BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

1944   Born in Moscow, April 23, to a family of architects

1962   Graduated from the Moscow Arts School

1968   Graduated from the Moscow Surikov Art Institute

1969   Joined the Artists' Union of the USSR

1982, 1986, 1989   Won Russia's Prize for Best Artwork of the Year

1990   Awarded Honors Silver Medal, Russian Academy of Fine Arts

1991   Professorship of Painting at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts

1994   Awarded title "Honored Artist of Russia"

1997   Elected Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts

1998   Awarded State Prize of Russia in the Fine Arts

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2000   Art of the 20th Century, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, catalogue
Natalya Nesterova: Paintings. Lazar Gadaev: Sculpture, Plastov Museum of Contemporary Art, Ulyanovsk, touring exhibition: State Museum of Fine Arts, Samara; Radischev State Museum of Fine Arts, Saratov
Russian Art of the 1990s, The Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University, New York
Natalya Nesterova: Last Supper, Russian Gallery, Tallinn
Natalya Nesterova, Historical Museu m, Obninsk
Natalya Nesterova: Paintings, Tarussa State Gallery of Fine Arts, Tarussa

1999   Natalya Nesterova: Last Supper in the Exhibit of Paintings in Competition for the State Prize of Russia in the Fine Arts, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Exhibit of Painting in Commemoration of Bicentennial of Alexander Pushkin, Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow; Gallery on Neglinnaya, Moscow
Russian Women Artists and Collapse of the Soviet Society, INTART Museum of Upstate New York at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York

1998   Modernism and Post-Modernism: Russian Art of the Ending Millennium, The Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York, catalogue, touring exhibition: Plattsburgh Art Museum, SUNY, Plattsburgh, New York, 1998; Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1999; Evergreen House Museum, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 2000; Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center and Museum, Washington, DC, 2001; Willington B. Gray Gallery, School of Art, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 2001; The Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University, New York, 2001
Natalya Nesterova, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
Russian Seasons, Cite des Arts, Paris; Central House of Artists, Moscow
Russian Artists Visiting Chagall, Chagall Museum, Vitebsk

1997   The World of Perceptible Things in Pictures, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, catalogue
Last Supper: Paintings by Natalya Nesterova, Central House of Artists, Moscow, catalogue
Meaning as a Second Language: A Contemporary Russian Initiative, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, catalogue

1996   Here and There, Then and Now: Contemporary Artists from the Former Soviet Union, National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC, catalogue
Natalya Nesterova, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
Art-Manege – International Art Fair: XX Century Art, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow
Post-Art-Moderne, Central House of Artists, Moscow
Galleries in Gallery, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

1995   From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, catalogue

1994   Before 'Neo'and After 'Post', Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York, New York, catalogue

1993   Four Russian Messages: Carnival and Drama, Evergreen House Museum, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, catalogue
Natalya Nesterova, Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago
Classic-IV, 4th International Biennial, Kortrijk, Belgium

1992   Natalya Nesterova: A Retrospective, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, catalogue
Natalya Nesterova, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
The Tale of Bread and Tears: Twenty Russian Artists Witness Their Time, Ljubljana Krizanke, Yugoslavia

1991   Natalya Nesterova, Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago
Artistas Rusos Contemporanes, Santiago De Compostela, Auditorio De Galicia, Spain

1990   Natalya Nesterova: New Paintings, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
Contemporary Soviet Art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
The Quest for Self-Expression: Paintings in Moscow and Leningrad 1965-1990, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, catalogue, touring exhibition: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, 1991; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1991

1989   Natalya Nesterova and Lazar Gadaev, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow
Exhibition of 30 Moscow Artists in London, Municipal Gallery, London

1988   Russian Avant-Garde and Soviet Contemporary Art, Sotheby's, Moscow, catalogue
Soviet Art at the Ludwig Museum, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, catalogue
Natalya Nesterova: Recent Works from Moscow, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, catalogue
Contemporary Russian Art, Arte Contemporaneo (ARCO), Madrid
Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago

1987   Contemporary Russian Art, Foire International d'art Contemporain (FIAC), Grand Palais, Paris
Six Moscow Artists, Riga; Tallinn

1986   Kunstler aus Moskau, West Berlin

1985   Exhibition at Ludwig Gallery, Cologne

1984   Exhibition of Five Soviet Artists, Ludwig and Nikolai, Cologne

1982   Exhibition at Ludwig Gallery, Cologne

1981   Art 81, Basel
Art Exhibition, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow

1974   Exhibition of Four Artists, Exhibition Hall Kuznetsky Most, Moscow

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC
China National Museum of Fine Arts – Ludwig Museum, Beijing
Duke Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
Ludwig Museum at The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Museum of Contemporary Art – Ludwig Museum Budapest, Budapest
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Radischev State Museum of Fine Arts, Saratov, Russia
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