About Anastasia Borodina
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Education
2014 - 2019
Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
2012 - 2014
Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
2006 - 2011
Chelyabinsk Art College, Russia
Awards
2024
AMAFA
2019
Graduated with honour in the Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (Saint-Petersburg)
Upcoming events
Event: Manchester Art Fair
Dates: 21 Nov 2025 - 23 Nov 2025
With careful selection and bold curatorial vision, The Manchester Contemporary showcases the strength of the UK's regional artists and galleries alongside key international presentations exclusively in Manchester.
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Previous events
Event: The Almenara Art Prize Exhibition
Dates: 7 Nov 2025 - 30 Oct 2025
The Almenara Art Prize Exhibition is an international, juried exhibition in Córdoba, Spain, from November 7–30, 2025, at the Real Círculo de la Amistad. It showcases selected artworks from the larger Almenara Art Prize online competition and features around 40 pieces across various styles, from HyperRealism to Impressionism.
Event: Habitat & Heritage's Secret Art Auction
Dates: 29 Sep 2025 - 4 Oct 2025
The Secret Art Auction 2025 returns with an exciting opportunity to collect original postcard-sized artworks by established and emerging artists—anonymously. Hosted by Habitats & Heritage, the event supports local environmental and cultural initiatives.
Event: Voyages: Exhibition by Manchester Academy of fine Art (MAFA)
Dates: 2 Aug 2025 - 30 Aug 2025
MAFA MEMBERS EXHIBITION 2025 The Academy presents a second exhibition at the Cathedral following on from 'The Meditation of Drawing'. We are all voyagers in this changing world, expanding our knowledge, developing an appreciation of cultures, and shaping our understanding of the world and our place within it.? We each have our own perspectives, with the artists in 'Voyages' reflecting on their own relationship with the idea of the journey, its rewards, pleasures, and perils.
Event: New Light Art Summer Exhibition
Dates: 8 Jul 2025 - 1 Aug 2025
New Light’s first Summer Exhibition took place in the 1912 Mill at Sunny Bank Mills. It is now over.
Sunny Bank is only 4 miles away from Bradford City which is celebrating its City of Culture 2025 status and is, of course, playing host to the Turner Prize. We’re aimed to extend the focus on the North’s artistic talent with this exhibition.
Event: Art on a Postcard Summer Auction
Dates: 17 Jun 2025 - 1 Jul 2025
Art on a Postcard's (AOAP) summer auction is a must for art lovers keen to cash in on the current trend for miniature art. The auction is in aid of The Hepatitis C Trust, which is on course to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030 and has announced an exciting development in a move toward using its valuable resources, especially the peer model, which works exceptionally well for individuals who are less likely to receive NHS care. In just five years, they have engaged over 300,000 people considered "hard to reach" by the health service and supported more than 15,000 into treatment. These individuals require assistance with more than just hepatitis C.
Event: COMME CA Summer Exhibition
Dates: 14 May 2025 - 15 Jul 2025
Anastasia Borodina and Olga Mun are two international artists who have made Manchester their home. Both artists have studied Fine Art, bringing their classical painting training into their works with a modern and contemporary twist. Both artists are proving to be popular with Comme Ca Art's collectors, and we look forward to working with both artists over the coming years to see how they further develop their artistic style.
Event: Connecting Spaces a Manchester Craft and Design Centre exhibition in collaboration with AWOL Studios
Dates: 12 Apr 2025 - 23 Aug 2025
CONNECTING SPACES is an exhibition in collaboration with AWOL Studios, our creative neighbours in the heart of Ancoats. Housed in the stunning Grade II* listed Hope Mill, built in 1824, AWOL Studios provides space for creatives to thrive. We asked AWOL Studios artists to respond to the theme CONNECTING SPACES and selected work which demonstrated the importance of location, local relationships and the environment.
Manchester’s creative spaces are more than just buildings—they’re communities. Whether it’s the echoes of our industrial past in the architecture or the shared spirit of the artists within them, we believe in supporting each other and championing local creativity. This exhibition is a celebration of that shared heritage and the artists who make this city so special.
