Marharyta Zhurunova, artist from Ukraine. Engaged in printed graphics, installation, and graphics transitioning into installation. Explores the sacred and the non-human-made. Works with themes of emotional trauma and ways to deal with it through artistic methods.

Since 2015, she has been working in co-authorship with Bohdan Lokatyr in the field of environmental, site-specific art.

In 2019, both artists became winners of scholarships of the President of Ukraine for young writers and artists, and received a grant from the President of Ukraine.

Finalists of the contemporary art competition named after Natan Altman (Vinnytsia, 2018), Second Biennale of Young Art (Kharkiv, 2019), M17 Sculpture Prize: Roots and Pollen (M17 Gallery, Kyiv, 2020), Kyiv Biennial (Uzhhorod, Ukraine, 2023).

 

Education

Ukrainian Academy of Printing, Department of Book and Easel Graphics

(2018 – Master’s Degree)

Summer International Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg (2023, Salzburg, Austria)

Climate Adaptation for Creatives (2025, online course by Black Mountains College & the British Council)

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Solo shows:

Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local History, Ukraine, 2016

Khmelnytsky Regional Art Museum, Ukraine, 2017

AkademART Gallery, Sumy, Ukraine, 2018

Lviv National Literary Memorial Museum of Ivan Franko, Ukraine, 2018

Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local History, Ukraine, 2019

ART Gallery Basement of the Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Ukraine, 2019

Vilnius University Botanical Garden, Lithuania, Vilnius, 2019

Assortymentna kimnata gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 2023

Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine, 2023

International center for the arts in Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy, 2023

Edinborgarhúsið, Ísafjörður, Iceland, 2023

Stedley Art Foundation, Kyiv, 2024

Galerías VA, Valladolid, Spain, 2025

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