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About The Artist
Elena Erős
Elena Erős (pronounced: Erosh, which means "strong" in Hungarian) was born in Moscow, Russia. Her first art teacher was her father Boris Egorov, aircraft designer. She continued her art education with realist painter A. Motovilov. In 1971 she competed with thousands of other talented young people and after series of entry exams won a coveted place at the Faculty of Applied Art, Moscow State University of Design and Technology, where she studied under renowned Russian Artists. In 1973 Elena Eros was awarded an ‘Outstanding Student International Scholarship’, enabling her to continue her education at the Hungarian University of Art & Design in Budapest, Hungary, from where she has MFA in Men's and Women' Fashion Design.
In 1980 Elena Eros was invited to work as a professor assistant at Moscow University of Design and Technology. Later Elena Eros moved back to Budapest, where she worked as a Fashion Trend Coordinator, Fashion Designer, Lecturer and Illustrator for Hungarian Fashion Institute, Portrait Artist in Residence for Hungarian Medical Society, background painter for “Pannonia Film Studios” and was a freelance Artist and an Art Instructor.
Elena Eros introduced her unique ideas to the Fashion world and was a winner of numerous Hungarian and International Fashion Competitions, Fairs and Shows with her innovative designs and constructions.
Eros moved to Great Britain in 1996, where she became a frequent visitor to the local Windsor Race Course and other Equine Events with her sketch book and a camera. She was asked to paint scenes from famous Ascot Race Courses. Eros approached that classic subject matter from her fashion designer background. Her paintings were emphasizing decorative aspects of those spectacular events. Elena Eros's popular “Hats” series have become her signature paintings with unique perspective and stylized impressionistic interpretation of spectators and horses.
Eros came to the USA in 2006 and won International Drawing Competition for American Artist Magazine with a Portrait Study of her Father. Since then she has been participating in Juried Exhibitions Nationally and Internationally.
One of the most important parts of her interest remains horses. Elena Eros has been painting horses of different breeds and types, participating in various Equestrian events. She loves drawing and painting human figures and implementing equestrian scenes with people. She also take portrait commissions and works in the area of Spiritual Art, creating symbolic images inspired by Biblical stories.
Currently Elena Eros has returned to her fashion designer works in textile, creating wearable art with the images of her paintings on various clothing.
The artist loves Arizona, where she lives currently and works from her studio. Elena Eros has been teaching art in Prep Colleges, Schools, community centers achieving amazing results with her students.
In her spare time Elena Eros loves meeting with her friends, gardening and hiking with her puppies.
selected exhibitions
. 2022 --- Juried International Show, Arizona Pastel Artists Association, Phippen Museum, Prescott
- 2021 --- “Hold your horses”, Invitational Exhibition, Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ
- 2021 --- Biennale, National Juried Exhibition, Hilton Head Island, SC
- 2021 --- Arizona Pastel Artists Association, National Juried Online Show.
- 2021 --- International Guild of Realism, Spring Online Juried Show.
- 2020 --- Phippen Museum, Prescott, 7th Annual Hold Your Horses! Invitational Exhibition.
- 2020 --- International Guild of Realism, 2020 Spring Salon Online Exhibition
2020 --- American Academy of Equine Art, Annual Juried Exhibition, Aiken Center for the Arts
2020 --- Glendale Art Counsel Juried Exhibition, Glendale, AZ
2020 --- “With Angels and Archangels”, Juried Exhibition of Sacred Visual Art, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana
2019 --- “America's Horse in Art”, Invitational Exhibition & Auction, American Quarter Horse Museum & Hall of Fame, Amarillo, Texas
2019 --- “Hold your horses!”, Invitational Exhibition, Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ
2019 --- “Equine Art 2019” The Campbell Award for oil, 3rd Place, Washington Thoroughbred Foundation, Emerald Downs, WA
2019 --- Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show, Juried Artist
2018 --- "Equine Art", The Campbell Award for Oil, Emerald Downs, Auburn, Washington
2017 --- 7th Annual Online, Plein Air Salon Art Competition (“Blue Rhapsody”), Plein Air Magazine
2017 --- Sola, Grace-Faith-Scripture, National Juried Exhibition of Sacred Visual Art, Good Shepherd Institute, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana
2017 --- Oil Painters of America 26th Annual National Juried Exhibition (“Tender Beauty”), Eisele Gallery Cincinnati, OH
2016 --- Salon Show of Traditional Oils, Oil Painters of America (“Hunter”), Castle Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
2015 --- American Academy of Equine Art, Invitational Juried, Spindletop Hall, Lexington, KY
2014 --- The Horse...& a Whole Lot More”, Emerald Downs, Auburn, WA, Poster Award2013 Equine Art
2013 --- Equine Art 2013, 1st Place, Emerald Downs, WA, The Campbell Award for Oil Painting
2012 --- Salon International, Juried Exhibition, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2011 --- Merit of honor – Portrait Artists of Arizona, Juried Exhibition , Gamage Auditorium, Tempe, AZ
2010 --- Judeo –Christian International Juried Online Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Special Recognition & Press Release.
2009 --- “Blue, red …” – Juried exhibition, 2nd Place, SunDust Art Gallery, Mesa, AZ2008
2008 --- “Go Figure”, Juried Exhibition, Brio Art Center, Scottsdale, AZ
2007 --- Solo Exhibition, Superstition Mountain Museum, AJ, AZ
2006 --- "Shades of Pastel", National Juried Exhibition, the Maryland Pastel Society, St Charles Museum, Washington DC
2005 --- Winner of the International Drawing Competition, American Artist Magazine, published in a winter issue of 2006