Event: ROI Annual Exhibition 2024
Dates: 28 Nov 2024 - 14 Dec 2024
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition has a well-earned reputation for attracting talented young exhibitors, alongside more established member artists.
The exhibition gives visitors the opportunity to see the many ways that artists use oil paint today, from traditional approaches to more innovative uses of material, style, and content.
Expect a special display on the theme of ‘EAT’, which has been interpreted widely by exhibitors, one of whom will win The ROI Themed Painting Prize for their interpretation.
Event: COMME CA Winter Exhibition
Dates: 21 Nov 2024 - 21 Jan 2025
The "COME SEE COMME CA" Winter Exhibition typically refers to the seasonal exhibitions hosted by the Manchester-based art gallery Comme Ca Art at various locations, such as The Lowry Hotel and AWOL Studios.
Event: Connections: Exhibition by Manchester Academy of fine Art (MAFA)
Dates: 23 Aug 2024 - 13 Sep 2024
The "Connections" exhibition by the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts (MAFA) was a collaborative show held at the Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery from August. The exhibition featured works by both MAFA academicians and recent graduates from the Manchester School of Art, celebrating the institution's 200th anniversary.
Event: The Gallery & Stone Summer Exhibition 2024
Dates: 30 Jul 2024 - 30 Aug 2024
Green & Stone, an internationally acclaimed art shop, launched its gallery in 2018. Since then, the gallery has held two annual open calls to discover and showcase emerging talent.
The Gallery prides itself on being the starting point for many artists’ journeys toward success. It focuses on emerging artists with remarkable talent and potential, featuring unique, contemporary, and affordable artwork. The growing community around the gallery is a testament to the effectiveness of its model. The Gallery aims to create a space that serves as a vital resource for artists, collectors, and the broader artistic community.
Event: DON'T PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD
Dates: 6 Jul 2024 - 1 Sep 2024
Recently, the media portrayal of food has been damning; from breakdowns in global supply chains to more households experiencing food insecurity, the public perception of food is grim.
Artists have long used food as a stimulus for their work and to hold a mirror up to society. Creating meaning with the humble cabbage and transforming simple things such as bread and milk into timeless works of art. This exhibition sees a collection of artists, chefs and craftspeople share the gallery to celebrate how playful, gross and delicious food can be.
Event: New Light Prize Exhibition 2023-24
Dates: 30 Sep 2023 - 31 Dec 2024
Established in 2010, New Light celebrates and promotes Northern art, supporting both well-known and emerging artists by offering some of the region’s best awards and opportunities with the biennial New Light Prize Exhibition.
Through the New Light Collection, we aim to make the best in Northern visual arts available to more people by loaning pieces from the Collection free of charge to public bodies and charities. This results in more people experiencing the thrill of having art of the highest quality displayed on their walls.
30th September – 22nd December 2023
Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
27th February – 3rd March 2024
Bankside Gallery, Southbank
15th March – 2nd June 2024
Rheged Arts Centre, Penrith
29th June – 22nd September 2024
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
12th October – 31st December 2024
The Mercer Art Gal
Event: Chelsea art Society Summer Exhibition
Dates: 14 Jun 2023 - 19 Jun 2023
74th Annual Summer Exhibition of the Chelsea Arts Society. The Chelsea Art Society is the oldest and sole survivor of the many art groups that blossomed in the area around that period. Rossetti and Turner began the trend to settle in Chelsea in the mid-19th Century, followed by Whistler, Sickert, Augustus John and John Singer Sargent.
Event: RA Summer Exhibition
Dates: 13 Jun 2023 - 20 Aug 2023
Run without interruption since 1769, the Summer Exhibition is our annual celebration of art and artists.
This year, renowned British painter David Remfry RA takes the reins as exhibition co-ordinator. Remfry’s Summer Exhibition explores the theme Only Connect, taken from the famous quote in Howards End by E.M. Forster.
Among the 1,614 featured works you will find towering sculptures by the late Phyllida Barlow RA, Richard Malone’s dramatic mobile installation in the Wohl Central Hall, and a witty painting by comedian Joe Lycett. Plus pieces by Tracey Emin RA, Hew Locke RA, Barbara Walker RA, Gavin Turk, Lindsey Mendick, Caroline Walker and much, much more.
Event: Comme ca Art x AWOL Studios (Manchester)
Dates: 1 May 2023 - 31 May 2023
Selected for the Open Call Comme ca Art gallery exhibition at AWOL Studios
Event: Bath Society of Arts Annual Open Exhibition
Dates: 22 Apr 2023 - 24 Jun 2023
In its 118th year, this exhibition showcases the best of the region’s artistic talent through many different forms, including paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. Many distinguished 20th-century painters have exhibited with the Society in the past, including Walter Sickert, Mary Fedden and Howard Hodgkin.
Event: NEAC Annual Exhibition 2022
Dates: 23 Jun 2022 - 9 Jul 2022
The New English Art Club exhibits the very best in figurative, observational and painterly work in the UK.
Showcasing paintings, drawings, and prints from its elected members alongside work by emerging artists whose ethos reflects its own: informed by the visual world and personal interpretation, while underpinned by drawing.
Founded in the 19th Century, the New English traces its history through artists as diverse as Stanley Spencer, David Bomberg, Vanessa Bell and Gwen John. More recent exhibitors include Royal Academicians such as Humphrey Ocean, Anthony Green and Anthony Eyton.
Event: NEAC Annual Exhibition 2021
Dates: 25 Jun 2021 - 3 Jul 2021
The New English Art Club exhibits the very best in figurative, observational and painterly work in the UK.
Showcasing paintings, drawings, and prints from its elected members alongside work by emerging artists whose ethos reflects its own: informed by the visual world and personal interpretation, while underpinned by drawing.
Founded in the 19th Century, the New English traces its history through artists as diverse as Stanley Spencer, David Bomberg, Vanessa Bell and Gwen John. More recent exhibitors include Royal Academicians such as Humphrey Ocean, Anthony Green and Anthony Eyton.
Event: Annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Dates: 6 May 2021 - 15 May 2021
There is always so much to enjoy in this exhibition, from the faces depicted in the portraits, both famous and unfamiliar, to the wide variety of high-quality paintings. It is a celebration of the very best in contemporary portraiture nationally and internationally.
Unlike other portrait exhibitions, it is rigorously selected by professional portrait painters who themselves have been elected by their peers to the Society. It is one of the world’s most extensive contemporary portrait exhibitions forming a showcase of some 200 works.
Event: NEAC Annual Exhibition 2020
Dates: 7 Dec 2020 - 15 Dec 2020
The exhibition showcases paintings, drawings and prints from our elected members alongside work by emerging artists whose ethos reflects its own: informed by the visual world and personal interpretation, while underpinned by drawing.
Event: Annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP)
Dates: 9 May 2019 - 14 Jun 2019
Really nice event in the centre of London. I took part with the full-length portrait of the girl (https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/royal-society-portrait-painters-annual-exhibit ion-2019/music-night).
Event: Annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers
Dates: 28 Nov 2018 - 9 Dec 2018
It was a quite large and prestigious exhibition at the centre of London and my first experience with the miniature painting. https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Self-portrait-with-carnation/1431845/7303601/view
Event: “The Youth of Russia”, All-Russian Biennale for Young Art
Dates: 22 Apr 2016 - 12 May 2016
It was a large all-Russian biennale of fine arts. I have participated as a part of Saint-Petersburg's' team.
Biography
Anastasia Borodina is a contemporary artist whose paintings unite the timeless discipline of classical realism with a modern emotional sensibility. Born in the North Caucasus, she grew up surrounded by the region's rich cultural diversity — an influence that continues to shape her artistic vision. Anastasia graduated with honours from the prestigious Ilya Repin Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, where she studied under the acclaimed master Yuri Kalyuta, one of the leading figures of the Russian academic school.
Her artworks have been exhibited internationally, including at several Royal Societies in London, the Portrait Society of America (USA), and the Almenara Collection (Spain). Her paintings now reside in private collections throughout Europe, the United States, and New Zealand, reflecting her growing recognition among collectors worldwide.
Now based in Manchester, United Kingdom, Anastasia continues to evolve her distinctive visual language. In recognition of her artistic contribution, she was elected Member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts (MAFA) in 2024.