers University Press, pp. 40–44, ISBN 9780813529462, retrieved 2009-07-22
• Art Center College of Design, (Pasadena, Calif.) & Patsukov, Vitaly (State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia) (1998), Forbidden art: the postwar Russian avant-garde, Curatorial Assistance, Inc., pp. 13–15, 299, ISBN 978-1-881616-91-7, retrieved 2009-07-22{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• George, Alexandra (1998), Escape from "Ward six": Russia facing past and present, University Press of America, pp. 287–289, ISBN 9780761811398
• Gertsman, Alexandre (1997), Tatyana Nazarenko: transition, New York: Saupra, p. 32, ISBN 9781889948034
• Isaak, Jo Anna (1996), Feminism and contemporary art: the revolutionary power of women's laughter, Routledge, pp. 100–102, ISBN 9780415080156, retrieved 2009-07-22
• Cullerne Bown, Matthew & Taylor, Brandon (1993), Art of the Soviets: painting, sculpture, and architecture in a one-party state, 1917-1992, Moscow: Manchester University Press ND, pp. 174–180, ISBN 9780719037351, retrieved 2009-07-22

External links

• Personal Website
• Central House of Artists, Moscow
• Credentials and Biography