1962

An artist working in various media: photography, video, installation, painting, and graphics. Born in 1962 in Moscow. In the late 1980s, Olga Chernysheva was a member of the Free Workshops community on Furmanny Lane (Workshop No. 70). In 1986, she graduated from the Film and Animation Department of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). Since 1989, she has been a member of the Moscow United Committee of Graphic Artists. In 1996, she graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. Since the second half of the 1990s, photography has become the artist's primary medium. The works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Collection of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow, the Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, USA, the Library of MOMA, New York, USA, and in private collections in Russia, Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, France, and Sweden.