Book Presentation: Her Life in Art: Education, Career, and Family for Women Artists of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Authors Olesya Avramenko and Galya Leonova will discuss with Katya Suverina, production editor of Her Life in Art, the story of women in Russian art, the context in which they became professional artists, and how background, married status, motherhood, and domestic life influenced their careers.
Olesya Avramenko (b. 1986) is a cultural studies specialist, art historian, gender researcher, and writer. She works on the analysis of women’s position in the history of Russian art and is the author of the book Gender in Soviet Unofficial Art (2021).
Galya Leonova (b. 1988) holds a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences degree in Aesthetics and is a lecturer at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and a gender researcher. She curated exhibitions and discussion for the project Nezhen (2018–2021). She works on the theory of twentieth-century art and women’s art history.
