Diana Vouba was born in Tqvarchal, Abkhazia on January 5, 1958.

At the age of 14 she started to study painting at Sukhum Art College and later perfected her painting technique at Repin Institute in St. Petersburg.

After graduating in 1986 from Tbilisi Arts Academy, she was invited to work for the USSR Academy of Arts, where she experimented with almost all existing graphic arts techinques. She was admitted to the USSR Artists Union in 1988.

Vouba participated in a number of exhibitions. She had a personal exhibition in the Central House of Artists in Moscow in March of 1992. Since 1991 she has participated in over 40 exhibitions in Russia and abroad, 12 of which were author's exhibitions.

Her favourite genre is portraiture, but she sees portraiture not as a genre but rather as a method of the creative process: portrait of a man, of a flower, of a stone...

1958 Born in Abkhazia
1976 Graduated from Art Studio in Sukhumi
1986 Graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
1988 Admitted to the Union of Painters of the USSR
1991 Graduated from the Art Workshops of the Soviet Academy of Arts
1996 Gold medal of the International Arts Festival in Tunis

Her works are in numerous museums and private collections, including State Russian Museum, Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow Museum of Modern art, Gallery of Royal Family Ludovizi in Rome, private galleries and collections in CIS countries, Russia, USA, Austria, Italy, France, Tunisia, Egypt, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Belgium, Switzerland, Malta, Greece, Egypt, Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Philippine.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

• 1992 The Central House of Artists, Moscow
• 1994 Gallery "Russia", Moscow
• 1996 Gallery "Khayachi", Tunis
• 1996 Russian Cultural Center, Tunis
• 1997 "East Gallery", Moscow
• 1997 "HS Art Gallery", Basel, Switzerland
• 1997 Gallery "Seepark", Thun, Switzerland
• 1997 The Central House of Artists, Moscow
• 1998 "A Poem of Silence", Gallery "Pan-Dan", Moscow
• 1998 Gallery "MARTin", Basel, Switzerland
• 1999 Grant Gallery, Soho, New York

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:

• 1993 Golden Brush, Central House of Artists, Moscow
• 1996 Art-Manege'96, Moscow
• 1998 Art Salon'98, Moscow Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow
• 1998 Mosaic of the XX Century, Gallery Pan-Dan, Moscow
• 1998 Art-Manege'98, Moscow
• 1999 Women in Art, the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Friendship Gallery, Washington DC
• 2000 Art-Manege'2000, Moscow
• 2000 Women in Art, Atrium Gallery, Morris County Administration Building, New-York
• 2001 Gallery Pan-Dan, Moscow
• 2001 Art Moscow'2001, Moscow
• 2001 Women in Art, Bergen Museum, The Kolodzei Art Foundation, The Hackensack Arts and Cultural Center, New-York
• 2001 The 10th Anniversary of the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Consulate General of the Russian Federation, New-York
• 2001 "Abstraction of the XX Century in Russia", Russian Museum, St-Petersburg
• 2002 New Identities New Forms Contemporary Russian Women Artists, Georgetown University Art Galleries, Washington DC

Offical Web Site of Diana Vouba

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Shazina Gallery

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