Vira Ustianska

Vira Ustianska is an Ukrainian artist. In 2024, Vira and her daughter Vasy evacuated from Ukraine to the United States. Now She lives in sunny San Diego and continues to paint.

She earned her MFA from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts in 2015, where she studied under professor Chaus and professor Ganotskyi. Vira Ustianska became a member of Urkanian National Union of Artists when she was a student. She is the youngest artist in Zaporozhzhia branch of Ukrainian National Union of Artists.

Vira Ustianska takes part in various exhibitions and plein airs. During ten years she has created over 1000 paintings. A lot of her artworks are in museums and in private collections in Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, USA, Lithuania, China.

The artist shows interest in various genres, such as still life, landscape, portrait, industrial landscape.

Vira Ustianska paints from lnature because a photo can never render emotions that are needed to create a piece of art.
As an artist Vira acts as an empathetic intermediary between the subject he portrays and the viewer.

Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts (2009-2015)

2011 solo exhibition, gallery "Skrizhajl", Zaporizhye
2013 solo exhibition, Museum of the Kharkiv Aviation Institute,
2015 "Still Life of Vera Ustyanskaya", NUAU, Zaporozhye
2016 "Usually Unusual", Zaporizhzhya Art Salon, Zaporozhye
2016 "Painting. Ustyanska", gallery "Art-Block", Energodar
2017 "Feelings", gallery "Art-L", Zaporozhye
2018 "Buch-art", exhibition hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Zaporozhye
2018 “Four seasons”, Art Salon, Zaporizhye
International exhibitions
2017 XX Międzynarodowy Plener Malarsko-Rzeźbiarski „Łańcut 2017”, Lesna Zagroda, Lancut, Poland,
2017 VIII International Plein Air "Zarasai is Lake District 2017", city Library, Zarasai, Lithuania
2018 XXI Międzynarodowy Plener Malarski - „Łańcut 2018” Galeria «Sztuki» Rzeszow, Poland
2018 “Niedzica 2018”, Fridman, Poland
2018 “Plein airs”, Gallery “ISN Polfa”, Rzezow, Poland