Viktoria Ganhao

Award-winning abstract artist Viktoria Ganhao was born in 1971 in Kyiv, Ukraine, into an artistic family where creativity was not a hobby but a way of seeing the world. From an early age, she developed a visual sensitivity that would later become the foundation of her painting practice.

Before fully committing to art, Viktoria spent 17 years working in the international fashion industry and building entrepreneurial ventures, living in seven countries and traveling extensively. This period shaped her refined sense of composition, color harmony, and material awareness — qualities that remain central to her work today. In 2016, she made a decisive shift to focus exclusively on painting, marking the beginning of a clearly defined and continuously evolving artistic career.

Travel plays a fundamental role in Viktoria Ganhao’s practice, not as a subject to be depicted, but as a catalyst for self-discovery. Her paintings translate lived experiences into abstraction, capturing memory, emotion, and atmosphere as reflections of an evolving inner world. Each body of work functions as a visual archive — a record of encounters, movement, and personal transformation — where external places become internal landscapes. While rooted in her own exp...

Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Ukraine

Solo
2023 XIV Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy 2023 Art Expo Algarve / Portimao, Portugal
2022 Creative Freedom / CB Art Space, Porto, Portugal
2021 Perception / The Lux Gallery - Abrantes, Portugal
2020 Colors of Nature / Cineteatro - Benavente, Portugal
2019 Abstractions / The Lux Gallery - Portimão, Portugal
Group
2022 Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Art Expo Algarve / Mar Shopping, Loule, Portugal
2022 LuxExpo Luxembourg
2022 Israeli Art Market. New Year Exhibition. Israel
2021 Week of Women in Art / City Hall - Tbilisi, Georgia
2020 Art Nordic Art Fair / Lokomotivvaerkstedet - Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 International Contemporary Art Exhibition / The Lux Gallery - Portimao, Portugal 2019 ARTSHOPPING / Carrousel de Louvre - Paris, France
2019 Sussex Art Fair / Brighton Racecourse - Brighton, United Kingdom
2019 Summer Exhibition
2019 / The Old Truman Brewery - London, United Kingdom
2019 Paysage / SAS Lausanne - Lausanne, Switzerland
2018 Nature / Swiss Art Space, exposition internationale d'art contemporain - Lausanne, Switzerland