Julia Kuzina

BIO

Julia Kuzina was born in 1987 in a small town of Pskov Region, Russia. Since 2005 she lives in St. Petersburg. Julia graduated with a degree in marketing. Julia began painting in 2014. In 2015, she started working on a series of paintings in the genre of pop surrealism.
These paintings were noted by the curators of Saatchi Art online gallery, participated in exhibitions in Russia and the USA. In 2020, she began working on the Shards series. The paintings of this series visualize an unsettling feeling in anticipation of destruction, the birth of a post-apocalyptic world, and at the same time cause conflicting feelings of peace and anxiety. The artist's paintings are in private collections in the USA, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and Russia.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

I explore the relationships between human and nature, themes of their vulnerability. Plants, people and animals in the paintings are not only connected, but also have common properties, can be transformed into each other. Some characters move from painting to painting, creating their own universe with their own rules. Each painting tells a story.

The main character of the paintings is a girl with sad eyes, created on the line between the b...

2010 - The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia

03/06/2021 –03/30/2021 - Group exhibition "Small Works Show" in Penumbra art gallery, Charneca de Caparica, Portugal

02/13/2021 – 03/27/2021 Group exhibition "Carnevale" in Aeon Gallery, Richmond, Illinois

11.07.2020 – 12.06.2020 Solo show Shards, Artmuza Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Petersburg

03.21.2020 – 12.04.2020 Exodus 2020, group exhibition in Aeon Gallery, Richmond, IL

12.20.2019 - 01.15.2020 Group Christmas exhibition Let it snow. Fossart gallery, Saint-Petersburg

12.20.2019 - 01.31.2020 exhibition of the winners of the All-Russian Competition “The Muse Should Work”, Artmuza Museum of Modern Art, St. Petersburg

December 2019 Group art show "The last saga" in La Bodega Gallery, San Diego

November 2019 Group art show "Mermaid Art Show" in La Bodega Gallery, San Diego

October 2018 Solo exhibition "Behind the eyes" in Fossart gallery, Saint-Petersburg

May 2018. "Youth of Saint-Petersburg" - group exhibition of young artists in Exhibition Center of Saint-Petersburg's Union of Artists.

September 2017. ArtExpo, Saint-Petersburg

April 2017. Group exhibition of contemporary artists. Galeria shopping and entertainment center Persona Art Lab, Saint-Petersburg.