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Born in 1973 in Moscow, Russia


1993-1999, Moscow Surikov State Art Institute, Moscow, Russia

1985-92, Moscow Art Surikov Lyceum, Moscow, Russia

1981-85, Childrens' Art School, Moscow, Russia



"As a little girl, I remember I wanting to take art classes, but my parents wouldn't take me seriously. Then, one time when we went to the country, there was a big beautiful lake with water lilies. I wanted to draw them as they were, from nature, like a real big painter. I began to draw them standing in the water up to my knees. An hour and a half later, the drawing was ready. After that, my parents decided to send me to an art school.

I became a professional artist early on in my life.

My favorite season is spring. Spring is the time when everything is transformed. I am fond of painting bouquets and garden flowers.

It's great to be an artist. An artist is a person possessing the capacity to see beauty in the simplest things and to paint them in order to bring joy to other people."

Janna Sokova, September 2000

  • Selected Group Exhibitions
    • 2000:
        Exhibition Dedicated to the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941-45), Moscow, Russia

        Moscow-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Russia

    • 1999: Moscow Surikov State Art Institute, Moscow, Russia, Exhibition of Best Degree Works

    • 1997-99: Young People Exhibition, Moscow, Russia

    • 1996:
        Youth 96, Moscow, Russia

        Starry Sad Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia, Christmas 1996

        Usad'ba Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia, Women in Art and Palette of the Capital

    • 1995:
        Jakimanka Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia, Portrait of the End of the 20th Century

        Moscow Art Surikov Lyceum, Moscow, Russia, Exhibition of Final Works

    • 1994: Art Alliance Gallery, Moscow, Russia, Plein Air 94


  • Selection of works from Janna Sokova


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    • 2000: State Grant, Union of Russian Artists

    • 1995-97: Grant, New Names International Charitable Program