Julia Uffizi

I was born and raised in the coldest place on earth, in Yakutia. Due to the constant cold and polar winter nine months of the year, all I saw in people was their eyes and frosty eyelashes. This was always not enough for me, I figured out how they looked behind all these layers of clothing and painted them, real. Later it developed into the ability to see people as they are inside. To touch their deepest experiences, to reveal their aspirations on canvas. This brought me the realization that drawing people is the only thing I want and can do in my life, I overcame many obstacles on the way to my dream, and it came true.

The main theme of my work is people. I paint to help and inspire them to understand and accept what they are, just as I did. Using my interpretations of the people around me, I create characters, clothe them in fantastic images, emphasize the original features, revealing their inner strength and energy. I endlessly love humanity and believe in our exceptional abilities, and I pass this vision through myself and transmit it on canvas with oil paint in the original style and technique, which makes my pictures are lively and deeply emotional.

I use my experience as a digital artist to create an oil painti...

Kaliningrad Business College 2010-2014, architect
Sopocka Szkoła Wyższa 2014-2017, architect

2018 Personal exhibition, Kozelsk
2020 Group exhibition, Sovetsk
I had several exhibitions but most of all I’m proud of taking part and even being one of the main artists on the #AWAE campaign 2020. My painting was exposed on Toronto’s main square billboard in support of a world-known and incomparable meaningful show for teenagers about equality, feminism, representation, LGBTQ+ rights, and self-accepting.
2021 ArtCluster group exhibition, Kaliningrad