Pshenitsina, Galina Vasilievna

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Galina Vasilevna Pshenitsina was born in 1940 in the town of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). She began her studies at the Art School named after Johanson in St. Petersburg. In 1959, she transferred to Repin Institute of Art, studying in Oreshnikov’s studio.

Pshenitsina’s teacher career began in 1965 at the Art College in Ryazan. The following year she taught in the Art College in Makhachkala, Dagestan.

Since 1968 Galina has been a member of the Artists’ Union of Degastan. In 1972 she began teaching in the Art Pedagogic Institute in Makhachkala, and since 1978 she has been teaching in the Art College named after Germal in Makhachkala. In 1992 she was awarded with the title “Honored Art Worker of the Dagestan Republic.”

She is married to artist Khairullah Kurbanov and has three children; two of them, Arsen and Yaroslav, are artists as well.

Galina has taken part in more than 80 exhibitions. Important exhibitions include:

1967,’72,’77,’82,’87,’92: Zonal exhibitions “South of Russia”
1971: “Youth Exhibition”; Leningrad
1972: “Exhibition of Autonomous Republics”; Moscow, Central House of Artists
1985: Personal exhibition; Makhachkala (more than 150 works were exhibited)
1999: Opening of her personal exhibition at the Summer Garden Tea House in St. Petersburg

Some of Galina’s paintings have been purchased for the Exhibition Fund of the Russian Ministry of Culture, the Museum of Art in Makhachkala, and for private collections in Australia, Israel, and the United States.

Galina’s works have been published in various books and journals, including: