Exhibitions, awards and press

Every result below links to the organiser’s own published record. Where a listing is an editorial feature rather than an award, it is labelled as such.

Awards & placements

• Finalist, Portraiture, 18th International ARC Salon — “I Am Done”, 2024, oil on canvas. The competition drew over 3,500 entries from 72 countries; 816 works were named finalists. Source
• Tied 4th Place, Oil—Figure, 2024 World Art Awards — “The Young Mona”, 16 × 20 in, oil on wood. Source
• Tied 5th Place, Realism—Figure, 2024 World Art Awards — “I Am Done”, 16 × 20 in, oil on canvas. Source

Juried exhibitions

• Selected Artist, 30th Annual “All Florida” Juried Art Show, Arts Council of Martin County, 2020. Juror: Lisa Rockford.

Featured entries

• Featured Entry, Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award, 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize — “I Am Done”.
• Featured Painting Entry, 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize — “Inspired by Red”, 20 × 16 in, oil on wood.

Press

• VoyageTampa — March 12, 2024. Interview covering her route into painting: engineering, the makeup studios of Almaty, Moscow and Paris, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Almaty. Read
• The Mary Sue — June 16, 2021. Profiled the series placing contemporary figures into 1800s portrait conventions. Read
• Nerdist — June 17, 2021. Covered the historical portrait series and its range of subjects. Read
• Yahoo Entertainment — June 17, 2021. Syndication of the Nerdist feature.
• VoyageTampa — March 12, 2024. Long-form interview on the move from Kazakhstan to Florida and the studio practice. Read
• Trendy Art Ideas — October 22, 2020. First-person artist feature. Read