Dasha Shkurpela

Originally from Kyrgyzstan, Dasha Shkurpela lives in New York and works in painting, drawing and sculpture. She has exhibited her work internationally since 1995. Twice she was a finalist in the Miami University National Young Sculptors Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award and received the George Sugarman grant in sculpture. Her artwork has been published in periodicals Studio Visit and Chicago Art Journal and catalogues Fine Arts of Kyrgyzstan, Moscow: Galart, 2013, and Fine Arts in Kyrgyzstan, AUB, 2007. Over 200 of Dasha’s works can be seen her website
Her works are in private collections in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Germany, the United States; in the collections of Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, and American University in Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Dasha writes arts criticism and explores past and present of the former Soviet space through looking at objects that remained. Her essays have been published in Shirkah - The Magazine of Islamic Finance, Economics and Culture, Switzerland, Fiction Advocate, American Society of Clinical Oncology Post, and Visible Ink 2017 Anthology. She is shortlisted for the Notting Hill Editions essay prize 2017.

Master of Fine Arts (2002), Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
(American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowship 2000 – 2001)
Two-Dimensional Arts (Painting)

MA in Central European History (2000), Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
(Soros Foundation / Full Central European University MA Fellowship 1999 – 2000)
Thesis: Kazimir Malevich’s White on White

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (1999), American University in Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Full tuition waiver
Summa cum laude, valedictorian

Portraiture, Orenda Art Works, Long Island City, NY, July 2021 (upcoming)

Structured Spaces, Dodomu Gallery, New York, April 2021 (upcoming)

Solo show, Artifact, New York, January, 2020

New York Public Library, Harry Belafonte 115th St. Branch, New York, 2019, December - January, 2019

Fall Salon, LIC Arts Open Gallery at the Factory, Long Island City, NY; November 12 - December 6, 2019

New York Public Library, Harry Belafonte 115th St. Branch, New York, 2019, November 2019

Summer Exhibition, LIC Arts Open Gallery at the Factory, Long Island City, NY; June 20 - July 26, 2019

Giant Steps, LIC Arts Open Gallery at the Factory, Long Island City, NY; January 10 - February 8, 2019

Fall Salon, LIC Arts Open Gallery at the Factory, Long Island City, NY; November 2018 - January 2019

Dreaming in Blue and Green, LIC Arts Open Gallery at the Factory, Long Island City, NY; 2018

WHO. ARE. YOU? (Re)Presentation and Challenge, Atlantic Gallery, New York, 2018

PostTotal, Kyrgyz State Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, 2017

MAAC on the MAP Contemporary Art Exhibition Series Edition I, Manhattan Art and Antiques Center, New York, NY, March 2017

The Evolving Phoenix, Phoenix Gallery, New York, January, 2017

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