Maria Mylenka

Maria Mylenka (alias moonolog) is a Ukrainian artist, currently based in Canada, with architectural background – both academically and genetically – and a self that is in a continuous and accelerating flux, drawing being perhaps the only constant in her life..
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My creative practices range from drawing and painting to digital art, tattooing and wood-turning; through my art I – largely subconsciously – explore topics of femininity and physicality, supernatural and spiritual, mental health and “everything that’s wrong with the world” through a lens of sarcasm and stoicism. These and other themes are, of course, also subject to change as my interests progress and change. I often find myself being heavily influenced by people, places, things – a book I am reading at a given time, a city I’m in, external global events, personal internal turmoils, random hyper-fixations, and a million other factors.
Despite drawing constantly, with and without a reason, since early childhood, it wasn’t until the beginning of 2020 that a shift in consciousness happened for me, and I realized and began embracing my nature as an Artist, along with the fact that making art – in whatever shape or form, but primarily drawing...

2016 to 2019: University of Waterloo, School of Architecture (Waterloo, ON, Canada)
2015 to 2016: National Academy Of Fine Arts And Architecture (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2021 - Gallery 811 (G811) group exhibition and auction, Charlotte, USA
2021 - Soulmade Chicago group exhibition, USA
2017 - Gemini Espresso Design competition finalist and group exhibition at M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine