After graduating from the
internationally renown Stroganov Art Institute in
Moscow, Olga spent several years living and working
abroad. Solo exhibitions followed with great success in the famous
galleries in Britain, the USA, Germany, Hungary, and Yugoslavia.
Many posters of work are now distributed
worldwide.
Currently, Olga lives and
works in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Her paintings are in the
collections of the State Russian Museum, State Museum of Literature
and private and corporate collections in Russia, the United States,
Western European countries. Two of her works have won the prize of
the exhibition-competition "The Golden Brush -
2004".
Olga Shagina does not talk
much about her work, "It is like music" she explains, "or love, you
can't explain it with words, you can only experience
it."