Masha Pasichnyk

I have been painting for as long as I can remember. For me, it is a process that results in a still story, that leaves you a broad field for personalization. Mine is a story with very intuitive development. I chose, but not limited, acrylic on canvas as a medium I work with.

Every day I practice in delivering content to the viewer. I think I try to stick to realism as this style is the most comprehensible. It is also a means of communication and contact with people by allowing them to relate easier. I hope everyday approaches me to the point when one can feel by looking at the painting: laugh or cry..(I prefer people smiling, though).
I admire interconnection of every aspect of human culture and the way each one of them moves the whole in one direction, influencing each other. A particularly long time I spent looking at the painting The Sleeping Gypsy by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau. The same captivation for me has Pieter Bruegel, Egon Schiele, Andreas Gursky and Elizabeth Peyton. But the most aspiring experience, accept for personal conversations with people I look up to, and who I truly believe shape our identities by sharing their baggage through an attitude, was probably the improvisational cinematographic language of...

2013 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine, Masters of Fine Arts

2011 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2017 Gallery Russia
2016 Penske Racing Museum 2015 Penske Racing Museum
Formula I Gran Prix; Monaco
2014 Formula I Gran Prix; Monaco
2013 “Psychedelic Nonconformism”, 8Bit Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2016 Art Under Fire, Brooklyn NYC;
A4, Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine;
PCA Flight 69, Scottsdale, Arizona;
Concourse d’Elegance; Scottsdale, Arizona
2015 Car Week; Monterey, California
Keeneland Concours d’Elegance;
Keenland, Kentucky Long Beach Gran Prix;
Long Beach, California Concourse d’Elegance;
Amelia Island, Florida Concourse d’Elegance;
Scottsdale, Arizona Barret-Jackson, Scottsdale, Arizona;
2014 Car Week, Monterey, California
Long Beach Gran Prix, Long Beach, California;
Barret-Jackson, Scottsdale, Arizona
2013 “Kyiv Fine Art”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 “ART KYIV contemporary 2012”, Mystetskyj Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 Academy Students’ Art Exhibition, NAFAA, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 Austrian art project by KatharinaRazumovsky “Art Stopp”, Kyiv, Wien
2006 Ukrainian youth exhibition “The one I call Mother”, Kyiv, Ukraine