About her Art
ARINA GORDIENKO is an internationally acclaimed figurative realist artist, based in the UK. She was born in the most north-easterly region of Russia, in a small gold-mining settlement in Chukotka, part of the polar Arctic desert ‘tundra’, now she lives in the UK. Her art education include MA in Painting (Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London), BA in Fine Art (Central Saint Martins College of Art in London) and Distinction Certificate in Fine Art (Art College, part-time, Russia)
She is recognised with numerous international prizes and awards in the UK, USA and Europe. Her paintings featured at Saatchi Gallery in London (UK), MEAM - European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona (Spain), Museum of Fantastic Art in Vienna (Austria), Museum of Modern Art Vittoria Colonna in Pescara (Italy), Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in the US, Rehs Contemporary Galleries in New York (USA), Mall Galleries in London and many others in the UK, USA, Australia, Spain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Check Republic, Belgium and India.
Her paintings published in many art books, catalogues and magazines, including the ‘Strokes of Genius’ Art Books (Edition 4 & 6) in the US, the MEAM ‘Painting Today’ catalogue in Barcelona, Spain, the ‘Figurative Realism’ Special Issue of the PoetsArtists Magazine in the US, the Reinhard Fuchs’ art book ‘Masterpieces of Visual Arts - The Great Female Artists from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era’, the ‘Masters of Contemporary Fine Art’ and ‘Masters of Painting’ in the UK.
Arina is an Associate Living Master of the prestigious Art Renewal Center in the US, a member of Portrait Society of America and a selected member of Society of Women Artists in the UK.
Arina is dedicated to realistic traditions in painting. She developed her own recognisable style combining traditional classical techniques with realistic yet imaginative and often surreal compositions and contemporary palette.
Awards & Achievements (selected)
2019
- Derwent Special Fine Art Award, awarded by HRH Princess Michael of Kent, SWA
Annual, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2019 - Finalist, 14th International ARC
Salon Competition, Art Renewal Center, USA
2018 - Finalist, Portrait Society of America Members Only Competition, Non-Commissioned Portrait
2018 - Finalist, 13th International ARC Salon Competition, Art Renewal Center, USA
2017
- Finalist, 12th International ARC Salon Competition, Art Renewal
Center, USA
2016 - Awarded the ARC Associate Living Master Status and Included to the Art
Renewal Centre Museum, USA
2016 - Winner of Major 2nd Place Award, Berliner Art Prize, Germany
2016 - Honorary Diploma for ‘bright and remarkable contribution in the conservation and development of the artistic values in Modern Art’, Berliner Art Prize, Germany
2016 - Finalist, Portrait Society of America Only Members Competition, USA
2016 - Finalist, The Artist's Magazine 33 Annual Art Competition, Portraits/Figures category, USA
2015 -
Winner, 'Strokes of Genius-7: Depth, Dimension and Space' Drawing Competition,
USA
2014 - Winner, 3d Place Award, 'Outside the Box', Portrait Society of America
Members Only Competition, USA
2013 - Winner, Gold Award - Master of Art International, Margarita Feaks
Gallery, London, UK
2013 - Finalist, Mortimore Art Prize, Surrealism Category, Australia
2012 - Winner, Special Award, OSTEN World Gallery and Museum of Drawing
Biennale, Skopje, Macedonia
2012 - Winner, 2nd Merit Award, 'Outside the Box', Portrait Society of America
Members Competition, USA
2012 - Winner, 4th Merit Award, 'Self-Portrait' category, Portrait Society of
America Members Competition
2011 - Winner. Strokes of Genius-4: Best of Drawing, 'Exploring Line', Drawing
Competition, USA
2010 - Finalist (Top 10 out of 1650 entries), Art of Giving Competition,
SAATCHI Gallery, London, UK
2010 - Finalist, The Best Foreign Artist Mention, Arte Laguna Art Prize, Venice
Arsenale, Italy
2010 - Winner, Trophy Award, LICC-2010 (top 15 out of over 5000 submissions
from 95 countries), London, UK
2009 - Shortlisted (top 100 out of 1900 entries),
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK 'Silence, Opus 3' made
through to the second round of selection
2009 -
Winner, MFA Now Award, International Painting Competition, Miami - New York,
USA
2009 - Winner, 1st Place Award, Full Brush Competition, Pen and Brush Gallery,
New York, USA
2009 - Winner, 2 nd Prize Award, Portrait/Figure category, The Artist's
Magazine, USA
2008 - Winner, Anthony J. Lester Art Critic Award, SWA Annual exhibition, Mall
Galleries. London, UK
2008 - Winner, 1st Prize (out of 14.000 entries) Portrait/Figure Students
category, The Artist's Magazine, USA
2008 - Winner, Public Choice Prize, NOAC National Open Art Competition, London,
UK
2008 - Winner, Visitor's Choice Award, Cork Street International Art
Competition, London, UK
2008 - Finalist, The RBSA Portrait Award, Biennale, Birmingham, UK
2008 - Shortlisted
(Top 100 out of 1650 entries), BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, UK.
'Angel, Portrait of Angelica' has been through the
second round of selection
Exhibitions (brief selection)
2019 – Artelibre Gallery, ‘Something More Than Realism’, Zaragoza, Spain
2019 - Mall Galleries, ‘SWA Annual’, Opened by Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent, London, UK.
Also – 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.
2019 – Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘International Biennial Portrait Competition’, WI, USA
2019 – Rehs Contemporary Galleries, ‘I Observe’, New York, USA
2019
– MEAM - European Museum of Modern Art, ‘Painting Today’, curator Didi
Menendez, Barcelona, Spain
2018 – Figurative Realism, curated by Dirk Dzimirsky and Didi Menendez,
exclusive online exhibition
2017 – ‘Art For a Little Brave Heart’ Fund-raising for Charity ‘Gift of Life, Rossotrudnichsetvo, London, UK
2017 - MAG Montreux Art Gallery, ‘FIRST MAG
Visionary Art’, Switzerland, with HR Giger, Ernst Fuchs, De Es Schwertberger,
Martina Hoffmann, Brigid Marlin, Roku Sasaki
2016 - Museum of Modern Art Vittoria Colonna, ‘Biennale PESCARART’, Pescara,
Italy
2015 - Phantastishe Venus Biennale, Viechtag, Germany
2015 - Museum Complex of Dioscuri, ‘ITINERA Contemporary Art’, Gall'Art Roma,
Rome, Italy.
2014 - Rebecca Cossack Gallery, ‘Gemini Art Prize’, London, UK
2013-2014 - Mortimore Art Prize ‘The very best in Realism’ Touring: Sydney,
Brisbane, Canberra etc., Australia
2013 - Solo-Exhibition 'ARINA - The Theatre Of One Artist', 20th Century
Theatre, Notting Hill, London, UK
2013 - Master of Art International Exhibition, Art Pavilion Gallery, London, UK
2013 - Gallery of Art Critics (Adria Palace), Exhibition of Awarded Artists of
World Gallery of Drawing, Prague
2013 - Museum Sant'Oreste, ‘International Exhibition of Contemporary Art’,
Gall'Art Roma, Rome, Italy
2012 - Museum of Fantastic Art, ‘Uncommon Vision’, Vienna, Austria
2012 - Mall Galleries, 'Show me the Monet' of BBC2 series, London, UK
2012 - Museum of Drawing, ‘OSTEN Award Biennale’, Skopje, Macedonia
2010 - SAATCHI Gallery, 'Art of Giving', with Sir Piter Blake, Banksy, Gavin
Turk, Alexa Meade, London, UK
2010 - Venice Arsenale, 'Arte Laguna Art Prize', Venice, Italy
2010 - Marziart Gallery, 'Best of 2010' International’, Hamburg, Germany
2009 - Pen and Brush Gallery, ‘Fall Brush Exhibition, New York, USA
2009 - Praxis Art International Gallery, 'MFA Now' Award Winner's Exhibition,
Miami, USA
2008 - The First Biennale RBSA Open Portrait Award, Birmingham, UK