Varia Stern was born on November 6th, 1986 in Moscow, Russia.
Basic art education received at the Moscow State Academic Memory of 1905 Art School completing the course “Painting” (2009), then finished the course “Illustration” at the British Higher School of Art & Design in
Moscow (2013). Since 2009 she has been studying Old Master techniques, continuing her theoretical and practical studies.
Her research methodology and choice of subjects has been influenced by her interest in ancient Oriental philosophy, particularly Chinese and Japanese, and her learning of Korean. She examines the authenticity of art and human presence in the world and the art of the past. She works with aboriginal and other indigenous ornaments, using motifs from ancient Korean masks, symbolism and animism from ancient religions.
Education
2002-2009 Moscow Academic Art School. 1905, Faculty of Painting, Moscow, Russia
2012-2013 British Higher School of Art and Design, Illustration course, under the direction of V. Melamed, Moscow.
Participation in exhibitions:
2023 Royal Society of Portrait Artists Annual Exhibition 2023, Mall Gallery, London, UK
2016 It Girls, Galerie Montmartre, Moscow, Russia
2016 Myth. Spring. City, Montmartre Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015 Young Artists, film festival "Saint Anna", House of Cinema, Moscow, Russia
2015 Multifaceted Russia. Without Politics, Federal Agency for Commonwealth of Independent States, London, England
2015 Multifaceted Russia, Russian Centre for Science and Culture, Prague, Czech Republic
2016 Moscow - New York - Moscow, Anna Rozenstein's private space, Moscow, Russia and New York, USA.
2016 "Two Artists", film festival "Saint Anna", House of Cinema, Moscow, Russia 2015 Childhood, Detsky Mir, Moscow, Russia
2010 Student Art Fair, Moscow, Russia
2010 Sentimental Journey, Wise Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2010 Young Artists of Russia, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia 2009 Graduation Exhibition, Moscow Academic Art School. 1905, Moscow, Russia
Prizes and awards:
2023 finalist of the Royal Society of Portrait Artists Annual Exhibition 2023, Mall Gallery, London, UK
2008 finalist of the national contest of children's illustrators "Artists of childhood of innermost dreams", Engineering Building, GTG, Moscow, Russia.
Works in private collections in the USA, France, UK, Japan, Australia, Germany, Italy.
NFT works in the collection of Cozomo de Medici
(aka Snoop Dogg).
