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 Yelena Tylkina was born in 1965, in the City of Orsha, Vitebsk Province, Belarus. The Vitebsk Province has given birth to some of the world’s most famous artists of the twentieth century, such as Mark Chagall, El Lissitsky, Lazar Khidekel, to name only a few. It was in Vitebsk that the great Kasimir Malevich fathered the Suprematist Art group (UNOVIS) that made a lasting mark on Modernism.
Yelena Tylkina had her first exhibition at the age of 13. She completed all her Art education in Russia and Belarus with honors. Her studies in Art included oil, acrylic, watercolor and pastel painting, graphics, sculpture, murals, and portraiture.
In 1989, she immigrated to United States and lives in New York City.
She has won several awards and honors for her contribution to the Art world nationally and internationally and her art work is included in many private and corporate collections all over the globe such as The McDonald House, Inc., The Princess Lucie Jadot Parvas Foundation, Van Cleef & Arpels, Inc., The National Association of Women Artists of America, Inc., King’s Fine Arts, Inc., Ferregamo,Inc., Donald Kuspit, Evegeny Leonov, Mikhail Gorbachev and many others.
She has five T.V. and radio appearances to her credit, and over twenty articles in numerous art magazines and newspapers such as the “Noticias de Arte” Spanish language art newspaper, “Manhattan Art International” magazine, “Russian Bazaar”, “Metro”, “Forward”’ “Evening New York”, “Hellas News”, and others. Her work has been exhibited in several museums in the United States. Those include:
The C.A.S.E. Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, New Jersey;
The City University of New York, Queens Borough College Art Museum, Queens, New York;
Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane, Washington;
Jemison- Carnegie Heritage Hall Museum, Talladega, Alabama;
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, Maryland;
The Coral Springs Museum of Arts, Coral Spring City Center, Florida;
The Ann Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida.
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