Olga Grechina was born in the town of Kovrov, Vladimir Region, on February 4, 1947. She graduated from Moscow’s
Surikov Art School in 1972 and joined the Soviet Artists Union in 1974. Ever since she has been contributing to
nationwide, international and all sorts of other exhibitions inside and outside the Soviet Union and Russia. She
won a diploma at the Triennial of Realistic Painting (Bulgaria, 1985) and the first prize at the Biennial of Graphic
Works in Cracow (Poland, 1986). Olga Grechina staged her solo shows at the M’ARS Gallery of Moscow in 1990,
the Carlier Gallery (France) in 1992, the Pan Art Gallery (Moscow) in 1993, the Intercolor Gallery (Moscow) in 1996
and the U Yara Gallery (Moscow) in 2001. She also took part in group exhibitions, including “Contemporary
Soviet Art” (Alpha Cubic Gallery, Tokyo, 1990), “The Quest for Self-Expression. Painting in Moscow and
Leningrad 1965–1990” (Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, 1990), “The Twentieth Century Russian Art.
Avant-garde – Glasnost” (Nassau County Museum of Art, USA, 1992) and “The World of Sensual Things
in Pictures” (the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, M’ARS Gallery, Moscow, 1997). Olga Grechina’s works
are to be found at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Nuremberg museums, the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art and the
Reinhold Würth Museum (Germany), the Alpha Cubic Gallery (Japan) and the Zigzag Corporation (USA), as well
as in other museum and private collections.
