Ksenia Stekolshchikova

Ksenia Stekolshchikova is a contemporary Russian painter born in 1991 in Moscow, into a family of artists. She began her formal education in art at the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum (МАХЛ РАХ), and later graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute (МГАХИ им. Сурикова), one of Russia’s most prestigious art academies.

Since 2007, she has actively participated in over 80 exhibitions across Russia and Moscow. In 2014, she became a member of the Moscow Union of Artists, and in 2015 joined the Youth Association of the International Academy of Culture and Art. That same year, she was awarded a State Scholarship of the Russian Federation and took part in the XVIII Youth Arts Festival “Russia–France” held at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.

Her first solo exhibition, titled The World of My Painting, was held in 2016 at the Cultural Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. From 2016 to 2019, she was a trainee artist at the Creative Academic Workshop of Painting under the guidance of renowned Russian painters A. P. Tkachev and S. P. Tkachev.

Stekolshchikova’s work is known for its emotional depth and nostalgic atmosphere, often reflecting themes of introspection, memory, and the quiet beauty of everyday life.