- Natalie Holland
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Natalie Holland Born April 6, 1962
St. Petersburg, RussiaNationality Russian Field Painting Influenced by Rembrandt and Velasquez Natalie Holland is a Russian-born Norweigan-based contemporay artist.
Born in 1962 in St. Petersburg to Russian parents, Holland grew up near the Black Sea before commencing music studies at the age of 12. Her mother, who like the majority of Russian parents had great ambitions for her child, wanted Holland to become a pianist, a profession that in her eyes was safe and prestigious. Holland, however, had other ideas and convinced her mother to allow her to take on art as well as music studies, and after years of hard work and determination she left the conservatoire in St. Petersburg as a graduate of art.
In 1981 Holland moved to Norway with her mother who had met and married a Norwegian. Within years of arriving she had herself married and had a daughter.
However, Holland’s life was to take a turn after meeting Norwegian art’s 'enfant terrible' Odd Nerdrum. The much celebrated, and equally controversial, painter saw some of Holland’s figurative works and asked her to come to his atelier. Her visit resulted in a two-year apprenticeship from 1990-1992 during which she gained insight into his technique as well as his unique world.
Like Nerdrum, Holland’s figurative paintings depict controversial, contemporary, and sometimes disturbing issues, in a detailed style comparable to that of some of the old masters.
Her breakthrough in the United States was when she sold her painting ‘The Bride’ for $33,000 which opened new doors for her and since then some works selling for more. She has since then exhibited in the gallery Gruppo Donatello in Florence in and the ‘Mortification of Self’ exhibition the following year with shows in London and Oslo.
With a ramp up to 2009 when her portrait "Agnes" was selected for exhibition at the BP Portrait Award at The National Portrait Gallery in London, and a DVD about her art and her life due out in early 2011.
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Exhibitions
Norwegian Ambassador Kim Traavik's Residence, Oscar Pistorious and Queen Maud Unveiling, London - May, 2011
Galleries Maurice Sternberg - Chicago, USA - September, 2010
Go Figurative - Real Broadgate Art Show, London - September 2010
Gallery Ramfjord - Oslo, Norway 12 Year Anniversary Group Exhibition- 2010
Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, BP Portrait Award December – February 28, 2010
BP Portrait Award 2009 - National Portrait Gallery - 18 June - 20 September - 2009
Southampton City Art Gallery 28 September - 31 November - 2009
Royal College of Art, London, UK "Selected works" - 2008
Grev Wedels Plass Kunsthandel, Oslo, Norway - "Images From Unlived Lives" - 2007
Grev Wedels Plass Kunsthandel, Oslo, Norway -"Mortification of Self" - 2006
Gallery 27, London, UK - "Mortification of Self", 2005
Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA - "Women by Women" - 2004
San Francisco International Art Exhibition, San Francisco, USA - 2003
Gruppo Donatello, Florence, Italy - “Il Progresso di un ídentita", Solo exhibition - 2002
Art Chicago, Chicago, USA - 2001
Boston International Fine Art Show, Boston, USA -2000
Claire Oliver Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA - "Thinking outside of the box", 2000
Art Miami International 2000, Miami, USA - 2000
Boston International Fine Art Show", Boston, USA - 1999
Claire Oliver Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA - "The Norwegian Figurative Painting” - 1999
Modern & Contemporary Art Fair, Palm Beach, USA - 1999
COFA Opening Show, Philadelphia, USA - 1998
Galleri Ericson, Oslo, Norway - 1997
Galleri D 40, Stockholm, Sweden - 1994
Blomqvist Kunsthandel, Oslo, Norway - “I de dødes tradisjon" - 1993
Galleri Tonne, Oslo, Norway - "12 Figurative" - 1992
Fredrikstad Kunstforening, Fredrikstad, Norway "Unge Figurative" - 1992
Education
- 1990-92: Student of Odd Nerdrum, Oslo, Norway
- 1978-80: Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 1972-78: School of Fine Arts, Novorossijsk, Russia
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Categories:- Norwegian painters
- Russian painters
- Contemporary painters
- Portrait artists
- Figurative art
- Russian contemporary artists
- 1962 births
- Living people
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