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Natalia Artemievna Verdi was born in 1958 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). In 1981 she graduated from the Mukhina Higher School of Applied Arts in Leningrad. From 1983 until 1993 she was with the “Pechatny Dvor” (Head Printing Enterprise). She also worked with “Plakat”, “Detgiz” (National Publishing House for Children), “Khudoznik Rossii” (Russian Painter) and “Cooperated Zimina”. A popular placard designer, she is now is engaged primarily in easel painting. She has been a member of the Artists’ Union of Russia since 1990. She has been an active participant in City, All-Russian and international art exhibitions.
Important shows include:
- 1985 - Moscow: YIII Exhibition of Young Painters
- 1986 - Dresden-Leningrad: “We are Sister Cities” Exhibition
- 1988 - St.Petersburg: “The 1st Competitive Exhibition of Original Placard Design”
- 1989 - St.Petersburg: Glasnost International Exhibition
- 1989 - “Aphoristic Placard Exhibition”
- 1989 - All-Union Exhibition: “Perestroika and Ourselves”
- 1989 - Placard-Self portrait Exhibition
- 1990 - All-Union Exhibition: “The Volga is Russia’s Sorrow”
- 1990 - Exhibition: “Leningrad in Manchester”
- 1990 - St. Petersburg, Milan, Paris: International Exhibition: “Conscience and the Ten Commandments”
- 1998 - St.Petersburg Myshelovka: Art in Briefcase Exhibition at Borei (Boreus) Gallery
- 2001 - Exhibition in the Gallery “Palitra”
- 2002 - Exhibition in the Scientist House
- 2002 - Exhibition: “Angels of St. Petersburg”
- 2003 - Central Exhibit Chamber: “Artists for the City”
She is married to artist Vasili Kovalenko and their daughter Masha Sokolova is also an artist.
Verdi’s paintings can be found in private collections in Russia, the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands.
Her works have been published in numerous books and journals, including:
- “Leningrad Arts” #1, 1989
- Tradition and Revolution in Russian art Catalog (1990)
- Moscow’s affiche Catalog. Milan, 1991
- Graphik Protest in the USSR. Milan 1991
