Olga Soldatova

Olga Soldatova is a Ukrainian artist from Odessa, was born in 1980. She works with different techniques: watercolor, oil, acrylic. She paints on different surfaces: paper, canvas, walls, wood and even on tree hollows of the trees, which made her popular on TV, radio and newspapers. 

Olga Soldatova is a member of the Urbansketchers Ukrainian group in Odessa. She is a participant and a finalist of international exhibitions, competitions and plein airs. She actively participates and organizes joint exhibitions, events, plein airs both in her hometown and during joint trips around Ukraine and abroad. Olga is not afraid of challenges to paint both large murals from 7x3 meters and small miniatures of 5x3.5 cm. Her artworks are located in private collections in the USA, Germany, Latvia, Israel, Greece, Spain, Norway, Poland, Moldova and Ukraine.

Education: 
• Art school #2 in Odessa
• Odessa National University of Foreign languages (English and German)

Events and exhibitions: 
- May 2019 participation in a project representing Ukraine at Venice Biennale ” The Shadow of Dream cast upon Giardini della Biennale”
- June 2019 participation in International Festival of the watercolor miniature MiniWatercolor Kyiv
- August 2019 participation in express exhibition of Odessa urban sketchers in the open air in Shevchenko park
- October 2019 participation in exhibition of Odessa urban sketchers at Prostranstvo at Donskogo
- October 2019 participation at charity dinner of Monsters, Inc with real time painting and charity auction of the paintings
- November 2019 – organizing an Art-trip to Wroclaw, Poland (active sketching in travelling)
2020 – Participant of the International watercolor festival “Our Wonderful World” Ukraine/Poland
2020 - Finalist and special prize winner of the International watercolor contest and festival “Step by step”. Poland
August 2020 - participation in an exhibition and demonstration a master class as part of the Urbansketchers project at the Charity Market, organized by the SovaFest agency in Odessa.
September 2020 - participation in an exhibition and market at the MuseumFest at the Green Theater in Shevchenko Park as part of the Urbansketchers project, Odessa
November 2020 – Participation in international watercolor festival and biennale “Sea Aquarelle” in Odessa
2021 – finalist of the International watercolor contest and festival “Step by step”. Poland
June 2022 – Participation in an exhibition “Urban sketchers Oldenburg –Odessa”, Germany Oldenburg
November 2022 – Participation in International Watercolor Festival “Freedom”, Ukraine
March 2023 - Participation in an International Festival of Watercolor in Cordoba (Spain) 
April 2023 - Participation in Fabriano in Aquarello International Festival of Watercolor in Bologna (Italy)
May 2023 – Participation in Urbino in Aquarello International Festival of Watercolor in Urbino (Italy)
March 2024 – Participation in an International Festival of Watercolor in Cordoba (Spain) 
April 2024 – Participation in an exhibition “United by Watercolor” Odessa, Ukraine
April 2024 - Participation in “Fabriano in Aquarello International Festival of Watercolor” in Bologna, Fabriano (Italy) and in October 14-15 in Texas (USA)
April 2024 – Participation in an international exhibition of ACEO cards “Small Paintings, Big Stories” Lviv, Ukraine
May 2024 – Participation in an exhibition More.Od.Ua in Odessa, Ukraine
June 2024 – Participation in Animalistic exhibition in “Sady Pobedy” in Odessa, Ukraine
August 2024 – Participation in international festival “Step by step” in Gdansk (Poland)
 

Olga Soldatova is a Ukrainian artist from Odessa, she works with different techniques: watercolor, oil, acrylic and is not afraid of challenges to paint both large murals from 7x3 meters and small miniatures of 5x3.5 cm. Olga Soldatova is a member of the Urbansketchers Ukraine group in Odessa. She is a participant and a finalist of international exhibitions, competitions and plein airs. She actively participates and organizes joint exhibitions, events, plein airs both in her hometown and during joint trips around Ukraine and abroad. Her artworks are located in private collections in the USA, Germany, Latvia, Israel, Greece, Spain, Norway, Poland, Moldova and Ukraine.