Diana Ruban

Diana Ruban (b. 1999, Kremenchuk, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian visual artist working primarily in
painting and sculpture. Her artistic practice explores themes of personal identity, melancholy,
emotional transformation, and inner freedom through allegorical imagery and recurring female
figures. Drawing from symbolism and surrealist visual language, Ruban creates imagined worlds
inhabited by generalized, non-idealized characters that embody vulnerability, sensitivity, and
psychological experience. A recurring blue female figure and the symbolic image of the bird
function as metaphors for spirituality, emotional isolation, and the search for liberation, forming the
core of the artist’s deeply personal visual universe.

She has no artistic education, is self-taught.

Personal exhibitions:
2024
The ones born by the light, Mriya Gallery, New York, USA
2023
Pustoti, Brama, Cherkasy, Ukraine
Childhood, Avangarden gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, curator Karina Kachurovska
Capsule, Baroque Gallery
Group exhibitions:
2026
A room of one’s own, ESCAT, Barcelona, Spain
2025
Art fair, ESCAT, Barcelona, Spain
Lore, RHODES, London, Great Britain
Group Time, RHODES, London, Great Britain
HYBRID INTERACTION, Albert Contemporary, Odense, Denmark
2024
We Thrive Somewhere, Albert Contemporary, Odense, Denmark
Embraced: A Lived Experience, Rhodens, London, England
TOI MOI NOUS, Simard Bilodeau Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
MERGING WITH THE GARDEN, Mriya Gallery, New York, USA
The Collectyv, MOT, Lviv, Ukraine
SHERO, Rukh Art Hub, New York, USA
Eclipsed Visions, Galerie Revel, France
The Collectyv, Roman Sviridov Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Dream Studio, UNICEF, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023
Bundle, auction, WE AND THE WORLD, Lviv, Ukraine
Horizons, WE AND THE WORLD, Ankara, Turkey
Unbreakable, WE AND THE WORLD, Chicago, USA
Inter::Rupted, SWYTLO, Edinburgh, UK
Art Garage, WE AND THE WORLD, Lviv, Ukraine
Unbreakable, WE AND THE WORLD, Menachem Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Heritage, WE AND THE WORLD, Ukrainian Cultural Center...