Katya Granova (1988), born in Leningrad, graduated from the Psychology Department of St. Petersburg State University, then worked as a medical psychologist in a hospice. She began painting in her first years at the university, later completed the MA Art & Space Master's program at Kingston University, a one-year course (Certificate) at Paris College of Art, returned to Russia, where she began active exhibition activities, became one of the founders of the self-organization APXIV. In 2018, she went to study again at the Royal College of Art MA Painting, now lives in London and plans to receive an Exceptional Promise visa. Nominated for prizes: Bankley Art Prize, Bridgeman Studio Award, Art Rooms, finalist of the Signature Art Prize competition in the painting category.
At the moment, painting is the main media in Katya Granova's work.
Painting is her main tool. In her works, the artist explores the relationship between painting and photography as forms of documentation of experience and memory. “Even from the faculty of psychology, I was interested in the construction of the past, personal and general.”

Katya Granova