Education

• 2015   BFA           Drawing and Painting Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA  (expected)
  
• 2006   BA             Political Science University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  
• 2002 – 2006        Private Art Study Peter Schwartzman, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  
  

Commissions
      Mr and Mrs Dexton Blackstock, Grazing (oil on canvas, 15”x 15”)
      Ms Irina Oustinova, Untitled Portrait (oil on canvas, 16”x 24”)

Professional Experience

• 2008: Book cover design. 
  Louis Viardot. Hunting in Russia and the Story of Dmitry, Slavic Research Group, University of Ottawa, CA
• 2007: Book cover design.
  La Russie et le monde francophone, Slavic Research Group, University of Ottawa, CA
  
• 2006:  Cover design and illustration.
  Poetics-Hermeneutics-Thematics, Slavic Research Group, University of Ottawa, CA
  
• 2006: Illustration.
  Poster design, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, CA
• 2004: Illustration and design.
  Developed and illustrated a website and all related materials (pamphlets, programs, etc) for an international literature conference on
  Anton Chekhov. Department of Modern Languages and Literature, University of Ottawa, CA

Special Skills
      Portraiture, Trompe l’oeil, Landscape Painting

Important Classes Taken
      Plein Air Painting, Advanced Composition and Painting, Quick Studies 1 & 2

Travel

• Extended travel through the Canadian Maritimes
  
• California coast (San Francisco to San Diego)
  
• Netherlands and Belgium
  
• Central and Southern regions of Russia
  
  

Languages
     Russian (fluent), French