Portfolio

ALEXANDRA URYASOVA

Portfolio · 2019–2025 · Paris

alexandrauryasova@gmx.fr · alexandrauryasova.com · artmajeur.com/alexandra-uryasova

SELECTED WORKS

Inside the Studio · 2024–2025

The series was created to show the process of art being born from within — through the artist’s own eyes. Alexandra opens up the space of her studio to the viewer as an ephemeral state of creation, where intuition, thought, doubt and inspiration collide. Each painting reflects a moment of inner searching — the transition from chaos to form, from uncertainty to revelation.

The Small Beauty of the World · USA, 2023

The series was inspired by a trip to the United States. The artist finds beauty in the ordinary details of the American street — signs, fire hydrants, lifeguard towers, stations. Each object is presented from an unexpected angle, transformed through intense colour and a personal technique.

From the series for the Espace Turquoise exhibition at the UN Ocean Summit · Nice, 2025

This work was created specially for the Espace Turquoise exhibition held at Port Marina Baie des Anges, Villeneuve-Loubet, as part of the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference.

ARTIST STATEMENT

ON PRACTICE

I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. But I became an artist not when I learned to hold a brush correctly, but when I began to see: that a yellow fire hydrant on a street corner can be as monumental as a cathedral, and a road sign can say more about a place than any postcard.

The conceptual core of my practice is what I call the small beauty of the world. I am interested in what usually goes unnoticed: the peeling paint on a sign, the grass breaking through asphalt, the texture of a wall you only see if you stop. Through them, I speak about memory, belonging, and the way we inhabit space.

I work from real scenes — the streets of Los Angeles, Parisian markets, the harbours of the Côte d’Azur — but I do not reproduce them. I transform them through colour. I feel close to Matisse and the Fauves, to David Hockney and Edward Hopper.

The series Inside the Studio grew out of a question: what matters more — the result or the process? Real art lives in the process itself — in the doubts, the reworkings, the unexpected discoveries. By depicting canvases, easels, and tools as primary subjects, I invite viewers into that space of searching usually kept hidden.

ON INTENT

I want viewers, after encountering my work, to begin noticing what they previously walked past. Because it is in these details that the story of a place lives: its character, its life, its particular way of being in the world.

ALEXANDRA URYASOVA

Visual Artist · Paris, France

alexandrauryasova@gmx.fr · alexandrauryasova.com · artmajeur.com/alexandra-uryasova

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Visual artist based in Paris. Born 26 October 2001, Ulyanovsk, Russia. Connected to France since childhood. BA, Paris American Academy (Interior Design), 2024. Registered artiste-auteur since February 2025; works protected via INPI. Exhibited with The Holy Art Gallery (London / New York / Athens / Berlin).

ARTISTIC PRACTICE & STYLE

Contemporary figurative expressionism with pop art elements — inspired by Hockney, Hopper, and the Fauves. Concept: the small beauty of the world. Ongoing series Inside the Studio (2024–2025): the creative process as subject matter.

MEDIUMS

Acrylic · Acrylic markers · Oil · Watercolour · Pastel · Mixed media · Digital art

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025   The Holy Art — Paris Open Art, Paris 75003

Series: Inside the Studio · International catalogue The Holy Art Gallery

2025   Espace Turquoise, Villeneuve-Loubet

2025 UN Ocean Conference · ARTICHOC certificate

2024   L’Amérique dans les détails

Gymnasium DAR, Ulyanovsk · 13 works

2021   Aquarium

Youth Contemporary Art Centre, Ulyanovsk

2019   All in all

Creative Space Kvartal, Ulyanovsk · First solo exhibition

PRESS / PUBLICATIONS

2025   The Holy Art Gallery International Catalogue

Distributed to collectors and curators worldwide

2023   Monaco et la Côte d’Azur, Issue 128

Interview: Seeing the World with Loving Eyes

2023   VAK Journal, No. 2

Article on eco-projects and art

EDUCATION

2024   Paris American Academy, Paris

BA Interior Design · Workshops: Rome, London, LA, Paris, Nice, Cannes

RECOGNITION

2024   AKOUN Certificate

Commended by Jacques-Armand Akoun, international art expert

2023   Member, Union of Creative Artists of Russia

2023   1st Prize — Golden Brush / Alliance Française

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Early works, publications and full achievements: alexandrauryasova.com

LANGUAGES

Russian (native) · French (fluent) · English (professional)