Mykola Mudryk

Born in 1987 at Kremenets, Ukraine. Lives and works in Nantes, France. Resident at the Ateliers Bonus.


I explore the representation and transformation of the body, its eroticism and mysticism as imagined in Byzantine orthodox pictorial language and iconographic codes, as well as the mythology and folklore of The Ukrainian Carpathians.

Currently in my practice I use the technique of egg yolk tempera on different materials: canvas, wood, wall, textile and traditional Ukrainian embroidery. Emphasis is placed
on the execution of the work as the layered application of multiple colours and the resulting mixtures, are what determine the final form that emerges. I also explore architecture and the layout of spaces in sacred places to design the spatial structures of my paintings and their installations.
Through these wefts I re-interrogate, I mix, I deconstruct and I rethink this ancient traditional technique, to transcribe it in a new contemporary reflection and painterly expression.

2019 Master’s degree, Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique, option Art avec Mention pour la qualité de la peinture, École Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Nantes / St-Nazaire
2017 Bachelor’s degree, Diplôme National d’Art Plastique, option Art avec félicitations du jury, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes / St-Nazaire
2015 Bachelor’s degree, Painter-Restorer, Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukraine
2011 Master’s degree, Lawyer, National Economic University of Ternopil, Ukraine

2022 Solo exhibition Brûlures l’Espace 18, Nantes, France
2021 Group show Novembre à Vitry Galerie Municipale Jean-Collet Vitry-sur-Seine, France
2020 Solo exhibition Side A Side B Ateliers Bonus, Nantes, France
Layers On Layers, Restitution of a duo residency with Laura Orlhiac
Atelier Alain Le Bras, Nantes, France
2019 Group show Go West
Open School Galerie, Nantes, France (alumni exhibition, curator Clémence Agnez)
2018 Group show FFFF (Furthest
Foreign Free Factory), projet Wind, Campus d’école des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Suncheon, South Korea
Group show De la zone humide
où naissent les images
Open School Galerie, Nantes, France
2017 Group show Fin de Party
École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
Group show St’ART up, 2ème édition. Galerie Gaïa, Nantes, France
2016 Group show St’ART up Galerie Gaïa, Nantes, France
2015 Duo exhibition with Taras Popovych Présence, Gallery of Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukraine
2013 Solo exhibition Reflet
Alliance Française, Lviv, Ukraine
Group show Icon Art, Four Seasons Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine