Katya Granova
London, United Kingdom
Katya Granova (b.1988) is a painter from St Petersburg Petersburg, Russia, currently based in London. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2021), a Certificate from the Paris College of Art (2015), and an MA Art & Space from Kingston University London. Recent exhibitions include solo shows Voices from a Suitcase, Shtager&Schc, London (2023), When My Babushka joined the Reich, Barbican Art Group Trust, London (2022), and group shows London Grands 2021, Saatchi Gallery(2021) and Little Explosions, The Bomb Factory South, London, UK (2022). She is a winner at Bath Open Art Prize(2023), Art Works Open (2021), and Signature Art Prize (2020), a finalist at the Castlegate Art Prize (2020) and Women United Art Prize (2023), got in a short list of for the Bankley Prize 2019, and long list of Contemporary British Painting Prize (2023) and John Moores Painting Prize(2020). She has held art residencies with the Barbican Art Group Trust (2022), Sommer Atelier Aschersleben (2022), Dukley Art Residence, Montenegro (2020), and Art Residency Normandy (2020). In 2020, she collaborated with Burberry UK as an artist and in 2021 the Royal College of Art purchased her work "Surgeons" for their permanent collection.