Maryana Bryukhanova

Dance your life, today, now.
Be bright, enjoy, catch the wave. Chaos around you, everything changes.
Surrender to the flow of time, find your movement and speed, your rhythm.
Live your life. Dance your life.

Contemporary Ukrainian artist. Born in Nikolaev. Until 2022, she lived and worked in Odessa, where she graduated from the Children’s Art School of Arts (1997). Received a bachelor’s degree and a specialist (2002) of fine and decorative arts, mastered academic painting and studied art history.

In 2022, she was forced to leave Ukraine due to the war that began in the country.
Currently lives and works in Barcelona.

She began her artistic practice with realism and impressionistic painting, preferring plein air painting. Most of the works were painted while traveling around different countries: France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Mexico, Iceland. During this period she took part in 7 international plein-airs and in more than 5 watercolor biennials.
During the same period, she actively taught, created her own school of watercolor and sketching.

Currently works in series in various media, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, graphite, photography.
Works in the styles of impressionism, abstract imp...

1994 ‒ 1997 Odessa Art school 2. Ukraine
1997 ‒ 2002 South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky – Specialization in painting

2021
PERSONAL EXHIBITION “Whisper of flowers…”, Museum of Fine Arts named after A. Bely, Chernomorsk, Ukraine.
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2020
“Quick sketch exhibition”, Odessa Municipal Museum personal collections them. A.V. Bleshchunova, Art project: Project of the group Urban Sketchers Odessa.

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2019
“Pink and red. Metamodern”, Own gallery 202, Odessa. Ukraine, Two-Person Exhibition: Maryana Bryukhanova and Svetlana Mikhalevich.

Exhibition-action. “Unnecessary Art”, Own gallery 202, Odessa. Ukraine. Two-Person Exhibition: Maryana Bryukhanova, Svetlana Mikhalevich.

“Paris. Rome. Amsterdam”, Own gallery 202, Odessa. Ukraine.Two-Person Exhibition: Maryana Bryukhanova, Svetlana Mikhalevich.

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2018
“1st Malaysia International Watercolor Biennale 2018” , White Box Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

“International Watercolor Festival IWS” , Manes Gallery, Prague, Czech republic, (catalogue)

“Fabriano in Acquarello” ,International watercolor muzeum, Fabriano. Italy,(catalogue)

“Athens and Piraeus”, Greek Cultural Foundation, Odessa. Ukraine,Exhibition after plain-air sessions,(catalogue)
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