Maria Kozyrenko

PAINTINGS THAT WILL UNDERSTAND YOU
at first sight

Maria Kozyrenko (1986, Kharkiv, Ukraine), artist, poet and writer.

I work mainly with oil pastels on butt paintings and graphics.

Author of the art project "Ukrainian hieroglyphs: stronger than words".


Participation in residencies and competitions

Participant of the international art residence "Diffusion" (Kramatorsk, Ukraine, 2018).

​Participant of the online projects "Immunity" and "Anticipation" of the Korsak Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art (Lutsk, Ukraine, 2020).

​Participant of the research art residency "Aura of the city" (Starobilsk, Luhansk region, Ukraine, 2020).

​The winner of the competition of art projects of the Nazariy Voitovych Art Residence (2020, Ukraine).

The works are stored in the funds of the Donetsk Regional Art Museum, Kramatorsk Art Museum (Donetsk region, Ukraine), the National Museum of Avdiivka (Donetsk region, Ukraine), Korsak’s Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art (Lutsk, Ukraine), Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum (Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine), are part of the permanent exhibition of the Lviv Regional Ivanychuk's Library, as well as in private collections in Ukraine and USA.

Personal exhibitions

​"Lollipop period" (2010, Kharkiv Literary Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine)

"2 D" (2011, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine).

"Islands" (online exhibition on the Kunstmatrix platform, organized by the Nazariy Voitovych Art Residence, Ukraine, 2020).
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Collective exhibitions

"Diffusions" - the final exhibition of works of the international art residence (Kramatorsk Art Museum, 2018).

Diffusions is an exhibition of works by the International Art Residence (Kuindzhi Center for Contemporary Art, Mariupol, 2019).

Exhibition of participants of the charity art intensive "Art-touch" (Center for Support of Veterans and Their Families "Poruch", Kramatorsk, 2019).

"Anticipation / Immunity" (international exhibition, Korsak’s Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art, Lutsk, Ukraine, 2020).

​"Landscapes painted by heart" (Avdiivka National Museum, Donetsk region, Ukraine, 2020).

"Aura of the city / Diffusion" - the final exhibition of the participants of two art residencies (Kramatorsk Art Museum, Kramatorsk, Ukraine, 2020).

"Aura of the city" (Luhansk National Agrarian University, Starobilsk, Luhansk region, Ukraine, 2020).

​"Starobilsk in the heart of Lviv" (Lviv Regional Library R. Ivanychuk...