Born in Moscow in 1969.
Education:
1982–1987 Moscow State School of Fine Arts
1987–1992 Graduated from VGIK (Russia Academy of Cinema), Set Design Course
1994–1996 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Traditional Japanese Painting and Design course
Katya draws her pictures with a simple pencil. She draws for a long time, in great detail, and very scrupulously. She draws simple objects – buckets, plates, typewriters, trees. But behind these normal things that we have all known since childhood hides an entire universe. Each image balances on the border between extreme concreteness and true abstraction. The large-scale format of her easel works and the technical luxuriousness of her classic drawing skills generate an unusual effect.
Katya developed under two traditions – the Moscow school of painting of the 1970s and traditional Japanese calligraphy. From these two phenomena, both very folk-like in nature, her works have acquired a quality that leaves behind the national and the temporal in art. After leaving the art department at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, she won the Japanese Monbuso scholarship and went to intern at the Tokyo Academy of Arts for two years. This strange turn of events allowed Rozhkova to master thematic and non-thematic painting, which would come to shape her unusual creative method.
Participant of international fairs, biennials and festivals, including Art Miami, The Armory Show and ARCO
She lives and works in Peredelkino, Moscow region.
Solo exhibitions
1995 – Kuso Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 – Brocken Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997 – Manege Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1998 – State Museum of Oriental Arts, Moscow, Russia
2000–2003 – Artek Gallery, London, UK
2002 – East Meets West Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2003 – ARTPLAY Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 – Elena Vrublevskaya Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 – ARTPLAY Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2008 – Elena Vrublevskaya Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2010 – MUAR (State Museum of Architecture) with YAKUT gallery, Moscow, Russia
2012 – ROZA AZORA gallery, Moscow, Russia
Group exhibitions
| 1989–1992 – Annual Art Shows of Young Artists of Russia — Moscow, Russia |
| 1994 – Art Modern Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2000 – Berkeley Square Gallery, London, UK |
| 2001 – East-West-South-North, Moscow, Russia |
| 2004 – EUROGRAPHIC, Krakov, Poland |
| 2006 – A little flemish story, Vrublevskaya Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – RUSSIAN REALISM–XXI century, The State Russian museum, St Petersburg, Russia |
| 2016 – Art on paper, London, GB — Russian art of beginning of 2000s from collection of
Seminikhins — Cultural foundation EKATERINA, Moscow, Russia |
| 2018 – Melting, Gridchinhall, Cube.Moscow, Russia |
Сollections
Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Petrocommerts Bank, Moscow, Russia
Cultural Foundation Ekaterina
Museum of Modern Art, Novosibirsk, Russia
Aviva Collection, London, UK
Fleming Foundation, London, UK
Private collections in Russia, Japan, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, France, Israel & Great Britain
