Biography

Olga Krimon was born in Odessa, Ukraine, and received her academic art education in Kazan, Russia. She continued her development in America through drawing classes with Glen Orbik and painting classes with Jeremy Lipking, and holds a BA in Art History from Davidson College, NC, and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Her work is grounded in traditional realism but moves beyond it. Figures, florals, and ceramic forms are not static subjects — they are atmospheres of presence and quiet. Compositions are carefully orchestrated: edges manipulated, forms lost and found, passages of precise drawing emerging through broken color and shifting texture. Structure is fundamental. But she is not copying reality. She is refining it.

In recent years she has extended this language into ceramics — balancing tactility, restraint, and material sensitivity across mediums, with a consistent interest in the poetry of surface.

Krimon is represented by Reinert Fine Art, Charleston, SC, and The Whitethorn Gallery, Clifden, Ireland. She is a Signature Member of the Portrait Society of America and Oil Painters of America.

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Selected Awards

  • 1st Place, Drawing, Portrait Society of America (PSoA) 18th Annual International Portrait Competition, 2016

  • 4th Place, Portrait Society of America (PSoA), 23rd Annual International Portrait Competition, 2021

  • 3rd Honor Award, Portrait Society of America (PSoA) 16th International Portrait Competition, 2014

  • Honorable Mention, 17th Art Renewal Center (ARC) International Salon Competition, 2025

  • Finalist, MEAM Barcelona Figurativas 2025

  • Certificate of Excellence, Portrait Society of America (PSoA), Annual International Portrait Competition 2023, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2011

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Selected Exhibitions

  • Arcadia Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY

    • “Male Of The Species” Group Exhibition, 2021

    • “5 And Under”, Group Exhibition, 2018

    • “VRFA Americans in Paris”, Group Exhibition, 2018

  • Reinert Fine Art, Charleston, SC

    • Ongoing representation and Solo Exhibitions, 2014-present

  • The Whitethorn Gallery, Clifden, Ireland

    • Ongoing representation and Solo Exhibitions, 2019-present

    • Art Source RDS Dublin International Art Fair, Dublin, Ireland, 2022

  • New Salem Museum and Academy Of Fine Art (NSMA), New Salem, MA

    • International Competition Finalists, Group Exhibition, 2025

  • Hancock Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England

    • Solo Exhibition, 2022

  • Cole Gallery, Edmonds, WA

    • “One Story’s Not Enough”, Group Exhibition, 2023

  • Abend Gallery, Denver, CO

    • “Contemporary Figuration”, Group Exhibition, 2016 and 2021

    • “30th Annual Miniature Works Exhibition”, Group Exhibition, 2021

  • Portrait Society of America (PSoA)

    • Art of the Portrait Conference, Finalist Exhibition, 2014, 2016 and 2021 (moved to online due to Covid)

  • Oil Painters Of America (OPA)

    • “Virtuosos of the OPA”, Group Exhibition, Cutter & Cutter Fine Art, St Augustine, FL, 2019

    • National Juried Exhibitions and Salon Shows, Group Exhibitions, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017

    • Western Regional Juried Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions, 2010 and 2014

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