About the Artist
Tatiana Akoeva is a Russian-born artist living in New York City and Sarasota, Fl. She primarily works in oils. Her paintings gravitate toward the representational based upon perceived interpretation. In her paintings, color signifies meaning and emotion.
She received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2019 where she was granted a Merit Scholarship and a Blick Award upon graduation. She received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC where she won a Dusty award for the best film “Resonance” upon graduation. That film has been accepted and screened at a few film festivals.
Akoeva spent two years copying Masters at the Metropolitan Museum Copyist’s Program. She has taken many workshops in Italy concentrating on figure and plein air. She was a twice recipient of the Chashama residency grant and recently completed the artist-in-residence program in Chateau Orquevaux, France. She was a recipient of the Denis Diderot grant.
Akoeva participated in numerous exhibitions in the USA and abroad. Her paintings are in private collections in USA, Italy, France, Japan, Greece and in the collection of the Germanist Society of America in NYC. Akoeva is an adjunct professor at the State College of Florida.