Shahrai, Serafima Vasilievna

Serafima Vasilievna was born in 1905 . Her childhood and youth passed in the Vladimir region . In 1924, she married Alexander Osipovich Shakhrai , later the first secretary of the Kyrgyz Regional Committee of the CPSU (B.). In 1934 she entered the Moscow Art Institute. V.I. Surikova . Immediately after defending the diploma in 1941, she was sent to the construction of defense lines, and also worked in the defense and poster brigade of the art institute. In 1942 she joined the Moscow Union of Artists (MOSH) . In the early 1980s, she headed the Creative Environments club at MOSH, where each club meeting was dedicated to the work of a particular artist.

As a material, S.V. Shakhrai used, as a rule, pastel, watercolor, and gouache. Her work covers several areas: Old Moscow, South River Port , Landscape , Crimea , Pleshcheevo Lake , Still Life . Her works were exhibited in the Manege , the Central House of Artists , galleries in other cities, and were repeatedly awarded with diplomas and certificates.

1951 - Group exhibition of women artists, members of MOSSHA ^[1]
1957 - The third exhibition of watercolors by Moscow artists ^[2]
1957 - Exhibition "Moscow Socialist in the Works of Moscow Artists" ^[3]
1957 - The first exhibition of prints by Moscow artists
1958 - All-Union Exhibition of Prints ^[4]
1960 - The second exhibition of prints by Moscow artists
1967 - Artists of Moscow to the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution
1969 - Exhibition of works by women artists of Moscow. World Congress of Women Dedicated
1974 - Exhibition of paintings and graphics for International Women's Day March 8
1975 - Exhibition of works by Moscow artists
1975 - Women artists of Moscow. World Congress of the International Year of Women
1976 - Autumn exhibition of works by Moscow artists
1977 - Exhibition of works by Moscow artists to the 60th anniversary of the Great October Revolution
1977 - Exhibition of paintings and graphics for International Women's Day March 8
1977 - Republican art exhibition 60 years of the Great October Revolution
1978 - Exhibition of paintings and graphics for International Women's Day March 8
1979 - Exhibition of paintings and graphics for International Women's Day March 8
1979 - All-Union Art Exhibition "Blue Roads of the Homeland"

• Shakhrai Serafima Vasilievna on the site "REGISTER OF PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS of the Russian Empire, the USSR, the" Russian abroad ", the Russian Federation and the republics of the former Soviet Union (XVIII – XXI centuries)"