Tatiana Kryukova

Born in 1967 in Sukhoy Log, Sverdlovsk Region, Russia.
Graduated from the Ural College of Applied Arts in Nizhny Tagil (1985) and from the Nizhny Tagil State Pedagogical Institute (1999).

Since 1991, she has been teaching at the Children’s Art School in the city of Lesnoy. She is a regular participant in local exhibitions, pedagogical biennales in Yekaterinburg and closed administrative territorial cities (ZATO), as well as national plein air events in Sochi, Senezh, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Karsun, Kirov, and Chusovoye. She actively shares her teaching experience through workshops and presentations at regional and national events.

Since 2016, she has participated in numerous international ex libris exhibitions, including in Russia (Vologda, Ufa), Italy (Bosia, Vodo di Lomanago), Poland (Gdańsk), Bulgaria (Ruse, Varna), China (Guangzhou), Romania (Bacău), Serbia (Apatin), North Macedonia (Skopje), Brazil, and Lithuania.

In 2017, she held a retrospective solo exhibition titled “The Joy of Creativity” as part of the Teacher–Student project, which received wide acclaim from both local residents and colleagues. That same year, she joined the International Union of Art Teachers and took part in an international plein air workshop in Vladimir together with her students.