Kazantseva Oksana Nikolaevna

Oksana was born in the village of Yak-Bodya, but lived and grew up in Izhevsk. Since childhood she dreamed of becoming an artist. Many works created in her childhood won prizes in various competitions, for example, little Oksana sent her drawing-illustration for the fairy tale "Pinocchio" to the TV show "Visiting the Fairy Tale", which was a favorite of all children at that time.

When she started to study at school, she went to the Izostudiya in the Palace of Pioneers, then went to the 9th School of Arts. And after graduation, she entered PU 9 in the city of Engels, Saratov region, to specialize as a decorative artist. She graduated with a red diploma. In 2005, working at the National Center of Crafts and Decorative and Applied Arts, she entered the Faculty of Arts at UdSU, majoring in "Theory of History of Folk Art Culture".

About 30 years Oksana has been engaged in painting and all areas of DPI, to which she is very grateful to her grandmother Elizaveta Semyonovna, it was her grandmother who managed to instill a love of creativity in an extremely restless child.

Oksana is now a freelance artist, creating for her own pleasure, although she has worked in many organizations, including Kama-Art (miniature painter), PE Nina (miniature painter), Gallery (specialist in art painting), National Crafts Center (leading methodologist in painting).

Oksana has many awards:

2006 Saransk, All-Russian exhibition-fair of folk arts and crafts of Finno-Ugric peoples.

2007 Yoshkar-Ola - Diploma winner of the interregional festival of national costume.

2012 Kirov - Diploma winner of the interregional exhibition of modern handmade toys "Vyatskie smertiny"

2014 Glazov, Museum-reserve "Idnakar" - 1st place in the competition "Treasures of Idna"

2014 Moscow, "Rus masterovaya" - Special Diploma.

2015 Izhevsk - Acknowledgement for participation "World Dumpling Day"

2015 Izhevsk - Certificate of Merit of the Ministry of Culture

2015 Moscow - Diploma winner of the All-Russian exhibition "Doll in national costume"

2016 - Diploma winner of the international competition of knitting masters "Lace Setu"

2016 Moscow-London, International Competition "ETHNO ART FEST" - 2nd place

2017 Moscow - Diploma winner of the ethno-cultural Festival-Competition "ETHNO ART FEST 2017" Moscow tour

2018 Moscow - 1st place for the personal exhibition in the nomination "Preservation of folk traditions" in the International Ethno-cultural Festival "ETHNO ART FEST 2018"


Oksana's personal exhibitions are also quite a lot:

G. Sarapul 2017, the exhibition became a traveling exhibition, and up to 2018 traveled to the districts of Udmurtia.

G. Izhevsk 2018 VC "Gallery" - exhibition "One matryoshka, two matryoshka"

G. Izhevsk 2019 "National Center for Tourism and Crafts" - Exhibition "Beautiful to live"

G. Izhevsk. Moscow 2018 "Particles of folk soul"


In addition, Oksana is not ignored by television:

2006 OTRK "Yugra" popular science film "Revival of Art", directed by Zhuravlev VM.

Report on the channel "My Udmurtia" August 2009 with Igor Babushkin

Article "Light in the eyes of people" 2011 AiF

"Z:echbur" 2017 article "Ubo no kyryzh medaz luy"

2018 program on the channel "My Udmurtia" with Angela Mazi

"Z:echbur" 2019 issue 24