Yana Hudzan

Yana Hudzan is a Ukrainian emerging artist, who focuses on social and individual topics and
works in mixed media painting. She looks for associative images and signs for situations and
phenomena in her life surroundings in order to understand and feel connected to herself better.
A large part of the artistic practice is a reinterpretation of the heritage of Ukrainian
grandmothers in a very ironic manner, which is represented in the "Berehyni" series. The
character interests of the artist is a unique Slavic matriarchal archetype of the Ukrainian woman.
She uses street photos from cities, residential neighborhoods, public transport, classic paintings,
Greek mythology, Christian iconography and many other references and fuses them together.
Yana studied art restoration and received her Masters degree in sacred art at Lviv National
Academy of Arts in Lviv, Ukraine.Yana is a participant in numerous group exhibitions, plain airs
and has had several personal exhibitions. Her work has been placed and sold in private
collections in Ukraine, Poland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey, Finland, Spain, Ireland,
Czech Republic, France, and the UK.

2012-2016 - Studied in Lviv National Academy of Arts, restoration
2016-2018 - Graduated from Lviv National Academy of Arts. Sacred art. Master degree

Selected Exhibitions
2024-"MATERIA MATTERS. Ukrainian art textile" -Ukrainian House- Kyjiv,Ukraine
2024-"Minesweepering"-Intellias Art Point - Lviv, Ukraine
2024-"Rooting"-Brama gallery-Cherkassy,Ukraine
2023-“Paradise for animals” – Voitok Gallery-Kyiv, Ukraine
2023- "Hardened"-Exhibition of Ukrainian female artists- Café Kyiv, (Europa center)-Berlin, DE
2022-"Be Brave"-Ukrainian war time art exhibition-Austin & Houston,USA
2022-"War Flowers"-Ukrainian Art Week-Belford, Bruges, Belgium
2022-"Berehyni | War Flowers"-Contemporary Art Center-Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2021- "Berehyni"-Ukrainian Art Week-Belford, Bruges, Belgium
2021-“365dayshelter”-Ukraine, Croatia, China, Portugal
2021-"Berehyni"-Personal exhibition, art center "Dzyga" Lviv, Ukraine
2019-2021-“Ukrainian Biennale of Levkas"-White world gallery-Kyiv, Ukraine
2020-"Immunity"-Korsakiv Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art-Lutsk, Ukraine
2020 - Ukrainian Art Week - Belford, Bruges, Belgium