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Nikolay Blokhin
Nikolay Blokhin was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1968. His education in art began very
early at the Art School for Gifted Children in 1980, and continued through his postgraduate
work and professorship at the prestigious St. Petesburg Academy of Art. With more than 20
years of artistic studies Nikolay is a young master with unequaled genius. His paintings are
the embodiment of the classics with a contemporary approach.
The unique style of his paintings has not gone without notice. Nikolay has been the recipi-
ent of many awards, including the Russian Academy of Arts prestigious gold medal award for
“Young Artist of the Year”, the coveted Grand Prize at the American Society of Portrait Artists
2002 competition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Best of Show in the Inter-
national Portrait Competition of the Portrait Society of America ,Boston, 2004.
He is well versed in landscape and still life, as he is in portraiture. Nikolay’s paintings are
represented in some of the world’s greatest collections, in Russia, the Netherlands, China, Bel-
gium, Finland, and the United States.
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