Bio
Born in Ivano-Frankivsk city, Ukraine. Graduated the Art Institute of the Carpathian National University (2005). Received a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture (2009, 2012). The winner of the Main Prize of the competition for young ukrainian artists MUHI (2012). Initiator and founder of Open Group (2012), with which won the First PinchukArtCentre Special Prize in (2013). Winner of the Dymchuk Gallery Open Call for Young Ukrainian Artists (2017), nominee of the PinchukArtCentre Award (2018). Curator of the Residence for Artists in Ivano-Frankivsk (2015) and the International Festival of Contemporary Art Porto Franko (2018). Curator and teacher of the contemporary art course in KAMA Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (2019-2022). Lives and works in London.
Selected solo exhibitions
2024 Hard to Describe, Voloshyn gallery, Miami, USA
2019 СЕ 049201, Voloshyn gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Action, Chech Gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2018 Down the Rabbit Hole, Closer Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Untitled, Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Beautiful exhibition, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 Laboratory of Friends, Children social-psychological rehabilitation centre, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2016 Ivano-Frankivsk Is Speaking, Psychiatric hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2016 We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for, Center for Contemporary Art, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2015 Sketches from nature, Port Creative Hub, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 Questions. An attempt of dialogue. And more of something important, Kyiv art gallery Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 Velvet Nothing, PROTVOR gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2011 Everything is identical with nothing, Dzyga gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2009 21 Freedom, Heppen Transfer gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Selected group exhibitions
2025 Looking into the Gaps II, Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, Ukraine
2023 Art and Life in Times of War, Wuerttemberg Art Association, Stuttgart, Germany
2023 Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Searches, Our Us, Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine
2023 How Are You? Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023 Camera Obcura, Voloshyn gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 DISSIAPATIO H.G. Massimo Ligreggi gallery, Catania, Italy
2022 On the Varge, Wetterling gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 What now?, Exhibitions Bureau/Polish Modern Art Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2022 What is Depicted Here?, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2022 When Faith Moves Mountains, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2022 Working Room, A:D: Curatorial, Berlin, Germany
2022 Working room, Independent Space Index 2022, Vienna, Austria
2022 Working room, Asortymentna kimnata gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2022 Yevgen Samborsky & Eliash Strongowsky, Reykjavic, Iceland
2022 Memory on Her Face, Miami, USA
2022 The Captured House, Berlin, Germany
2021 5 years ago, Voloshyn gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 II Biennale of Young Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019 City Scanning Session, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2018 Where Do We Go From Here? IZOLYATSIA, Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Exhibition of PinchukArtCentre Prize nominees, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Ostrale, International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany
2017 Show Promise, Lviv Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine
2017 Childhood dream, Arsenal gallery, Bialystok, Poland
2016 Archaeology, Margines gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2016 Art of Galicia ХХ century - early ХХI century, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2014 Postcards from Maidan, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2014 4 Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
2013 Ars longa, vita brevis (with Open Group), PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 Exhibition of the first Kyiv residence KYIV AIR, The National Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 Component of presence, Small Gallery of Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 UKRAINE NOW, Czech Centres, Prague, Czech Republic
2013 Introversion, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 MUHI-2012, MODERN ART RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 Factory overlooking the lake, Foundation for Promoting Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2012 Ukrainian Body, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 Shape of the void, Bottega gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 Limit, Week of Contemporary Art, Dzyga gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2011 Collective dreams, MODERN ART RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Kyiv, Ukraine
Scholarship, residencies, events
2018 Residence Zmina.Impulse, Bakhmut, Ukraine
2016 Residence Sorry We Have No Rooms Available, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
2015 Residence in Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
2013 First Kyiv residence program for artists - KYIV AIR, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 Initiation and founder Open Group, Lviv, Ukraine
2012 Gaude Polonia - Scholarship of Polish Ministry of Culture, Warsaw, Poland
2009 Gaude Polonia - Scholarship of Polish Ministry of Culture, Warsaw, Poland
Curatorial projects
2018 Porto Franko festival, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2016 Archaeology, Margines gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2015 Residence for Artists in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Awards
2018 Finalist of PinchukArtCentre Prize, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 The winner of the Open Call for young Ukrainian artists, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 First Special Prize of the PinchukArtCentre with Open Group, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 The winner of the Main Prize of the competition for young ukrainian artists MUHI, Kyiv, Ukraine