Kateryna Hai

My practice is centered on color and emotional resonance, working within an expressive visual language that moves between expressionism, subtle naïve influences, and occasional ethnically informed chromatic references. I approach painting intuitively rather than conceptually, allowing each work to emerge through process, gesture, and accumulation rather than pre-defined narrative structures.
Working with oil, acrylic, pastel, and mixed media, I build layered surfaces where texture and material depth become as important as image itself. These works often begin with simple subjects—flowers, landscapes, portraits, and animals—but evolve into complex painterly fields that shift between representation and abstraction.
I am interested in reducing visual information to its essential emotional impact, creating works that feel immediate yet remain open over time. The layered surfaces invite prolonged looking, where new details and interpretations gradually appear rather than reveal themselves at once.
Alongside their emotional and intuitive foundation, my works are also deeply connected to material presence and interior space. They are designed to function not only as images, but as atmospheric objects—paintings that interact with light, en...

2003- 2009 Lviv National Academy of Arts
2009-2012 Lviv National Academy of Arts - post graduate course

2026 - Ludwiki-1, The Night of Museums, Warsaw, Poland
2023/24 - Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
- Discovery Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
2022 - Discovery Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
- Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
2021 - Talent Energy Fest, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 Blockchain Art Hacaton 2.0, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 ARTBOX.PROJECT, New York, USA
2017 The best of Art Battle. White World Center of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 Women and Flowers, Majsterja Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 Art Project, Obnova fashion space, XVII Lviv Fashon Week, Lviv, Ukraine
2016 Art Battle. White World Center of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 Flora. Veles Art Gallery. Lviv, Ukraine
2015 Art Studio Voluiky, art salon VELES, Lviv, Ukraine
2015 Autumn, Cytadel Inn Hotel, Lviv, Ukraine
2015 International exhibition The Artists Day, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 Autumn Salon, Palace of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine