Yaryna Shumska

Yaryna Shumska is an artist, performer and teacher.
She works in a field of performance art, painting, graphics, installation, and dance. Her works are based on the concept of human "presence" that provokes changes in the primary significance of places and situations. The main themes are connected to the environment, place, context, and memory: the memory of the objects and their invisible stories.
Yaryna Shumska was a participant of the art residencies Catena (France 2014, Spain 2016, Ukraine 2018), Espace o25rjj (France, 2019), participant of the I-Portunus program (Creative Europe mobility program, 2019). The artist was shortlisted for the Young Ukrainian Artists Competition “MYXi” (2015), the II Youth Biennale of Contemporary Art of Ukraine (2019). Participant in numerous exhibitions, performance art festivals, and conferences in Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Israel, Japan, Italy, Slovakia, Norway, Thailand, USA and Canada.

Born in 1989 in Lviv, Ukraine.
Graduated Lviv National Academy of Arts (PhD 2017). Grant holder in the program "Gaude Polonia" of the Minister of Culture of Poland (2013), Resident in the University of Art in Poznan at the Faculty of Sculpture and Spatial Actions (2013).

Selected individual projects:
2022 – Life as it is and as it is not. Intellias Art Point. Lviv, Ukraine.
2020 – Dialogue. Art-project (performance, video-performance, object, installation, photo) in collaboration with B. LeBéguec-Friedman. Dzyga Gallery, Lviv / Ukraine.
Dialogue. Art-project (performance, video-performance, object, installation, photo) in collaboration with B. LeBéguec-Friedman. The Korsak Museum of Contemporary Art, Lutsk / Ukraine.
Silence (photo performance). FLAC, Espace o 25rjj, Loupian / France. December 2019 - January 2020 (in collaboration with B. Lebéguec-Friedman)
2019 – Layering (painting). Garry Bowman Gallery. Lviv, Ukraine.
Vagabonds (drawing). Urban library. Lviv, Ukraine.
2018 – Interaction (painting). Lviv National Museum, Lviv, Ukraine.
2017 – Contemplación (performance, drawing). Gallery “Artishow”, Barcelona, Spain.
Watersides (drawing). Gallery ZPAP, Torun, Poland.
2016 – Jeśli jutro drzewo zasłаni moje okno / If tomorrow a tree obscures my window (performance, painting). Gallery ZPAP, Torun, Poland.
2014 – On Earth, (performance, installation). “Nad Wislą” Gallery. Torun, Poland. Поміж/ Entre/ Entrée/ Вхід (“Between/ Entry”, performance, installation, painting), PRIMUS Galle...