Nadia Russ

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Nadia Russ is a Ukrainian-born Russian artist. She and other art professionals and art critics call her unique style of visual arts "NeoPopRealism", a term which she created in 2003^[1]. NeoPopRealism combines brightness and simplicity of pop art with deep realism, high color energy and graphic nature.

Russ had her first exhibit in the Manege in Moscow in 1989 and her first American art exhibit in 1992. Russ lives in the United States and in the Bahamas. Her art has been profiled in many trade and top art publications^[2]. NeoPopRealism as new style in visual arts mentioned in New York Arts magazine^[3], ArtNews magazine^[4]. Manifesto-presentation of NeoPopRealism made through M magazine publication in April, 2004^[5]. At the end of 2006 and beginning of 2007 her works were collected by several Ukrainian art museums, such as Simferopol, Sumy, Lebedyn art museums, D. Burliuk Foundation. Later her work appeared in collections of Ukrainian Museum in New York, in MOYA (Museum Of Young Art in Vienna, Austria), in World Erotic Art Museum (WEAM) in Miami Beach, Kinsey institute (Indiana University.) April 2007, she founded online NeoPopRealism Journal.