Vadim Dolgov is a contemporary Toronto based Canadian artist with a traditional academic background. Russian born he began drawing and painting since his childhood and later graduated from the Orenburg Academy of Fine Art and Design. His sensual figurative works, high-powered celebrity portraits, and award-winning landscapes made him widely renowned among connoisseurs. Award of Excellence at Oil Painters of America (twice), Gold Medal Award at OPA, works in permanent exhibitions in Museums, including showing in the Tretyakov National Gallery (Museum) in Moscow, Russia.