Nina Valetova

Nina Valetova (Russian: Нина Валетова)
File:Selfportrait 74x66 (cmxcm) 2010.JPG Self-Portrait, 2010
Born	(1958-11-19)19 November 1958 Berdjash, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
Education	Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute
Known for	Painting
Movement	metaphysical realism, fantasy, visionary
Website	Official web site

Nina Petrovna Valetova (or Nina Tokhtaman Valetova, Russian: Нина Петровна Валетова, or Нина Тохтаман Валетова) (November 13, 1958 – ) is a Russian metaphysical realism painter.

Nina Valetova was born in Berdjash, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, and graduated as a Specialist from the Faculty of Arts and Graphics of Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute in Ufa. She immigrated to the United States in 1993.

Works in public collections

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

• Time of Change, 2002
• Labyrinth, 2001
• Reflection, 1998
• Mutants, 2001

Chuvash State Art Museum, Cheboksary, Russia

• Night, 2000
• Ancient Epics of Ancestors, 2008
• Call of Ancestors, 2008

Novocheboksarsk Art Museum, Novocheboksarsk, Russia

• Amazin, 2009

Omsk Center of Contemporary Art, Omsk, Russia

• Negotiation, 2000

Exhibitions

• 2011 Artinvest Torre della Filanda, "Arte Genova 2011", Fiera di Genova, Genova (Genoa), Italy

Other artists of gallery: Vassily Kandinsky, Alexandra Exter, Ottone Rosai

Exhibited together with Amedeo Modigliani, Andy Warhol, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Victor Vasarely

• 2011 Vernissage, Artinvest SRL Torra della Filanda, Rivoli, Torino (Turin), Italy
• 2010-2011 "From history to contemporary", jma Gallery / N Gallery / Euro-Asian Art and Culture Organization, Wien (Vienna), Austria

Exhibited together with Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall, Victor Vasarely, Lucas Cranach

• 2009 Fashion District Art Show, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• 2009 "Metamorphosis", Agora Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• 2009 "Zolotoj Venec" ("Golden Tiara"), Chuvash State Art Museum, Cheboksary, Russia
• 2006 World Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• 2001 "ArtManege 2001", Manege, Moskva (Moscow), Russia
• 2001 "Zolotaja Kist' 2001" ("Golden Brush 2001"), New Manege, Moskva (Moscow), Russia
• 1995 Arthaus Gallery, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
• 1990-1991 Boulevard Galerie, Kopnhavn (Copenhagen), Denmark
• 1983 Republican Young Artists' Exhibition, Ufa, Russia

First exhibition

Albums

• 2009 2009 International Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Casa Editrice Alba, Ferrara, Italy
• 2002 Russian Artistic Guide 2002, London Contemporary Art, London, U.K.

Articles

• 2009 "Nina Valetova", ArtisSpectrum, Volume 21, New York, NY, USA
• 2003 "World from the Other Side", Sergey Kuskov
• 2001 "Alternative Worlds of Nina Valetova", Sergey Kuskov

Catalogs

• 2009 Sourcebook to the Art World 2009 Guide, Art in America
• 2006 "Unified Artists Catalog", Edition 12, Volume 1, Professional Artists Union, Moskva (Moscow), Russia, 1996

External links

• Official web site