Poliakova Yuliia

Julia Poliakova, born on July 14 1987, Kyiv. Graphic designer by education. Start painting in 2009, cooperated with the car showroom Bentley Ukraine. She took the first place in the Week of Ukrainian Art and in the same year and presented her first solo exhibition. Next 6 years she has been working as a graphic designer. After those creative break she decided to try herself in a new style and has combined the painting and the graphic design. At the moment she is working in the style near to Surrealism. By the way Saatchі&Saatchi named her one of the 20 most impressive living surrealists of present. She is creating combined works, mostly focused on the erotica genre mixing photos, digital art and classic painting.

Master of Graphic Design, Kiev National University of Technology and Graphic Design 2004-2009

Projet “Kiev Contemperary Art”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, 2015
Project “Zero without a stick”, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, 2015
Personal exhibition “Life in pink” , Spivakovska Art Center, 2016
Kyiv art week, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Kiev, 2017
Summer exhibition, Contemperary Art center M17, Kiev, 2017
Personal exhibition "Flights in dreams and reality", Zavalnyi Art Center, 2017
Personal exhibition "Religion is Opium", Museum History of Kiev, 2018
Project “Kash is King” from Saatchi&Saatchi London, 2019,
Charity auction “Support Ukraine” Geneva, Switherland 2022,
Project “Gods of War” Ukrainian National Museum Chicago, Chicago 2023.
Personal exibition "Metamorphosis", Chicago Grand Gallery, Chicago, 2024
Miami Art Basel, Spectrum, Miami, 2024