Olga resides and works in London and Paris.
EDUCATION
2014–2016 Royal College of Art, Painting MA, London, Great Britain
2011–2012 Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, Visual Art, London, Great Britain
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Track II (collaboration with Ahmad Fuad Osman), DRC no. 12, Beijing, China
2023 The Friendship Garden, Studio Voltaire, London, Great Britain
2023 Olga Grotova, Cromwell Place, London, Great Britain
2023 Door to Door, The Shophouse, Hong Kong, China
2023 I’ll Tell My Daughter - Film Exhibition, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2019 Debris on a Luminous Plain, Centrala, Birmingham, Great Britain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Re-enchantment, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2023 Abstract Reality, Kadist, Paris, France
2023 Traces of a Cathode, S1, Sheffield, Great Britain
2022 Our Grandmothers’ Gardens, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2022 Meeting Photography, NIDA, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 Friendship Garden Audio Project, Silence, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2022 Unicorn and the Lost Kingdom, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 The Fifth Wave, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2021 Olga Grotova, Josefina Nelimarkka, and Alexander Montague-Sparey, Cromwell Place, London, Great Britain
2020 Apparent Movements, Gromov Culture Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 Carrying Histories, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway
2019 Waters of the Volga, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway
2019 Sans (T)rêve Et Sans Merci, Cube.Moscow Art Venue, Moscow, Russia
2018 XVII. The Age of Nymphs, Mimosa House, London, Great Britain
2018 The First Reading (Performance), Mimosa House, London, Great Britain
2017 Blue. 17, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 Seventeen, Centala, Birmingham, Great Britain
2016 RCA Degree Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, Great Britain
2016 Notes App, Dyson Gallery, London, Great Britain
2015 WIP show, Royal College of Art, London, Great Britain
2015 RCA Secret, Dyson Gallery, London, Great Britain
2013 Tamizdat, New Holland Island, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 Megabodega, Family Business Gallery, New York, USA
2012 Performance, Ritual, Symbolic Action: Rite as Play, Hayward Gallery, London, Great Britain
2012 A Joyful Archipelago’ Guest Projects, London, Great Britain
2012 A Spring That We Have All Been Waiting For (Performance), Guest Projects, London, Great Britain
2012 Coup D’Etat, Arthaus, London, Great Britain
2012 Guest from the Future, Galerie8, London, Great Britain
RESIDENCIES
2024 Dragon Hill, Mouans-Sartoux, France
2023 Schoeni Projects, Hong Kong, China
2023 Centre Recollects, Paris, France
2022 Cosmological Garden, CAD+SR (led by Pelin Tan and Rirkrit Tiravanija), Spoleto, Italy
2020–2021 Syllabus VI, Wysing Art Center in collaboration with Spike Island, Iniva, Studio Voltaire Gallery and Eastside Projects Gallery, Great Britain
2019 PRAKSIS, Oslo, Norway
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2022 Prix Decouvert, Les Rencontres d'Arles (special mention)
2021 Space Artist Award
2021 DYCP Award
2021 Field Research Grant from Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
2021 Grant from Elephant Trust Fund