Zoriana Pavlyshyn

Painting silence, one moment at a time

Zoryana Yaroslavivna PAVLYSHYN

Zoriana Pavlyshyn is not just an artist — she is a cultural voice, a visual storyteller, and a seeker of spiritual truth. Her work bridges the sacred and the contemporary, weaving together intuition, memory, and emotional intensity into paintings that speak with quiet power.
Born in Lviv, Ukraine, in 1971, Zoriana studied journalism at Ivan Franko National University before pursuing fine art under the mentorship of Professor Volodymyr Cherkasov, a Merited Artist of Ukraine. She also trained in iconography at the sacred art studio of St. George’s Cathedral. Her artistic journey spans oil painting, iconography, abstract compositions, and symbolic portraiture, each infused with philosophical depth and emotional resonance.
Zoriana’s paintings often merge traditional Christian motifs with modern expression, exploring themes of love, loss, feminine strength, spiritual pain, and hope. She believes that Ukrainian iconography can evolve into a new current of contemporary art, and she actively contributes to this vision through international sacred art symposiums and exhibitions.
She is the founder of Armigera Art Gallery, director of the MediaStar Information Agency, c...

Higher education, Ivan Franko University, Faculty of Journalism, majoring in Journalism (1995).
A graduate student at the Lviv Regional Institute of Public Administration of the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine.

Participant of over 20 exhibitions over the past two years.
In particular, Odesa, Kyiv, Lviv (Ukraine).
The first author's exhibition "Winter Mood" (Lviv, 2014), the following year the second exhibition "Female Essence" (Lviv, 2015). Since then, the artist has periodically organized author's projects. Participates in the exhibitions of the Union of Artists of Ukraine - "Spring Salon" and "Autumn Salon". The author's paintings were exhibited in China (Chengdu, 2020). Participant of the International Exhibition of Sacred Art and Icon Painting of the International Symposium of Icon Painting in Memory of Mykola Storozhenko (Kyiv, 2016). Participant of the International Project "The Largest Art Exhibition of Open-Air Painting" within the framework of the 19th International Repin Plein Air (Chuguiv, 2018), which was included in the Book of Records of Ukraine. Prize winner of the international competition "Golden Time Talent" (London, 2021).