Sasha Makarska

I am a Ukrainian artist. I was born in Donetsk in 1979.
I decided to become an artist at the age of three. I graduated from the Department of Temple (Monumental) Painting at the Ukrainian National Academy of Arts. I have since developed a great love for Ukrainian folk icons and Ukrainian Baroque, as well as receiving an academic education in drawing and painting. I have participated in numerous group exhibitions, plein air events and art residencies. I have held five solo exhibitions.
I create collages, wall paintings, sculptures and illustrations. However, the main thing that I love doing the most is painting, particularly oil painting.
The most important things for me in painting are colour and the lightness of colour. Sometimes I incorporate text and words into my work. This is possible because my grandmother was a writer and my parents were journalists. I often create a series of works. I want what I create to be filled with feelings and have a layering of meanings like a good poem.

Donetsk Art College.
1999-2004 National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Master. Department of monumental painting under professor Mykola Storozhenko. Kyiv, Ukraine.

Solo Exhibitions:
2024
"Canvas, Anger/Hope/Love", National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery", Kyiv, Ukraine.
2018
"38020", RA gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016
"Here was" Tivat, Montenegro.
2015
"Montenegrin retablos", The Church of Santa Maria in Punta, Budva, Montenegro.
2007
"Signs of Life", "Collection" gallery (catalog), Kyiv, Ukraine.
2006
"Abetka", gallery "Zeh" (catalog), Kyiv.

Selected group exhibitions:
2025
The exhibition project “Universalism”The Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (MARI), Kyiv, Ukraine.
“TECHNOLOGY” Imagine Point Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2024
"BUNKER" Transcarpathian Regional Art Museum named after Yosyp Bokshay, Uzhgord, Ukraine.
"Art is the highest form of hope " National Reserve "Sofia Kyivska" (Khlebnaya), Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022
“Art Front Ukraine” Charity auction of Polish and Ukrainian artists, Palace on the Isle at the Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw, Poland.
A4 exhibition 365.labb, A7 Gallery Banska Bystrica Slovakia.
2021
"Citadel art plein-air report exhibition" Lviv, Ukraine.
2019
"INTRO", Korsak Museum of Contemporary Art, Lutsk, Ukraine. ...