ABOUT

London based artist OLIA MANIZER
works in mixed media, creating 
paper sculpture for interior decoration. 

Olia's unique life-sized dolls are inspired by the enchanting 
world of circus and the XVIII century aesthetics.

Olga Manizer at her studio   photo Valeria Vygodnaya

2021 - winner of the Pandora Platinum 

VII International Contest of Dollmakers, nomination One of a Kind

2020 - 2021 - works on a series of life-size figures

 inspired by the circus of 1930 - 1940s

2019 - writes foreword for the book MANIZER Dynasty of Artists, 
published by the International Union of German Culture

2019 - 2020 - studies Portrait Painting in Oils
The Heatherley School of Fine Art, London

2018 - writes foreword for the catalogue Gugo Manizer,
published by the International Union of German Culture

2015 -2017 writes for TATLER Russia 
and ZIMA magazine, London

2015 - 2016 performs for Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop
at the West End LIVE - Trafalgar's Square, London

2015 - life-size dolls decorate the Russian Ball
Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London

2015 - winner of the Photography contest held by
the National History Museum, London

2014 - present - creates articulated life-size dolls

2014 - winner of the Photography contest held by the LivingEtc magazine

2012 - 2013 works on a series of illustrations for 

European and Russian fairy tales

2011 - 2012 - canvas prints and cards are displayed at
Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop, Covent Garden, London
BoboKids, Chelsea, London
Sue Walker, Walton Street, London
Russian Academy of Arts shop, Moscow

2010 - 2012 - works on Vintage Christmas,

a series of pencil drawings of children in fancy dress costumes

2009 - 2010 - The Victoria & Albert Museum shop commissions
cards for Maharaja and Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes exhibitions

2009 - MA in Textile Design - Chelsea College of Arts
University of the Arts London (UAL)

2008 - present - creates dolls

2007 - present - works in mixed media

2006 - present - does portrait photography

2000 - moved from Moscow to London

1997 - present - member of the Moscow Union of Artists
Член Московского Союза художников (МСХ)

1996 - MA (Hons) in History of Fine Arts  
Moscow Surikov Art University 
(МГАХИ имени В.И.Сурикова, красный диплом)

1995 - present - member of The Association of Art Historians
Член Ассоциации искусствоведов (АИС)

1995 - 2009 - creates felt tip drawings with a focus on pattern

1990 - 1996 - creates elaborate large scale pencil drawings

1989 - creates textile dolls and a series of ink drawings

1986 - present - modelling 

1985 - 1986 - Serov School of Fine Art #1, 
Prechistenka Street, Moscow

Olia had been modelling for Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Ungaro,
Jean-Louis Scherrer, Vivienne Westwood, Lapidus, Paco Rabanne, Christian Lacroix,
Donna Karan, Nina Ricci and other haute couture designers in Paris and Moscow

Olia works on her portrait photography project featuring people in the arts - since 2006

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Olia is the fourth generation of artists in the famous Russian art dynasty MANIZER

Mikhail Gorbachev chose a landscape by Olia's father, painter Gugo Manizer 

to adorn his cabinet during his presidentship

Olia's mother Nina Puliakhina is a talented costume and interior designer 

All statues at the Moscow metro station Ploshchad Revolyutsii were sculpted by 

Olia's grandfather, sculptor Matvey Manizer, 
who also created nearly 100 monuments around USSR and abroad

Grandmother, sculptor Elena Yanson-Manizer made unique portraits of Soviet

prima ballerinas - including Galina Ulanova and Maya Plisetskaya

Great-grandfather, artist Genrikh Manizer painted the official portrait of 

the last Emperor of Russia, Tsar Nicholas II