Alevtina
Dmitrievna Pyzhova

Russia • 1936−2021

Biography and information

Born in 1936 in Moscow in the family of a serviceman. Has secondary education. Worked as a Secretary, technician, custodian, administrator in theaters. Currently in retirement. Since 1958 was constantly drawing. Participant in a traveling exhibition of the Museum of naive art: "Pushkin's images in creativity of naive artists of Russia", exhibited in 1999 in nine cities of Russia and in Cannes (France) Palais des festivals.

In 2002, the Museum of naive art in Moscow hosted the first solo exhibition. Works are in the collections of the Museum of naive art in Moscow, private collections in Russia and abroad.

(Source: website of the Museum of naive art)