I am a Russian-to-English translator who specializes in texts related to the arts. I spent several years working in the Translation Department of The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, where I translated the texts that accompanied our exhibitions and provided guidance throughout the localization process as the sole native English speaker on staff.
In 2008, I graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College, where I studied Russian language and literature, art history, and writing. I also studied translation theory and linguistics at St. Petersburg State University, and I studied Russian culture and politics at European University at St. Petersburg. I have been working as a translator since 2009. In 2018, I moved to California to study at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in the Translation and Localization Management program, where I have continued my translation studies.
I work primarily with museums, galleries, curators, artists, and academics, but I have also translated legal and marketing texts. I have contributed translations to dozens of books on subjects ranging from the history of Romanovs to Russian cuisine to the most current contemporary art, and I can bring this wide range of expertise and experience from living in Russia and working in the Russian art world to your translation project. You can email me at translation at vanessaprolow.com or use the form below.
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