About Olesya Izmaylova
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Education
2022 - 2023
Svetlana Rumak art school
2022 - 2022
Alexandra Fedorova art school
2020 - 2021
ARTLIFE painting academy
2016 - 2018
Art residence “ArtLife”, Moscow, Russia
2015 - 2016
School of painting by Yulia Dubinina
2015 - 2016
Veronica Kalacheva's art school
2014 - 2016
Perotti art school
2001 - 2007
MSTU named by Bauman, Moscow, Russia
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Event: Reflections of Self: Freedom, Fashion, and Light
Dates: 31 Jan 2025 - 22 Feb 2025
This exhibition invites viewers on a unique journey through three key themes that shape my art: freedom, self-expression, and harmony. The series featuring sneakers and graffiti embodies the spirit of freedom, defiance of norms, and the celebration of individuality through street art. The series with cats explores fashion as a means of self-expression, highlighting the connection between personality and aesthetics. Finally, the series with light and women captures fleeting emotions, the beauty of moments, and the interplay between inner harmony and the beauty of the external world. It is a dialogue of freedom, style, and light, where everyone can find a reflection of their own self.
Biography
Olesya Izmaylova is a Contemporary Russian artist, based in Moscow. Her projects are grounded in personal experience, attentive observation, and the influence of social context.
Living between two countries (Russia and Finland) has shaped her sensitivity to themes of loss, transition, and the search for a “new home.” Olesya's visual language is built upon a system of symbols through which she explores ideas of human identity, inner grounding, and the balance between the personal and the social.
Working primarily with acrylic, she pays particular attention to texture, layering, and the gradual accumulation of meaning within the surface of the work.
The artist is interested in how everyday, seemingly insignificant details can become carriers of emotional memory, turning into part of the visual narrative. Through fragments of the body, footwear, and elements of urban texture, she investigates how identity is formed and reconstructed in conditions of constant change.
Olesya's works are held in private collections around the world — from Russia to the United Kingdom, from the USA to Japan.
