«Julia uses metaphors, conventions, symbols, turnes to culture roots, where there is a world of absolute and high sense. She is a nice obsever, an explorer, a traveller, she is an artist with special worldview and philosophy – Julia expresses herself in sculpture professionally …» says V. Basov.

Biography:
She was born in 1967 in Leningrad, finished Sculpture department of Art School named after V. A. Serov (now after N. Rerikh), workshop of V.S. Novikov. In 1992 she graduated from the Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from the Sculpture, workshop of M. K. Anikushin.

She is a member of International Humanitarian Fond «Svobodnaya Kultura», a member of the Artists' Union of Russia, a member of creative association «Polyrealism», a winner of a Russian president scholarship for creative achivements. In 1998 she designed a monument to children dead in the Great Patriotic War in Kirkovo village (Leningrad region). She is an author of personal exhibitions in Russia and abroad, there are her works in museums and private collections.

Personal exhibitions (more then 90 works):
1992 «Glass of sadness and tame animals» (sculpture, graphics). Academy of Arts exhibition room, St. Petersburg
1993 Graphics exhibition in Nagara, India
1995 Sculpture and Graphics exhibition in Nagara, India
1997 «Star has seven beams», Ecological center «Otkrity Mir», St. Petersburg
1998 «Blue Birds» (sculpture, graphics), Nagara, India
1999 «Russian North» (graphics). Arkhangelsk Local History Museum
2000 «Water and Wind’s Songs» (sculpture, graphics) «Art-Harbor» gallery, St. Petersburg
2002 «Upstream», Coffee House of Summer Garden, St. Petersburg
2005 «Way home». Exhibition Centre of the Artists' Union, St. Petersburg; Central House of Artists, Moscow
2006 «Gravitation», Show-room, St.Petersburg; Palermo Museum of Modern Art, Sicily
2007 « Juniper wind», Exhibition Centre of the Artists' Union, St.Petersburg, Museum of Modern Art KUMU, Tallinn, Estonia; Sarbonna University museum, France


Group Exhibitions (selectively):
1997, 1999, 2001 «Dialogues», «Manege» Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg
1994 The First Animalistic Exhibition, Labour Palace, St. Petersburg
1998 «Christmas bronze», Exhibition Centre of the Artists' Union, St. Petersburg
2001 «Fish image. Archetype and Artifact», Open Association of Modern Art, St. Petersburg
2003 and 2004 – «India image» exhibitions, Ethnography museum, St. Petersburg
2004 «Sounds and Symbols», St. Petersburg Creative Artists' Union
2005 «Equinox», St. Petersburg Creative Artists' Union
From 2005 – Exhibitions of «N.A.I.V» gallery, permanent participant
2006 Fresh Art Session, Petersburg – Moscow, City Sculpture Museum
2006 «Blanket for a champion», DiDi Art Gallery, St. Petersburg
From 2006 – all the exhibitions of creative association «Polyrealism», permanent participant
2007 took part in Symposium on Paper Sculpture(Koryzhma)
2008 «Paper Sculpture. Koryazhma – St. Petersburg», Exhibition Centre of the Artists' Union St.Petersburg
2009 «Captive at birds and beasts», Center for Books and Graphics, St. Petersburg
From 2006 – «Angel Imaging» exhibitions, Water Plant Exhibition Centre, permanent participant