Education

B.F.A. Samara College of Fine Arts, Samara, Russia (4-year program).
M.F.A. Institute of Art and Industrial Design, formerly Stroganoff School of Applied Arts, Moscow, Russia (5-year program).

Solo Exhibitions

2020"Route 66 Blues", Mill Valley Community Center, Mill Valley, CA. Feb 1−28, 2020.
2019"New Works", Cafe Borrone, Menlo Park, CA. Oct 10 − Nov 24, 2019.
2018"Desert Ghosts", Mountain View Center for Performing Arts, Mountain View, CA. June 9, 2018 − August 13, 2018.
2011"Metaphysics of Landscape", Samara Regional Museum of Art, Samara, Russia.
2009"Game of Life", Vavilon gallery, Samara, Russia.
2008Works on Paper, Stanford University, Tresidder Memorial Union, CA. Curator: Jeannette Smith-Lows.
"Multifaceted Vision", Mill Valley City Hall, Mill Valley, CA. Curator: Joan Steidinger.
2007Floral Retrospective, presented by Terra Nova magazine, San Jose, CA.
"Water and Rocks", Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR. Curator: Tommi Drake, director of Art Department.
"Water and Rocks", Maturango Museum, Sylvia Winslow Gallery, Ridgecrest, CA. Curator: Rosemary Lackaye.
2006"One Kid Show", UC Berkeley YWCA, Berkeley, CA. Curators: Fannie Jeffrey, Sarah Knox-Miyazaki.
1999Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA.
1996Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA.
1995"Still Life and Landscapes", Borders Books and Music, Wayne, NJ.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024"Interiors: views from the inside", Apr 4 − 22, STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
The Community Art Auction, Mar 16 − Apr 6, Works / San Jose, San Jose, CA.
"Beach", Mar 7 − 25, STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
"Women Rising", Feb 24 − Mar 24, The Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA.
"Home", Jan 13 − Feb 11, The Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA.
Auction for San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, Feb 22 − 25, STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
The (Anti) Valentine Show, Jan 27 − Feb 17, Works / San Jose, San Jose, CA.
2023"Tiny", Nov 3 − Dec 23, STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
"50|50 Show", Sept 8 − Oct 1, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA. Juror: Marianna Stark.
"Color of Water", February 11 - March 26, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA. Juror: Lori Austin.
2022Salon at the Triton 2022, Individual Award of Recognition by Angela Holmes, Juror. August 13 - September 14, Triton Museum of Art Statewide 2D Art Competition & Exhibition, Santa Clara, CA. Curator: Preston Metcalf
"Artists for Ukraine", charitable show. April 24, Samovar Hall, Mountain View, CA
2020"Small Works", November 13 − December 27, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
2019"Winter National Juried Exhibition", Marin MoCA, Novato, CA
Works Members Exhibition, July 27 -- August 18, Works / San José, San Jose, CA
"Byzantium-Constantinople-Istanbul", Minima Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Curators: Umit Bek, N. Georgadze.
"In Vino Veritas", Minima Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Curator: N. Georgadze.
"50 Shades of Red", Minima Gallery, Moscow, Russia. Curator: N. Georgadze.
2017November 11, 2017 − February 04, 2018. Statewide 2D Competition & Exhibition, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA. Jurors: Cherri Lakey, Brian Eder.
"Here", BAC Artists Annual Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA.
"The (Anti) Valentine Show", Works / San José, San Jose, CA.
2016International Art Show "Red and Black" at Gallery Na Kashirke, Moscow, Russia, March 8 − April 10. Curators: Natalie Georgadze and Anastasia Martynova.
The BAC Artists Annual Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA Part 1: December 5, 2015 - January 17, 2016
2015"Collect!", Berkeley Art Center, CA, Sept 12 − 26.
"East-West", Gallery Na Kashirke, Moscow, Russia, August 5 − 30. Curator: Natalie Georgadze.
2014"Dark", Arc Gallery & Studios, San Francisco, CA, November 8 − December 6. Juror: Nancy Toomey.
"Impulse", Arc Gallery & Studios, San Francisco, CA, January 18 − February 1.
"Choice", Arc Gallery & Studios, San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2013 − January 12, 2014. Juror: Catharine Clark.
2013"RISK!", Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA. Jurors: Apsara DiQuinzio and Kimberly Johansson.
"Black & White", Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA. Juror: George Rivera, director, Triton Museum.
Project "Experiments in Graphics", Central Artist's Hall, Moscow, Russia. Curators: Natalie Georgadze, Irina Meleshkevich.
Apil in Paris Gala at the Triton Museum of Art.
Crocker-Kingsley exhibition at Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA. Juror: Michael Duncan, corresponding editor for Art in America.
2012"Plenty", The Gallery at Fibre Arts Design, Palo Alto, CA.
Fall National Juried Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA. Juror: Renny Pritikin.
"Face Me", Sebastopol Center For The Arts, Sebastopol, CA. Juror: Carlos Merino de Villasante.
"Travel Time: East/West", Central Artist's Hall, Moscow, Russia. Curator: Natalie Georgadze.
"20 Years in Bay Area". Palo Alto JCC, Palo Alto, CA. Curator: Simcha Moyal.
"California", Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA. Juror: William Wray.
"Let's Catch a Wave at Triton", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA. Curator: Preston Metcalf.
"Travel Time: The Discovery of America", Central Artist's Hall, Moscow, Russia. Curator: Natalie Georgadze.
2011Works on Paper, National juried show, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz. Juror: Preston Metcalf.
Gala Show, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA. Curator: Preston Metcalf.
2010"Go Figure!", National juried show, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA. Juror: George Rivera.
"Vessels", Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA.
Group Show, Gallery 28, San Francisco.
Mid-Spring Evening Gala, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA.
"Image Attitude Impression", National juried show, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. Juror: Geoffrey Bates.
2009"Roots..." Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA. Juror: Phil Joanou; curator: Emily Falke.
Annual Triton Gala at Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA. Curator: Preston Metcalf.
"Multiplicity", National juried show, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL. Juror: Barbara Cooper.
20082D 144 National Invitational Exhibition, Kauffman gallery, Huber Art Center, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg.
"Fragments", Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA. Juror: David Furman; curator: Emily Falke.
"Artfully Yours," the Annual Triton Gala at Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA. Curator: Preston Metcalf.
Theatre for the New City, NY, NY, Four-person show. Curator: Crystal Field.
"Home Sweet Home", National juried show, Wiseman Gallery, Grants Pass, OR. Jurors: Tommi Drake, Pat Enos.
Statewide Painting Competition and Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA. Juror: Dominic Cretara, Professor of Art.
2007Annual Open Juried Show, Art Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA. Juror: Marian Parmenter.
"Painted Tongue" (Union of Art & Word), National juried show, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2006"Family is..." National juried show, Northwest Cultural Council, Rolling Meadows, IL.
"Aha! Epiphanies and Breakthroughs", National juried show, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Terra Nova magazine Anniversary Show, San Francisco Main Library, CA.
2004"A Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose", North America juried show, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC, Canada.
BACA Members Showcase, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA.
Small Works Exhibition, National juried show, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD.
2003"American Figurative Art", Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA, Honorary Mention.
National Small Works, National juried show, Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY.
Juried Exhibition of Russian Artists, SATI, Sunnyvale, CA. Jurors: Alla Viksne, Vladimir Vitkovski.
5th Annual Russian Women's Show (invitational), C.A.S.E. Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, NJ. Curator: Roza Kryzhanovska.
1997"Images of Spring", Mary Bell Galleries, Chicago, IL. Three-person show.
199668th Grand National Exhibition, The American Artists Professional League, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY.
National juried show, Hampton Galleries, Westhampton Beach, NY.
Annual Juried Show, The American Artists Professional League, Millburn, NJ.
Landscape Show, East Bay Regional Park District and Weir Gallery, Berkeley, CA.

