Olga Kataeva Rochford

She trained in monumental painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, graduating in 2010. This training is achieved by theoretical research into drawing techniques as part of a doctorate at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3. A member of the Taylor Foundation, she has taught drawing at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris - La Villette since 2013. She is in charge of research for the exhibition" The Ecstatic Eye. Sergei Eisenstein, filmmaker at the crossroads of the arts" at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, in 2018-2019. Today, she composes works mainly inspired by travel and maritime exploration, weaving in influences from the Russian landscapes in which she grew up, as well from artists such as Petrov-Vodkine, Chagall and De Staël. Her work has been published, exhibited, and awarded prizes (including the gold medal at the Salon d'Île-de-France in 2013) and included in private collections in France, Italy, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, New Zealand and the USA.