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Sculptress, painter, graphic artist, applied artist, photographer. Born in the family of Ivan Apukhtin in the town of Sumy in the Ukraine (1941). Graduated from the Lviv School of Applied Art (1960) and the Higher School of Art and Industry in Moscow (1967). Lives and works in Moscow. Contributed to exhibitions (from 1969). Contributed to the exhibitions of the First Creative Unification of Moscow Artists at the Kashirka Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1988), Valentina Apukhtina, Nikolai Zheltushko, Annamukhamed Zaripov, Larisa Naumova, Victor Skalkin, Lyudmila Soshinskaya: Painting and Sculpture in the House of the Artist at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1989), Scientific-Technical Revolution in Fine Art at the House of the Artist on Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1990), Contemporary Artists to Malevich at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1991), Art Myth 2 at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1991), Large Pointed Triangle at the Kuntsevo Cultural Centre in Moscow (1992), Super-Thing at the Krosna Gallery in Moscow (1993), Anschlag Gallery at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1994), Today Gallery at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1995), Museum Space of Kuznetsky Most in the House of the Artist at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1995), Kaliningrad-Königsberg 96 Fourth International Biennale of Easel Graphic Art in Kaliningrad (1996), Paths of Paper at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1996), Pereyaslav Dialogues at the Today Gallery in Moscow (1997), Image and Sign at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1999), Metamorphoses of Paper at the Museum of Personal Collections of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow (2001), Paper Sculpture at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001), Abstraction in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02), Photo-Graphic at Novosibirsk Regional Picture Gallery/Novosibirsk Museum of Art in Novosibirsk (2002, 2003, 2005), Moscow Abstraction: Second Half of the 20th Century at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (2003), Heaven: Ten Points of View at the Sam Brook Gallery in the Vysotsky House on Taganka in Moscow (2004), Photobiennale 2004 at the Club on Brest Street in Moscow (2004), Purest Abstraction ‘05 at the pop/off/art gallery in Moscow (2005), Collage in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2005–06), Yellow Pages at the Kovcheg Gallery in Moscow (2006), Text-Image-Code at the M’ARS Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow (2006), Adventures of the Black Square at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2007), Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2007), Paths of Paper 2 at Proekt_Fabrika in Moscow (2008), 100% Black Square at the pop/off/art gallery in Moscow (2008), Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2009), Between Object and Non-Objectivity at the Belyaevo Gallery in Moscow (2009), Around the Relief at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow (2010), Air at the Darwin Museum in Moscow (2010), South Russian Biennale of Contemporary Art in Rostov-on-Don (2010), Easter in the Chekhov House: Contemporary Art on the Resurrection in the Chekhov House at the New Manège Exhibition Hall in Moscow (2011), Movement, Form, Dance at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2011), Exhibition of Soviet Medallic Art in Helsinki (1987–88), Group Exhibition in Budapest and Moscow (1989), Painting on Paper in London (1990), Sources in Turkey, Italy and Israel (1990), Anglo-Soviet Exhibition at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1990), Seventh Indian Triennale in New Delhi (1991), Exhibition of Medals at the Kungliga Myntkabinettet in Stockholm (1991) and one-woman shows at the Today Gallery in Moscow (1991), Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1992), Central House of Scholars in Moscow (1995), Union Gallery in Moscow (2002), Krokin Gallery in Moscow (2003), pop/off/art gallery in Moscow (2008) and Foundation of Generations Art Gallery in Khanty-Mansiisk (2010).