SOLO PROJECTS & EXHIBITIONS
Works with AI-assisted processes as part of her visual research.
2026
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Art Russia Fair, Moscow, Russia
Daria Kurilova works primarily in oil painting, combining classical techniques such as alla prima and glazing. Her practice explores mythological imagery, transformation, and the interaction between the human inner world and symbolic archetypes.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
PRACTICE
2026
Art Director, Producer, Graphic Designer. Specializing in visual concepts, key visuals, and multidisciplinary projects across fine art, fashion, and digital media.
Art Russia Fair, Moscow, Russia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
AWARDS
Cheboksary Art School, Russia
2024
EDUCATION
Winner, Russian Art Week (Classical Painting Competition)
Born in 1990, Kurilova is an art director, producer, and painter. She studied classical painting and developed a multidisciplinary practice that bridges fine art, design, and moving image. She is a laureate of Artlife Fest (2022) and the Russian Art Week (2024). Her works have been presented in major contemporary art contexts, including participation in Art Russia. Kurilova lives and works between disciplines, continuing to expand her visual language through both traditional media and new technologies, including AI-assisted processes.
2022
The surfaces of her works possess a refined materiality, where light seems to emanate from within the pictorial space. This subtle luminosity enhances the sense of transition — between states, worlds, and identities — that defines her artistic language.
Artlife Fest, Moscow, Russia
Her compositions are imbued with a quiet tension: purity coexists with danger, light with shadow. Recurring motifs — such as animal figures and childlike characters — act as carriers of deeper symbolic meaning, inviting the viewer into a contemplative dialogue. Kurilova’s paintings function as visual metaphors, posing open-ended questions about growth, loss, and the preservation of inner essence in a complex world.
2024
Working primarily in oil using a synthesis of classical techniques and contemporary sensibility, Kurilova builds her images through a delicate balance of immediacy and refinement. Her process merges alla prima with glazing, allowing forms to emerge gradually, as if revealed rather than constructed. At times, the image appears fully formed in the artist’s inner vision; at others, it evolves intuitively through color, rhythm, and atmosphere, capturing states of mind, emotional landscapes, and intangible sensations.
Russian Art Week, Moscow, Russia
Daria Kurilova’s painted visions unfold as luminous allegories, where fragile archetypal figures inhabit a world poised between myth and reality. Drawing from the language of ancient legends, fairy tales, and collective memory, her works explore transformation as both a personal and universal process. Ethereal characters — often embodying innocence, vulnerability, and inner light — encounter symbolic forces that echo the complexities of the human condition.
2022
Artlife Fest, Moscow, Russia
