Galerie Blue Square : galerie d'art russe contemporaine - contemporary russian art gallery - Paris

Elena Figurina was born in Latvia in 1955 and lives and works today in St. Petersburg. In 1969 her family moved to Leningrad where she trained and worked officially as an engineer until 1989, but began exhibiting her artworks unofficially since 1978. From 1976 to 1981, she helped organize underground exhibitions with the nonconformist group TEII. Since 2000, she has been a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Modern Art and has participated in over 200 exhibitions both in Russia and abroad. Figurina's paintings and sculptures are included in museum and private collections in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Finland, Germany, Holland, South Korea, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.

2006
ITF Art, M'ars Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2004
Gallery AnnaNova, St. Petersburg, Russia

Nabokov Museum, St. Petersburg

D-137 Gallery, St. Petersburg

2001  
Na Obvodnom Gallery, St. Petersburg

Agents Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

D-137 Gallery, St. Petersburg

1998
Center of Modern Art, State University of St. Petersburg

1997
Werdermann Art Gallery, Hamburg

1996
Museum of Anna Akhmatova, Fountain House, St. Petersburg

1995
State Museum of Theater and Music Arts, St. Petersburg

1992
Werdermann Art Gallery, Hamburg

International Images Gallery, Sewickley, PA, USA

Gelman Gallery, Moscow

1991
Lind and Andreasen Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark

1990
Avrora Magazine Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg

Gallery Exhibit, Berlin, Germany

1989
Gallery Klein Typografie, Hamburg

2006
State Russian Museum, Time of Changes: Art of 1960-1985 in the Soviet Union, St. Petersburg

2003
State Tretyakov Gallery, Avant-garde, Second Part of the XX Century,Moscow

2002
Ludwig Museum, Der Russische Symbolismus, Koblenz, Germany

State Tretyakov Gallery, Femme Art, Women Painting in Russia, XV-XX Centuries, Moscow (catalogue)

State Russian Museum, Twosome, St. Petersburg

2001
Central Exhibition Hall of Union of Artists, Academy of Contemporary Art, About Love, St. Petersburg (catalogue) 

Central Exhibition Hall, Manege, In Search of the Missing Link, St. Petersburg (catalogue)

Gallery D-137, St. Petersburg

Gisich Art Gallery, St. Petersburg

2000
La Papessa Gallery, Vienna, Austria

1976-90
Annual exhibitions of Leningrad unofficial artists

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Museum of History of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg

Museum of Theater and Music Arts, St. Petersburg

Norton & Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art, Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Museum of Fine Arts, Sevastopol, Russia

Oregon University Museum of Art, Eugene, OR

Museum of Modern Art, St. Petersburg

Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg

State Museum of Astrakhan

State Museum of Khabarovsk

State Museum of Kazan

State Museum of Kaliningrad