Marshmallow Drawing

Tatiana Youna Born in the Moscow region, Russia. Tatiana spent the first years of her life with her family in the secret military town in USSR time before moving to Moscow at the age of 11.  Initially she got a business education and worked in fashion retail but the dream of being an artist had been a constant question growing inside her since early childhood. In 2013, she entered the Faculty of Foundation of the British Higher School of Design in Moscow, and in 2017 received a grant from the Israeli businessman Mr.Rotem for the opportunity to study at the Faculty of Contemporary Art, which started a special relationship to art as a process of research and experiment.  In Youna's work, you can see the influence of the modern European masters combined with street art and all the philosophy and anthropology behind it. Youna's works are a personal chronicle, using social processes, a research to understand the nature of femininity and the role of modern feminism in today’s world and in particular modern-day Russia. In her early years, spent in isolation, in a small town surrounded by forest, Youna would find expression in nature, which is almost always present in her art. In fact, she is often trying to isolate the social and natural aspects of humanity by presenting her unique vision. Since 2018, Youna has been actively engaged in her own artistic practice, using both materials of the classical school and alternative media. An early collaboration with Russian tobacco brand ‘DUFT’ led to a commission for the ‘354 Restaurant’ in downtown Moscow in which she created a huge 63 square meter mural in August 2020. In 2021 Youna created the artwork for the band ‘Volen Sentir’ latest album. Youna's works have been sold to private collections in Russia, as well as collectors in the USA and Great Britain.