Biography
Olha Kuzyura was born in 1990 in Mostyska, Lviv region. In 2013 she received a Master’s degree in Design at the National University of Forestry. From 2013 to 2016 she studied in postgraduate school at Lviv National Academy of Arts. She has been a Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 2017. Winner, of the second special prize in the Young Ukrainian Artists' competition MUHi 2021.
She works with visual arts, text, in the fields of experimental and traditional graphics, painting, installation. She is an author and participant of numerous projects in Ukraine and abroad, in particular in the USA, Germany, Italy, Poland, Croatia. She has experience working in international residences in Ukraine and abroad. In her artistic practices she turns to autobiographical motives in the context of collective self-consciousness. Working with the phenomena of collective and individual memory, she explores the gaps in her own history. She lives and works in Lviv, Ukraine.
Solo exhibitions
2024
"Temporary constructions" gallery Dzyga, Lviv (objects, collages)
2021
"Common Memory. Act щf Remembrance" Within The International Project Modernism For The Future, Local Residence Inlviv, Ukraine
2020
"Lost Presence" Korsak's Museum Of Ukrainian Contemporary Art, Lutsk, Ukraine
2018
"Amnesia" Project "Triptych Art" Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Lost Presence" Gallery Dzyga, Lviv, Ukraine
2017
"Shadow / Body" Gallery Lnam, Lviv, Ukraine
2016
“Mandmade Body” Gallery “Products”, Lviv, Ukraine
2015
“Incarnation” Gallery “Green Sofa”, Lviv, Ukraine
Group exhibitions
2024
“The Soil under My Nails Reminds Me of Dried Blood” Art Svit gallery, Dnipro (Ukraine)
"Embodiment" as part of the "My Territory" project, Center for Intellectual Art Merkury, Lviv (Ukraine)
“Reconsideration of Oblivion“ PTT Space, Taipei (Taiwan
“The Soil under My Nails Reminds Me of Dried Blood” The Naked Room, Kyiv (Ukraine)
"Between farewell and return" Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv (Ukraine)
"Atelier of dreams" Ukrainian House, Kyiv (Ukraine)
"Under the common skin" within the "Landscapes of memory" project, Digital Art Center. Taipei. Gallery 101 in collaboration with AVAT. Taipei (Taiwan)
"Lost presence" and "Stay safe" at Art Formosa Fair in Taipei. Gallery 101 in collaboration with AVAT. Taipei (Taiwan)
2023
Presentation of the "Loss" installation within the framework of the "Struggle" project at Art Vilnius, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania)
All-ukrainian bienale of levkas, CAC "White World", Kyiv (Ukraine)
"Landscapes of memory", Ukrainian project at Taiwan Annual. Gallery 101 in cooperation with AVAT
"Unbreakable" The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA Chicago), Chicago (USA)
"Horizons / Orizzonti" Ex - Asillo Ciani, Lugano (Switzerland)
"Unbreakable" Ukrainian Institute of America, New York (USA)
2022
Exhibition of participants of the "Istambul Artist Residency". Presentation of the installation within the "Home" project, Akaretler 37/39, Istanbul (Turkey)
"Relative security" project presentation within the exhibition of MUHI 2021 prize winners: In progress, Ukrainian centre at the embassy of Ukraine in France, Paris (France)
"Relative security" in the framework of the Pop Up The War Series at the Imagine Point gallery, Kyiv (Ukraine)