Svetlana Rumak is a professional artist and illustrator who currently lives and works in Istanbul.

Svetlana Rumak was born in 1969 in Poltava (Ukraine).
At 5 years old she moved to Russia with her family.

Svetlana graduated from the Arts Department of the Pedagogical Institute in Russia (1992).
She has been involved in exhibition activities since 1993.

Svetlana Rumak is a member of the National Professional Union of Artists of Russia (International Association of Art) and member of The Moscow Union of Artists «International Art Fond».

She has participated in more than 300 exhibitions in Russia and other countries.
Svetlana has had 10 solo exhibitions in Russia, the Czech Republic, Germany, the United States.
Svetlana has participated in 15 international art workshops and symposiums in different countries (Qatar, Turkey, Morocco, Bulgaria, Latvia, India, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Romania).

Svetlana Rumak’s works are in private and public collections in Russia and in more than 30 other countries.

Svetlana has developed more than 15 painting and mixed media techniques and has been giving more then 100 workshops in Russia and other countries since 2013.

Svetlana has illustrated two books by Lewis Carroll for the Publishing House «Arbor» (Moscow):
«Alice in Wonderland» (2009),
«Alice Through the Looking Glass» (2011).
Both books received praise among collectors and appraisers of limited edition books from different countries and were repeatedly published in Russian.

Since 2018, Svetlana has been a producer and a leading expert of her own international online art school, which has taught more than 5000 students from more than 40 countries.

creativity for me is a game that opens the fan of reality into millions of meanings

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2015 Red Bridge Gallery, Vologda, Russia
2011 Svetlana Sazhina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011 Arthaus Gezel Gallery, Wetzlar, Germany
2010 Art City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2010 «Dance with Me!», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2010 LesOreades Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2010 Object1 gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007 Fenn Gallery, Woodbury, USA
2004 Art City Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2004 exhibition hall of the M. Gorky Museum, Kazan, Russia
1999 Kamil Gallery, Kazan, Russia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, ART FAIRS and SYMPOSIUMS:

2023 Art Ankara International Art Fair, Ankara, Türkiye
2022-2023 international traveling exhibition of illustrators «Fox Spirit. Fox Charm», start of Estonian Children’s Literature Center, Tallinn, Estonia, Latvian National Library, Riga, Latvia, etc.
2022 Art Contact International Art Fair, Istanbul, Türkiye
2022 Art Fair Bodrum, Bodrum, Türkiye
2022 international exhibition, Altinova, Türkiye
2022 international exhibition «Art-Mir», Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2021 International exhibition-Fair «ART-Rostov», Rostov-on-Don, Russia
2021 exhibition «ARTSUMMER», exhibition center «New Tretyakovka», Moscow, Russia
2021 exhibition «Pro Women», exhibition center «Gostiny Dvor», Red Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 Artamarsana International Art Symposium, Egypt
2021 exhibition «Museum of Supernatural History», within the framework of the exhibition «Time of Dolls», exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 All-Russian exhibition «Art Rostov», Rostov, Russia
2019 international traveling exhibition of illustrators «It’s always Tea Time», Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia
2019 international exhibition «20\20», Casablanca, Morocco
2018 exhibition «Music», gallery «On Kashirka», Moscow, Russia
2018 exhibition «Antibiennale», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2018 exhibition «Portrait of a Cat», exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia,
2017 international art fair «AAF Genoa», Genoa, Italy
2017 International Art Symposium, Marrakech, Morocco
2017 exhibition at the gallery «Roten Hof», Vienna, Austria
2017 exhibition «Parajanov’s worlds through the eyes of contemporaries», House of Cinema, Moscow, Russia
2017 exhibition «Practices of the Non-Objective», gallery «A3», Moscow, Russia
2017 Exhibition «Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2017 exhibition of gallery «LesOreades», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2017 exhibition of the gallery «IZO Art Gallery», exhibition hall of the business center «Romanov Dvor», Moscow, Russia
2017 art project «Hand of God», together with Natalia Lepikhina, international festival of author’s dolls, Riga, Latvia
2017 exhibition «Horizon Line», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2017 exhibition «Abstract about the concrete», gallery «On Kashirka», Moscow, Russia
2017 Charity Christmas Exhibition-Auction, London, UK
2017 print market «Taste of Paper», exhibition center «Winzavod», Moscow, Russia
2016 international art fair «AAF Luxembourg», Luxembourg
2016 international art fair «AAF Genoa», Genoa, Italy
2016 All-Russian art fair «Art Perm», Perm, Russia
2016 exhibition «Air City», gallery «21st century», Moscow, Russia
2016 exhibition «Red and Black», gallery «On Kashirka», Moscow, Russia
2016 International Art Symposium «Ayla», Amman, Aquaba, Jordan
2015 International Art Symposium «Art Amalgamation», International Center «Art Of Living», Bangalore, India
2015 exhibition «Other Shores», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2015 exhibition «Itinera» of the gallery «Gall’Art Roma», art center «Complesso Monumentale dei Diaoscuri al Quirinale», Rome, Italy
2015 International Art Symposium, Amman, Jordan
2015 International Art Symposium, Romania
2015 International Art Symposium, Srinagar, India
2015 exhibition «CarismArte» gallery «Gall’Art Roma», art center «Complesso Monumentale dei Diaoscuri al Quirinale», Rome, Italy
2015 exhibition «About angels», Nosov’s mansion, Moscow, Russia
2015 exhibition «East-West», gallery «On Kashirka», Moscow, Russia
2015 exhibition «Landscapes of abstraction», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2014 art fair «AAF London», Balman gallery, London, UK
2014 exhibition Medici Gallery, London, UK
2014 exhibition «20 years later», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2014 municipal exhibition, Byala, Bulgaria
2013 International Art Symposium, Doha, Qatar
2013 International Art Symposium, Byala, Bulgaria
2013 international art workshop «Love. World. Friendship, Yeregli, Türkiye
2013 exhibition «Russian Spring», Medici Gallery, London, UK
2013 Spring Show Exhibition, Jorgensen Fine Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2013 Red Square exhibition, Origin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2013 international art fair «AAF Brussels», Brussels, Belgium
2013 international art fair «AAF London», Balman Gallery, London, UK
2013 exhibition «Winter Show», Balman Gallery, Corbridge, UK
2013 Spring Show exhibition, Balman Gallery, Corbridge, UK
2013 exhibition «Consonance», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2012 Graphic Fair «HudGraph», Exhibition Center «New Manege», Moscow, Russia
2012 International Exhibition «Emptiness», Marc Chagall Center, Vitebsk, Belarus
2013 Summer Show, Jorgensen Fine Art Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2013 international art fair «AAF Monaco», Monaco
2013 international art fair «AAF Milan», Milan, Italy
2011 International Art Fair «Art-Manege», exhibition center «Manege», Moscow, Russia
2011 international art fair «AAF Padua», Padua, Italy
2011 international art fair «BusinessArt», House of Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
2011 art fair «Artesania», exhibition center «New Manege», Moscow, Russia
2011 exhibition «Time of wanderings. Spain», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2011 exhibition The Fountain Gallery, Molesey, UK
2010 exhibition «Holiday of Life», gallery «LesOreades», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2010 International art fair «Art-Manege», exhibition center «Manege», Moscow, Russia
2010 Graphic fair «HudGraph», exhibition center «New Manege», Moscow, Russia
2010 Architect’sGallery exhibition, Teddington, UK
2010 Midsumme Art Fair, Landmark Art Center, Teddington, UK
2009 International Art Fair «Art-Manege», exhibition center «Manege», Moscow, Russia
2009 international art symposium, Baku, Azerbaijan
2009 exhibition «Another Reality 2», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2009 Graphic fair «HudGraph», exhibition center «New Manege», Moscow, Russia
2009 exhibition «Wandering Time», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2009 international exhibition «XII», Center for Contemporary Art, Baku, Azerbaijan
2008 exhibition «Another Reality», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2008 art fair «Moscow International Art Salon», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2007 ARCIMA gallery exhibition, Paris, France
2005 «Two Artists from Russia», Fenn Gallery, Woodbury, USA
2003 Exhibition «Avant-garde Traditions»,
State Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia
2003 regional exhibition «Big Volga», Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2001 exhibition «Art from Kazan», Zutphen, Netherlands
2001 exhibition «Golden Boys», Kazan, Russia
2001 art fair «Moscow International Art Salon», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2001 exhibition «Geography of New Realism», Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, Kazan, Russia
2000 exhibition «Classics and Modernity», Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

