Iryna Lupashchenko

Iryna Lupashchenko is a contemporary stage designer and artist.
Many of her works are an exciting journey into the world of theatre and stage. For over twenty years, she has been working on the world literature classics. She has created set design and costumes for more than a hundred plays, along with five hundred paintings and drawings. The artist aspires to feel the drama through her inherently natural view and create an emotional and wholesome artistic imagery of the future performance while staying true to the artistic value of laconism.
Iryna Lupashchenko`s paintings are deeply symbolic. Each work tells a story that strikes a nerve and never leaves the audience indifferent. Figurative portraits of the mysterious Harlequins, many-faced actors and delicate travesties present spectators insides of the theatre and reveal the world behind curtains.
Iryna dreams about showing her art to the entire world so that it can bring joy to as many people as possible. Her paintings and drawings can be found in private collections across Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Russia.

Iryna Lupashchenko graduated with honors from the Faculty of Graphic Design of the Kyiv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Art and Design named after Mykhailo Boychuk (KGI DPID).

2001 – A solo exhibition of stage design and pictorial art “Scenography outside the Stage” at the Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Art.
2001 – Participated in a large art project “History of Women's Costume in Portraits of the 18th and 20th Centuries” as an author of historical costumes.
2004 – Represented Vinnytsia region at a showcase of Ukrainian art and culture “Ukrainian Culture at the Turn of the Centuries” organized by Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine.
2005 – A solo exhibition of stage design “Scenography is my Life” at the Vinnytsia Regional Ukrainian Academic Music and Drama Theatre named after Nikolai Sadovsky.