Selected Public and Private Collections

El Camino Health, Mountain View, CA.
Sutter Health, San Jose, CA.
John Muir Health, Walnut Creek, CA.
Samara Regional Museum of Art, Samara, Russia.
East Bay Regional Park District, Oakland, California.
State Bank of Countryside, Chicago, Illinois.
Suzanne Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University, CA.
Prof. Yuri Manin, former director of Max Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany.
Prof. Richard Villems, Tartu, Estonia.
Prof. Boris Bernstein, Palo Alto, CA.

Articles and interviews

Bulletin de la Sociéteé Les Amis de Maurice Rollinat No. 52. Châteauroux : Ed. Laboureur, 2013, p.149
"Mysterious American Landscapes". By M. Praskovjina, Samarskaya Gazeta, Aug. 26, 2011.
"Landscape Show in the Art Museum". Samara Business Consulting newspaper, Aug. 23, 2011.
Maria Kazanskaya, album with an essay by Professor Boris Bernstein(*). Palo Alto, CA, 2009.
Interview for SKAT TV in Samara, Russia, July 3, 2009.
"Maria Kazanskaya in Samara". By S. Sarkisov, Samarskoe Obozrenie newspaper, #40 (845), Samara, Russia, June 29, 2009.
"I Am Playing Between Abstraction and Representation". An interview with Elena Andreeva, Volzhskaya Kommuna newspaper, #220, Samara, Russia, June 25, 2009.
"Different Landscapes of a Far-Away Land." An essay by Olga Sokolova, Samara I Guberniya magazine, Samara, Russia, June 2009.
Featured artist at MyArtSpace.com, February/March, 2009.
Interview with Brian Sherwin, Senior Editor at MyArtSpace.com, Feb 27, 2009.
"Juried show on exhibit at RCC' s Wiseman Gallery", Grants Pass Daily Courier, Grants Pass, OR, March 12, 2008.
Article in Palo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto, CA, March 12, 2008.
"Kazanskaya's paintings on display at Wiseman Gallery", Grants Pass Daily Courier, Grants Pass, OR, July 14, 2007.
Article in The Daily Independent, Ridgecrest, CA, February 9, 2007.
Featured artist in Terra Nova magazine, June 2006.
"Pictures from an Exhibition", review by N.Banchik, Vzglyad, San Francisco, CA, 2003.
War and Romance e-zine, an essay on Maria Kazanskaya's still life paintings by S. Newberry, 1997.
"Two Shows", essay by B. Bernstein, Vstrecha, Palo Alto, CA, 1996.
Inter Alia magazine (international art and literature), UK, June 1995.

Publications

2023 Cover: Disbelief, 100 Russian Anti-War Poems, edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, Smokestack Books, Middlesborough, UK.
American Art Collector 2014, Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA, 2014.
Experiments in Graphics (exhibition catalog), The Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2013.
Time of Wandering: East−West (exhibition catalog), GEO_ART Gallery, Moscow, 2012.
Studio Visit Magazine, volume 18, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2012.
International Contemporary Artists art book, volume III, I.C.A. Publishing, New York, NY, 2011.
Illustrations: Neuroses by Maurice Rollinat (Russian translation). Vodoley Publishers, Moscow, 2012.
Illustrations: Selected Neuroses. Poems by Maurice Rollinat in French with parallel Russian translations, 2012. -- See images.
Illustrations: Blue Happiness, Green Sorrow. Poems by V. Kanevsky, Gelikon Plus publishers, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2006. -- See images
Illustrations: Four Lines. An anthology of short verse by various authors. -- See images
Eclectica Best Fiction Anthology, Vol. 1 (2003), cover image.
Il Museo che non c'e' CD-ROM, Italy, 1996.