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Nina GalitskaiaNina Galitskaia is the daughter of the university professor father and sculptor mother and was raised in the atmosphere of art studio and scientific studies.

She received Masters of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine and Theater Arts of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, Republic of the Soviet Union. She is actively involved in the art world of Russia–she is a member of the Saint-Petersburg Union of Artists, Union of Russian Artists and the International Academy of Humanities. Nina has participated in numerous exhibitions in Russia and abroad, and her works belong to public and private collections in Russia, Europe and North America. Her artworks are featured in the catalogues of the International Art Fairs of the 20th Century. She is a laureate of Special Prize of Artists Union of Russia –1988. In 1996, she was awarded a Grand-Prix of International Art Festival organized by The Hermitage Museum & Department of Art and Culture of Russia. Nina Galitskaya s works stand-alone among the highest echelon of achievement. She is recognized worldwide and ranks in the Who Is Who of Russian Personalities magazine (2002 Russia issue) Recently she lives and works in Montreal, Canada .

Nina Galitskaia has attained an artistic acumen unparalleled in the creative world of painting and sculpture. Her still life works resonate with somber passion: her floral paintings, some delicately pastel yet powerful by virtue of an almost three dimensional palette knife and brush technique, while others are post modernism-sleek contemporary compositions with a flat translucent vibrancy. Nina's artworks is intellectual art rich with a harmony of colors and symbolism. She is an author of an unprecedented sculpture “Moloch of Totalitarianism”, which was the first sculpture to commemorate the victims of reprisals in Soviet Union. In 1996 the sculpture was bought by the government of Saint- Petersburg and installed in Levashovo Memorial Cemetery.