Nataliya Bagatskaya

I was born in 1967 and live and work in Kyiv, Ukraine. I am a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. My work is represented in private collections and galleries across Ukraine, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Vietnam, the Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and other countries.

My primary medium is acrylic painting. I combine hyperrealism, photorealism, and contemporary realism, adapting traditional oil-painting techniques to acrylic media. This approach allows me to achieve both precision and depth while exploring subjects such as still life, nature, the environment, and the human condition.

My work does not seek to beautify reality or escape from it. Instead, I focus on the world as it is—complex, fragile, and often contradictory. The war has profoundly transformed both my surroundings and my perception of the world. What once seemed permanent has fractured: homes, roads, plans, trust in the future, and the sense of continuity itself.

I create paintings as visual mosaics assembled from these fragments of experience. Rather than offering easy optimism, I explore the space between destruction and hope, loss and resilience, fear and the search for meaning. Through re...

Graduated from Kyiv National University of Technology and Design with a degree in Fashion Design.

Participated in exhibitions:
Solo exhibitions:
2022, «Live in Avatar» in Art-Caffe "Klub", Kyiv.
2018 "The Night" in "Zavalnyi Art Center" Kyiv
2018 "Whish You Were Here", Museum of Lesya Ukrainka. Kyiv
2017 "A Little of Silence" in "Zavalnyi Art Center" Kyiv, Ukraine.
Group Exhibitions:
IV Ukrainian Contemporary Women’s Art Fest at Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2021
International Exhibition "#365daysafter" in "Mytets" gallery, Kyiv, 2021.
Exhibition "HRYVNA ART" in the Art center "Svitovid", Kolomyia, 2021.
Exhibition "HRYVNA ART" in the Palace of Arts, Lviv, 2021.
Exhibition "HRYVNA ART" in the Museum of History of Kyiv, Kyiv, 2021.
Exhibition "HRYVNA ART" in Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2021
Exhibition at the Sky Mall, Kiev. 2021
Exhibition-competition "Pro Cheese Awards", Kiev, "Parkovy" Exhibition and Convention Center. Grand Prix. 2021
Third All-Ukrainian Exhibition "Women's Portrait". Kyiv. Ukraine. 2020
Барви світу" in Parlament of Ukraine. Kyiv. Ukraine, 2019
Sheldon Rose Gallery, "Big Ideas in Small Art", Toronto, Canada, 2019
Group exhibition from Ukraine at 58 Venice Biennale, "Falling shadow Dreams over gardens Giardini ". Italy, 2019
Exhibition "Vi...