Veronica Smirnoff British, b. 1979

Born 1979, Moscow

Lives and works in London

 

Education

 

2004-2007      Royal Academy of Arts - Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art

1999-2004      Slade School of Fine Art, UCL - BA in Fine Art with 1st Class Honours

1998-1999     Wimbledon School of Art - BTEC Foundation Diploma in Fine Art and Design

 

Prizes, Scholarships and Awards

 

 

2006

Alumni Award, Royal Academy of Arts

2005

Boundary Prize

2004

Terence Cuneo Prize by HRH Princess Royal

2003

Rodney Burn Prize in Fine Art

2001-02

Scholarship to the Academy of Fine Arts inVienna

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

 

2018

Tales of Bright and Brittle, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan

2017

The Greater and Lesser Ways, Jessica Carlisle, London

2013

Beyond The Shore, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan

2012

The Madding Spring, Vela Gallery, London

2010

Zhar, Stanislas Bourgain Gallery, Paris

2008

Morozka, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

 

2019

Heat, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice

2019

Walking Dream, MiArt, Milan

2018

Painting Now 2, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan

2016

Sting & Trudie Styler: The Composition of a Collection Christie's, London

2015

Painting Now, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan

 

2014              

 Would Be Worlds, Erarta Gallery, London Walls, Pushkin House, London FROWARD, Eton College, Eton

Renewal of the Sacred, House of the Nobleman, London

The Future Can Wait, The Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4's New Sensations, London 2013        Everywhere ButNow, 4 Thessaloniki Biennale, Greek Museum of Contemporary Art,

Thessaloniki

 

2012               

Dreaming Beauties, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan

Opulant Vision, Group Show, FORD Projects Gallery, New York 2011       The Return, House Of The Nobleman, London

Allegory, Salon Vert Gallery, London

 

2010               

John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool BRIC Theme Auction, Saatchi Gallery, London

 

2009               

Women To Watch, Christie's, London

(Self )Portrait of a Lady, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan RA Sotheby's Auction, London

Contemporary Art Society, Gothic Auction, Sotheby's London 2008       RXArt, New York

Invasion/Evasion, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow Sotheby's Charity Auction, London

Royal Academy of Art, London

Passed As Present, York Art Gallery, York

 

2007               

The End Begins: The Lodeveans Collection, The Hospital Gallery, London The Royal Academy of Art, London

MiArt Fair, Milan

 

2006               

TGU, Zoo Art Fair, London

Lenin Lovers, CuratorSpace Gallery, London Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London

 

2005               

TGU, Zoo Art Fair, London

Baroquerocks, Espace Brochage Express, Paris Center of Contemporary Art Moscow

 

2004               

18-45, Tascheles Gallery, Berlin

 

Collections

Royal Academy, London