Kitanna Ria

It's hard to place myself into one particular genre. But you still can find a feature wondering around my works.

They are all united by one same plot. Even in what may initially seem an objectless abstraction, there is the plot. I've been calling myself a psychedelic artist, an abstractionist and a surrealist.

Now I have left it all behind. I feel, that I have the view, that is larger than just psychedelics or surrealism, or abstractionism.

I get inspired, besides everything else, from written symbols and calligraphy as well as from mythology of various different countries and cultures.

In Japan seven precise and gentle strikes of a brush create a symbol. Aztecs spiritual successors attract matter with just a thread of a thought. Egyptian ornament, eternal and flat, inspires me to push myself off into something curly.

It's hard for me to pick just one culture. I can not define myself through one particular nationality. I started my career as an artist in Russia. I'm Armenian ethnically. I had lived and studied in Austria and England for a while. I have travelled around half of the world, and I was at home everywhere.

Exhibitions:
2017
18.12.2017-06.01.2018 - Single Grain of Rise (Paris, France);
06.10.2017-31.01.2018 - Solo exhibition "Despite Superstition". (Moscow, Russia);
21.09.2017 - Glich Augmentation (Moscow, Russia)

2016
26.08.2016-28.08.2016 - Art.Who.Art 8 (Moscow, Russia);
01.07.2016 - The opening of summer area in The Museum of Moscow (Moscow, Russia);
25.06.2016-01.07.2016 Art Goes Mall (Moscow, Russia)
20-28.06.2016 - Solo exhibition "31" (Moscow, Russia);
28-29.03.2016 - Open Up (Moscow, Russia)

2015
19.12.2015-19.01.2016 - Solo exhibition "Duality" (Moscow, Russia);
21-23.08.2015 - Art.Who.Art 4 (Moscow, Russia);
27-28.07.2015 - Genesis (Moscow, Russia);
20-27.06.2015 - Solo exhibition "Look deeper" (Moscow, Russia);
17-19.04.2015 - Art.Who.Art 3