You Hold Me in Your Arms

Acrylic on canvas, 80х80 cm, 2023

I Need You

Acrylic on canvas, 70х60 cm, 2023

The Girl, the Knight and the Dragon

Acrylic on canvas, 70х70 cm, 2023

Lisa in the Clouds

Acrylic on canvas, 80х80 cm, 2023

Listen to Your Heart

Acrylic on canvas, D100 cm, 2023

What's Inside of Me

Acrylic on canvas, 80х80 cm, 2023

The Sleeping Girl

Acrylic on canvas, 100х100 cm, 2022

The Bound Girl

Acrylic on canvas, 100х100 cm, 2022

The Reading Girl

Acrylic on canvas, 100х100 cm, 2022

Talking Heart

Acrylic on canvas, 100х100 cm, 2021

The Monster of My Forgiveness

Acrylic on canvas, 100x100 cm, 2021

Secrets of Small Things

Acrylic on canvas, 50x50 cm, 2018

Portrait in a Red Dress

Acrylic on canvas, 80x70 cm, 2017

Girl in a Green Dress

Acrylic on canvas, 80x70 cm, 2017

Seeds of Light

Acrylic on canvas, 80х70 cm, 2017

The Hard Way to a Man's Heart is Through His Stomach

Acrylic on canvas, 60х60 cm, 2017

One Day Words

Acrylic on canvas, 80х80 cm, 2017

Green Pianos

Acrylic on canvas, 100х80 cm, 2017

Dream Together

Acrylic on canvas, 80x80 cm, 2017

The Jacket of Her Father, The Diary of Her Mother

Acrylic on canvas, 50x45 cm, 2017

Five Boxes

Acrylic on canvas, 70х70 cm, 2016

The Slow Universe

Acrylic on canvas, 60x60 cm, 2016

Who Are You Now

Acrylic on canvas, 60x60 cm, 2016

Flowers and Seeds

Acrylic on canvas, 80x70 cm, 2015

Without Gravitation 2

Acrylic on canvas, 90x90 cm, 2014

Girl with a Mirror

Acrylic on canvas, 70x60 cm, 2013

The Little Bird

Acrylic on canvas, 70x60 cm, 2012

Still Life with Cheese and Medallion

Acrylic on canvas, 60x60 cm, 2012

Portrait in a Landscape

Acrylic on canvas, 90x80 cm, 2012

Still Life with Mirror

Acrylic on canvas, 70x70 cm, 2011

Patience of Things 2

Acrylic on canvas, 90x80 cm, 2010