Xenia is a talented artist who specializes in creating illustrations for children's picture books and commercial purposes and painting abstract works. Her pieces are featured in private collections all over the globe and are showcased in exhibitions.
Xenia obtained a culturology and cultural anthropology degree from Samara State University of Education. Since 2015, she has been working on various editorial, advertising, and book illustration projects.
Exhibitions:
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- Archstoyanie Festival + Victoria Gallery, 2024
- Festival of Book Illustration and Visual Culture Berrywaterfest, 2024
- Volga Book Fair, ExpoVolga, 2024
- Book Illustration: Myths, Fairy Tales and Ethnic Fantasy, 2024
- I'm home, Space13 Gallery, 2024
- Winged letters, 2023
- Zherdela fest, 2023
- Zin-Zin fest, 2023
- buZINa, 2023
- Abstract, Art Show International Gallery, 2022
- Color, Art Show International Gallery, 2021
- Abstract, Art Show International Gallery, 2021
- New Artists, Gallery Victoria, 2021.
- Character design and illustration exhibition "Characters", 2021.
- Personal exhibition "Self-attitude", 2021.
- Festival of Book Illustration and Visual Culture Berrywaterfest, 2020.
- New Artists, Gallery Victoria, 2020.
- Apartment triennial, 2020.
- Book illustration exhibition "In the world of Chuvash legends and fairy tales", 2019.
- Author's New Year and Christmas postcards exhibition, 2018.
Clients:
- Dravet syndrome Foundation USA,
- Amazon,
- Barns&Noble Press,
- KIT Publishing House,
- Clever Publishing House,
- Filcher & Cherdobryak kids magazins,
- BHV Petersburg Publishing House,
- Paddle Marco LLC,
- Stardust kids magazine,
- Icon Aerospace LLC,
- Poppy Cakes,
- Bunch Box Flowers etc.
Grants/Awards: - Talent Prize Award, Abstract, Art Show International Gallery, 2021
- Honorable mention Award, Color, Art Show International Gallery, 2021
- Story Monsters Book Award, 2022
Education:
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- Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Art History, Samara State University of Education, 2008
- School of Book Illustration, 2016
- School of Contemporary Art Studio Quadro, 2020
- Oil painting intensive course by Oksana Stogova, 2025
- The Life Inside Brainopolis, Dr. Karon Schnitzer, 2021
- The Mean Foal: A story about respect, mutual appreciation, and acceptance, Almaris Alonso-Claudio, 2021
- Foxey and the Cupcake Championship, Kimberly Weeks, 2020
- My sibling is special. Tips for children who have a sibling with a rare epilepsy, Nicole Stangel, MA, MS, LPC, NCC, CT, 2020
- Chuvash folk tales, 2019
- Princess Noa Is Not Sorry, Ashley Brook, 2021
- All gardens tell a story, Chanell O'Rourke, 2021
- Does God have legs, Taneisha Harper, 2021
- Goodnight Marco Island, Glenn Livesey, 2022
- Good morning Marco Island, Glenn Livesey, 2022
- Picture book "100 first words", Clever Media Group, 2023
- Picture book "100 cars", Clever Media Group, 2024
- Chess for kids, Clever Media Group, coming soon
Publications:
- Interview for the online edition SOM "Three stories of Samara artists", February 2021
- SG Press New Artists. The Victoria Gallery Opened a New Season, 2021
- Samara GIS Space interview without words, March 2021
- Art agent mag №2 Author's style, 2023
- Sobaka ru Samara And here are the results of the art open call! 2025
What can I draw for you
- commercial illustration;
- editorial illustration;
- children's picture book illustration;
- fairy tale illustrations;
- illustrations for children's poems;
- editorial illustrations;
- board games illustrations;
- illustrated maps;
- postcards, stickers, posters for a cafe, shop, music group, company, etc.
- design for websites, blogs, landing pages and online stores: illustrations, icons, avatars and banners;
- design for social networks: YouTube and Facebook banners, avatars, icons, illustrations for posts and Instagram stories, etc.
- stickers for Viber, WhatsApp and other messengers, VK, FB, Tick tok, Snapchat, Pinterest etc.
- wedding invitations,
- wedding portraits,
- love story comic book, guest books,
- wedding maps,
- bottle labels,
- cake toppers, garlands, wedding banners.
- Pattern design of children's clothing, bed linen, stationery.
