A man and a woman wearing wide-brimmed hats taking a selfie outdoors in a wide-open landscape with a partly cloudy sky.

O&A Ivanov are proudly represented by 

Howell Gallery  OK

Saks Galleries CO

Victory Contemporary  NM

Bio

Olga and Aleksey Ivanov are the internationally acclaimed husband-and-wife artist team whose fine art paintings are found in exclusive galleries and collections around the world. Today they live and work in Colorado, in a studio nestled high up in the Rocky Mountains, where they find inspiration every day in the natural Western beauty surrounding them.


In the early days of their career, they experimented with mastering a host of mediums, but it was when they explored the European Renaissance, learning the beauty, grace, and poetic harmony of egg tempera and gilding that they knew they had found their highest passion. They love the challenge and extreme level of detail demanded by this highly  sophisticated medium, the way it commands their full attention and the perfect blending of skill and sensitivity.

They both work on every painting and have done so in total harmony for a quarter of a century.

They approach each painting with an open heart, building up the surface with thousands of tiny strokes, one on top of the other, to develop depth and luminosity. Egg tempera dates back to early Greek and Roman art and they love being part of that continuum.

Building upon history, they feel they are singing a contemporary song using the beauty, grace, and elegance—the visual poetry of Western images—of an ancient tradition.

LATEST AWARDS

  • 2025  “Western Spirit” Best of Show, Cheyenne Old West Museum

  • 2024 Coors Western Art Young Guns Honorable Mention by Art of the West magazine

  • 2024 CAE CO First Place

  • 2023 50th Anniversary National Rocky Mountain Watermedia 1st place

  • 2023 CAE members show "Best of show"

  • 2022 National Rocky Mountain Watermedia Second place

  • 2022 "Western Spirit" Best of Show Cheyenne Old West Museum WY

  • 2019 "Best of the Show" in watercolor medium, Cheyenne Old West Museum, WY

  • 2018 National Rocky Mountain Watermedia Exhibition, 4th place

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

  • 2025 "Blooming West" Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK

  • 2022 "Southwest Sun",  "Victory Contemporary", NM

  • 2022 "Pixel and StrokeHowell Gallery, OK

  • 2021 "I and WELittleton Museum, CO 

  • 2019 "Going West"   Saks Galleries CO

  • 2019 "Harvest"  Howell Gallery  OK

  • 2014 “Cheers for Chairs,” Saks Galleries CO 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2020-2024 "Small Works Great Wonders" National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City

  • 2021-2024 exhibitions and auctions, CM Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT

  • 2019-2025 "Western Spirit" Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum WY

  • 2015 “The Magic of Realism” Saks Galleries, Denver, CO

  • 2014 American Art Invitational, Saks Galleries, Denver, CO

  • 2014 American Society of Traditional Artists (ASTA), Scottsdale, AZ