Project Description
Nikolai Blokhin
Only three years after graduating from the prestigious St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and finishing his postgraduate studies, Nikolai began his own teaching career, including time as a Professor of Drawing at the Repin Academy. His paintings are part of numerous international museum and private collections. Nikolai has been the recipient of many awards, including a Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Arts, the Grand Prize in the 2002 International Portrait Competition of the American Society of Portrait Artists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Best of Show in the 2004 International Portrait Competition of the Portrait Society of America.
