Vera Vladimirovna Bakastova is an artist specializing in painting over porcelain. She was born in 1978.

Education: From 1997 till 2003 she studied in V.I. Muchina State Industrial Art Academy of the city of Saint Petersburg, in the Ceramics and Glass Faculty. In the year of 2011 she was nominated as Young Master of Porcelain and awarded a Franz Gattenberger Prize (www.helenika.ru) in this category.

She participated in the following:

• Christmas Picture. From Christmas Gifts cycle. The Hermitage State Museum (2013);
• «Tapir exhibition» Terres d’Aligre, Paris, France (2013);
• Small Forms exhibition # 8, Museum of Porcelain, Riga, Latvia (2013);
• Color and Shape, Gallery of Porcelain, Moscow, Russia (2013);
• Exhibition of Small Forms Arts, Museum of Porcelain, Riga, Latvia (2012);
• Easter in Saint Petersburg, The State History Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia (2012);
• Dialogue with Tapir, Maksla Gallery of Art, Riga, Latvia (2012);
• «The History of Russian Porcelain thorough the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory» (2012).

She participated in symposiums:

• International art project “Dialogue With Tapirs”, Evartava, Latvia (2012);
• Pogranicze Sztuki – Sztuka Bez Granic, Zduny, Poland (2012).