Victoria Udalova is a neo-figurative artist who has
been working in Spain for over 3 years. In 2025, she became a member of the
Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors (AEPE).
She began drawing in childhood.
From 1980 to 1984 – Primary Art School, Volgograd.
From 1984 to 1988 – Post-compulsory Secondary Art
School in Saratov (painting department).
From 1988 to 1990 – worked as an art teacher for
children at an art school.
From 1990 to 1991 – worked as a ceramist at the
Volgograd Ceramics Factory. She created new forms of tableware.
From 1991 to 1997 – graduated from the University of
Applied Arts, Ceramics Department (Moscow), now the Moscow State University of
Applied Arts,
and participated in exhibitions of young artists.
In 1995 – became a member of the creative vocational
training of the Union of Graphic Artists.
In 1999, she became a member of the MOSH Union of
Artists.
Since 1991, she has participated in exhibitions.
She received a classical academic education,
graduating from the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied
Arts (1991–1997) and the Saratov Art School (1984–1988), where she studied
painting and applied arts in the traditions of the European school.
In 2022, with the outbreak of war, she made a
difficult decision to emigrate to Spain due to internal disagreement and
rejection.
Her works are held in private collections and
exhibition spaces across Spain, Italy, and other European countries. Among her
solo exhibitions are Summer Mosaic (La Casa de Cultura de l'Alfàs del Pi,
Spain, 2017) and Body Mystery (Fundación Frax, Spain, 2017). In 2025, Victoria
participated in exhibitions at Toni Mari Art Gallery (Dénia), Jovellanos
Exhibition Hall (Madrid), and Palau Gomis, headquarters of MEAM (European
Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona). She has also taken part in major European art
events such as the DContemporary Painting Prize (London, 2019–2020), Amsterdam
International Art Fair (2019), and Parallax Art Fair (London, 2019).
In 2025, she was among the 150 finalists for the
Target Prize and became a finalist of Mini Figurativas 2025 (The MEAM Hall).
Her work combines neo-figurative expressionism and
psychological painting. Victoria explores the fluidity of perception and the
fragility of the moment, creating paintings as a living response to emotions
and experience, while attempting to convey encounters with something truly
human.
