Ekaterina Smirnova
k.a.smirnova@gmail.com • www.katapostrophe.com • 917 331 1018
Education
Nov 2006 - present
Print making, mixed media, oil paintings, watercolor paintings,
sculpture, Art Students League of NY
Feb 2009 - May 2009 Photography, Photo Manhattan, NY
Sep 2006 - Oct 2006 Flash, Hunter college, NY
Aug 2006 - Aug 2007 Graphic design, SVA, NY
Sep 1998 - Jun 2003
Diploma in Jurisprudence – The Siberian University of
Consumers Cooperative Society, Russia
Sep 1991 - Jun 1996 Art School N3, Novosibirsk, Russia
Scholarships/Residencies
Dec 2012 Ruth Katzman Scholarship, Artist in Residence, The Art Students League of NY
Sept-Oct 2012 Neuhauser Kunstmühle Art Residency, Salzburg, Austria
June 2012 Gottemman Art Residency, Rocky Neck Art community, Gloucester, MA
2012 Ruth Katzman Scholarship, Artist in Residence, The Art Students League of NY
Sept 2011 Art Residence, Plate Clove Art Center, NY
2010 - 2011 Merit Scholarship, The Art Students League of NY
2010 - 2011 Junior Scholarship, Salmagundi Club
Jun 2010 Art Residency, The Art Students League of NY
Awards
2012 Best in Show, Wide Open National Juried Art Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, NY
2012 Deane Keller Memorial Award, Salmagundi Club, NY
2011 Best in Show, Holiday and Winter show, Salmagundi Club, NY
2011 Dale Meyers Cooper Medal, Allied Artists of America
2011 2nd prize, International 1st juried show, Art Fusion Galleries, FL
2011 Excellence Award, Northeast Watercolor Society
2011 SCNY 2nd Prize, The Eternal Landscape Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NY
2011 Chairman’s Award, Junior & Scholarship 2011 Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NY
2010 Loring W. Coleman Award for Watercolor, Allied Artists of America
2010 Elizabeth K. Ellis Artists’ Fellowship Inc. Award for Watercolor, Salmagundi Club, NY
2009 Bruce Crane Memorial Award, 2009 Annual Juried Photography & Graphics Exhibition,
Salmagundi Club, NY
Solo Show
July 2012 Tabla Rasa Gallery, NY
May - June 2012 "Rethinking Watercolor", Adirondack Lakes Art Center, NY
July 2011 Watercolors by Ekaterina Smirnova, Chashama Gallery, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
Oct 2012 Neuhauser Kunstmühle, Salzburg, Austria
Apr 2012 145th American Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition, NY
Mar 2012 Wide Open National Juried Art Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, NY
Jan 2012 Annual North East Watercolor Society Members Exhibition, NY
Nov 2011 Allied Artists of America, 98th Annual Exhibition, NY
Oct 2011 Collision and Equilibrium - American Youth Printmaking Exhibition, Shanghai, China
Oct 2011 "30 by 30", An International Juried Art Exhibition,The Art Students League, NY
Oct 2011 "Fusion VIII - Synesthesia", Art Fusion Gallery, FL
Sep 2011 "Inked Up", Arsenal Gallery, NY
Jun 2011 Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Mystic Arts Center, CT
Jun 2011 Central NY Watercolor Society Annual Juried Show, NY
Mar 2011 Wide Open Art Show, NY
Feb 2011 Northeast Watercolor Society, Annual Members Exhibition, NY
Feb 2011 Salmagundi Club, The Eternal Landscape Exhibition, NY
Jan 2011 Salmagundi Club, Junior & Scholarship 2011 Exhibition, NY
Jan 2011 William Paterson University, “American Impressions”National Printmaking and Book Arts Exhibit, NJ
Nov 2010 Allied Artists of America, 97th Annual Exhibition, NY
Sep 2010 Publicis Healthcare Communications, "Expressions in Watercolor”, NY
Aug 2010 Salmagundi Club, Members Annual Show, NY
Jun 2010 Rogue Space, International Juried Painting Show, NY
May 2010 Gallery 364, “Beginnings”, NY
Jun 2009 Salmagundi Club, Annual Juried Photography and Graphics Exhibition, NY
— Portfolio book and references are available upon request —
