Pug dog Drawing

Yaryna Shumska is an artist, performer and teacher. She works in a field of performance art, painting, graphics, installation, and dance. Her works are based on the concept of human "presence" that provokes changes in the primary significance of places and situations. The main themes are connected to the environment, place, context, and memory: the memory of the objects and their invisible stories. Yaryna Shumska was a participant of the art residencies Catena (France 2014, Spain 2016, Ukraine 2018), Espace o25rjj (France, 2019), participant of the I-Portunus program (Creative Europe mobility program, 2019). The artist was shortlisted for the Young Ukrainian Artists Competition “MYXi” (2015), the II Youth Biennale of Contemporary Art of Ukraine (2019). Participant in numerous exhibitions, performance art festivals, and conferences in Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Israel, Japan, Italy, Slovakia, Norway, Thailand, USA and Canada.