Ramazanov, Renat

Renat Ramazanov was born on September 15, 1978 in the town of Vyshniy Volochek in the Kalinin Region of Russia.

The naturally-gifted artist entered  art school in Alushta, Ukraine in 1988, studying under Gleba Nikolai, and finishing in 1993 with honors. He went on to attend the Crimean Art College in Simferopol, Ukraine named after Nikolai Samokish. While at the College, his professors included Lev Balkind and Professor Goloborodko. He graduated in 1998, receiving the highest possible honors for his diploma work, The Antique Store.

His fluid, confident style of impressionism was influenced by such notable masters as Ilya Repin, Nikolai Fechin and the Crimean artist, Fedor Zakharov. They are often characterized by a strong color palette reflective of the warmth and abundant light present in the Southern Ukraine.

His works are in numerous private collections in the Ukraine, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Cyprus and the United States. Gallery Russia has carried his works since 2004. His works are in the permanent collection of the Livadia Palace Museum in Yalta, Ukraine where Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin signed the Yalta Accord.

Today, Ramazanov lives and works in Southern Ukraine on the Black Sea Coast of Crimea.

He most recently participated in the group exhibition, ″The Russians are Returning″, Charlotte, North Carolina, Elder Art, September, 2010.