Evgenia Makarova (b. 1984) is a contemporary abstract artist based in Aylesbury, United Kingdom.
Working in acrylic and oil, she builds surfaces where colour behaves as movement rather than form. These fields are then challenged: a line drawn across them, a structure imposed, a mark that resists the atmosphere it inhabits. Neither the field nor the structure is allowed to win.
The paintings are stopped before they resolve. What remains is the argument itself, left open.
Born in Russia, Makarova moved to the United Kingdom in 2023 after receiving endorsement from Arts Council England. Her work has been shown in Vienna, Athens, London, Mexico City and Moscow, and is held in private collections across Europe and the United States.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 The Matrix, Art Remix Studio, London, United Kingdom
2022 Elimination of Norms, Newnow + Blanar Art, Moscow, Russia
2022 Female Gaze, Galerie Am Roten Hof, Vienna, Austria
2021 The Bath Open Art Prize, 44AD artspace, Bath, United Kingdom
2021 AIR Open, AIR Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2021 Tactile Sublime, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Screenings and Festivals
2024 Night of Ideas: Sound Experiments, French Institute / CCI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
2022 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), Video Art, Athens, Greece
2022 Fotogenia Film Poetry & Divergent Narratives Festival Vol. 4, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 Wild Out Video Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Motion Pictures International Film Festival, Alberta, Nigeria
2022 3rd One Hour International Short Film Festival, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2022 Poetry Film Live, United Kingdom
2022 Bomba Video Club, Bomba Gallery, CCI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
2021 VII Festival Video nodoCaRACAS, Caracas, Venezuela
2021 Acropolis Remix — Embraces: Utopian Proximities, The Wrong Biennale n.5
Art Fairs
2023 PORT ART FAIR, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2022 BLAZAR Young Contemporary Art Fair, Moscow, Russia
2021 WIN-WIN II, Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Collections
Private collections in the United Kingdom, United States, the Netherlands, Austria, France and Russia
Corporate collections through ARTIQ, London
Corporate exhibition programme, Little Van Gogh, London and South East, United Kingdom,
2025–2026
Awards
2022 Global Talent endorsement (Arts and Culture), Arts Council England, United Kingdom
2021 Shortlist, Tāctus, 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece
2021 Shortlist, Fresh Legs, Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Berlin, Germany
2020 Honourable Mention, 3rd Abstracts, J. Mane Gallery, Voorhees, USA
Selected Press and Publications
2023 House & Garden
2022 Afisha London, “Lilia Bakanova and Evgenia Makarova: artists who are not afraid to experiment”
2022 ART Uzel, “Evgenia Makarova. The Art of the Catastrophic Times”
2022 Syg.ma, “Normal or Abnormal?”