Daria Kollegova was born in 1960 in Leningrad. She graduated from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the USSR Academy of Arts, where she has been teaching painting for over thirty years. She is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. Her works are held in museums in Russia, China, and Korea, as well as in private collections.
One of the prominent representatives of the contemporary academic school, Daria Kollegova approaches tradition as a living material. Her painting — encompassing landscapes, portraits, and still lifes — is marked by a paradoxical approach and a strong sense of inner freedom. For the artist, there are no forbidden forms, color combinations, or compositional structures.
Treating painting as a way of understanding the world, Kollegova believes that the path to knowledge lies through experimentation and process. Her visual language is distinguished by boldness, refined aesthetics, and a sense of metaphor. Her artistic practice is in constant development, moving through rapid and often unexpected stages of inner evolution.
Painter, educator, member of the Union of Artists of Russia,
Associate Professor at the Department of Painting and Composition, Repin Institute
Born in Leningrad in 1960
Daria Kollegova is an artist who continues the finest traditions of the Russian realist school of painting. She received her education at the Secondary Art School of the Academy of Arts and later at the Painting Faculty of the Repin Institute, where she studied under the outstanding master Boris Uvarov. Under his guidance, she also completed her postgraduate training.
Since 1988, she has been engaged in teaching, having mentored numerous students now working across the world. Today, she serves as an Associate Professor at the Department of Painting and Composition at her alma mater.
Kollegova’s works are distinguished by a subtle painterly culture, with a particular sensitivity to light, space, and the psychological state of the subject or landscape.
Her primary focus lies in figurative painting, landscape, and genre scenes, created within the spirit of contemporary realism.
