Pekhova Ekaterina K. was born in the city of Murom, Vladimir region. From 1929 to 1942 she lived in Leningrad, where, together with her mother, she suffered the blockade. Then she was evacuated to the Kirov region, and later to Central Asia. On returning to Leningrad in 1945, she studied first at the theater department of V.A. Serov, then at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of I.E. Repin. In 1960, she graduated from the Institute and moved to Karelia, where she had an internship before. She lived and worked in the city of Petrozavodsk and the village of Gomselga.
Since 1966 she participated in national and international exhibitions, in 1971 she was accepted into the Union of Artists of the USSR. She was the People’s Artist of the Republic of Karelia (1992).
In Petrozavodsk she actively participated in all republican art exhibitions. In addition, she participated in exhibitions of Karelian art in Leningrad, Moscow, foreign countries (Finland, Germany, France, Japan).
