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Marharyta Zhurunova, an artist from Ukraine. Born on November 29, 1994 in Vinnytsia. 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 — Master's degree, 2018
- Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria — 2023
- Climate Adaptation for Creatives, Black Mountain College & British Council — 2024–25
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 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
Selected Group Exhibitions
- A4, BALLPOINT — Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2015–2018
- Space of Borderland — Soviart Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2018
- Greater Space — Yermilov Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2019
- Contemporary Art Competition Named After Natan Altman — Vinnytsia, Ukraine, 2018
- Second Biennale of Young Art — Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2019
- All-Ukrainian Biennial of Levkas — White World Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019–2021
- Observations — White World Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020
- Form of Space — Port.agency & LCD 044, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020
- M17 Sculpture Prize: Roots and Pollen — M17 Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2020
- Lacuna International Contemporary Art Festival: Distance — Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, 2021
- Mykolaiv ART Week: CONNECT! — Mykolaiv, Ukraine, 2021
- ART Kuzemyn Residency Exhibition — H. Semiradsky Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2021
- Time of War. Reflections — Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine, 2022
- Invasion. Before and After — Wrocław & Kraków, Poland, 2022–2023
- Kunstausstellung // pARTner Residence — Feldkirch, Austria, 2022
- The Art of Resistance — University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 2022
- The Art of Resistance — Museu d’Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni, Vilafamés, Spain, 2023
- Indicators — Dzyga Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine, 2023
- Inner Landscapes — ERSTE Foundation, Vienna, Austria, 2023
- Day after Day — atelier19, Paderborn, Germany, 2023
- Day after Day — Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Bibliothek, Berlin, Germany, 2023
- Day after Day — Galerie LeonART, Nuremberg, Germany, 2023
- Concentration of the Will — M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023
- Sculpture Week — Palace of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine, 2023
- Kyiv Biennial — Uzhhorod, Ukraine, 2023
- Spaces. Borders. Frontiers. — Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023
- Formula of Resilience — M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2024
- OASIS? — Palace of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine, 2025
- Unframed — BASIS, Silandro, Italy & SILENCIO, Turin, Italy, 2025
- Frieden — Museum Bruder Klaus, Sachseln, Switzerland, 2025
- OASIS? — Palace of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine, 2025
- Garden of Ideas — Avangarden Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2025
- White Noise — Shum Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine, 2025
- Precious Things — Avangarden Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2025
- The Other Nearby — Korsaks' Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Lutsk, Ukraine, 2026
- Cloud Storage — M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2026
Print Biennials
- International Exhibition of Small Graphic Forms "Graphics MINI SPACE" — Lviv, Ukraine, 2015
- ESTAMP'15 — Lviv, Ukraine, 2015
- Graphics. Progress of the Young — Lviv, Ukraine, 2015
- Brest Print Triennial — Brest, Belarus, 2015
- VII Biennal Internacional d'Ex-libris Contratalla — Tarragona, Spain, 2015
- Małe Triennale Grafiki Myślenice — Myślenice, Poland, 2015
- International Biennial of Graphic Arts "Leopolis" — Lviv, Ukraine, 2016
- Bucharest International Print Biennale — Bucharest, Romania, 2017
- International Contest of Small Graphics and Exlibris Ostrów Wielkopolski — Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland, 2019, 2021
- 20th International Print Biennial Varna — Varna, Bulgaria, 2019
- 17th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms — Łódź, Poland, 2020
- International Virtual Engravist Printmaking Biennial — Online, 2020
- Biennial of International Art Museum Timișoara — Timișoara, Romania, 2020
- International Ex-libris Competition Finland — Naantali, Finland, 2020
- Second International Mini Print Triennial "Intaglio" — Kyiv, Ukraine, 2021
Land Art
- International Land Art Festival "Mythogenesis" — Vinnytsia, Ukraine, 2015–2021
- International Land Art Symposium "Borderline Space. Mogrytsia" — Mogrytsia, Sumy Region, Ukraine, 2016–2021
- Khortytsia Land Art Festival — Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, 2016
- Ex. Plein Air: Remote Access — Chernihiv, Ukraine, 2017
- 86 Festival, Land Art Program — Slavutych, Ukraine, 2017
- Yakunin Series: "Luft Pause" — Lviv, Ukraine, 2017
- Land Art Festival "Spider Web" — Odesa, Ukraine, 2017
- International Festival of Arts of the Carpathian Region "Carpathian Space" — Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 2018
- International Land Art Symposium "Land of Power" — Tustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve, Urych, Ukraine, 2018
- Land Art Festival "Nature and Art" — Vilnius University Botanical Garden, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019
- CONTRmyf Land Art Scholarship — Ukraine, 2022
- Landart and Archaeology: New Synergy Across Borders — Akmenė, Lithuania, 2022
Residencies
- MC6 Residency — Slavsko, Ukraine, 2019, 2024, 2026
- ART Kuzemyn Residency — Kuzemyn, Sumy Region, Ukraine, 2021, 2023
- pARTner Residency Program — Feldkirch, Austria, 2022
- Hata-Maisternya (Creative Europe) — Ukraine, 2022
- Navigation Program — Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine, 2023
- ICA Residency (Artists at Risk) — Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy, 2023
- ArtsIceland (Culture Moves Europe) — Ísafjörður, Iceland, 2023
- HOME Residency Program — Graz, Austria, 2023
- Slow River House — Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, 2024
- CreArt AiR — Galerías VA, Valladolid, Spain, 2025
- CopperLeg LOORE AIR (Nordic Culture Point) — Tallinn, Estonia, 2026
- McKinney International Artist-in-Residence — Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA, 2026