Kateryna Kalinina

Kateryna Kalinina is a Ukrainian artist who graduated from the National Academy of Art. She’s been working in different mediums, including painting, gesso, and art dolls while changing the place of residence from Ukraine to USA and back.

Today, she commits herself to the porcelain sculpture, challenging it with the limits of the material and realistic impressions.

Porcelain features attract Kateryna with the combination of resilience and tenderness, smoothness and micro-details, matte and shinning. It lets her work with shape and surface, use it as a material for sculpture and as a basis for a painting. Porcelain is a luхury material, which used to be called white gold.

Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, the Renaissance, and the Nothern Renaissance are Kateryna’s primary sources of influence. Other influences are the modern artists-porcelainists who continue the figurative sculpture with references to classic art, such as Vipoo Srivilasa, Sophie Woodrow, Kate Macdowell, Sergei Isupov, Chris Antemann, Claire Partington. The forms of the human body, natural objects, bones are the central source of her inspiration.

Kateryna Kalinina’s artworks belong to Ukraine, Russia, the Czech Republic, Israel, and the USA. Her gesso proje...

1997 - 2006 National Academy of Art and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine, MSD
1988 - 1995 Republican Art School, Kyiv, Ukraine

Ceramics:
Nov-Dec 2020, The World Within, Tel-Aviv, Israel
05.17.2019, 2021 TceGlyna2019 ceramic fest, Kyiv
12.11.2018 Exhibition of Art and Dolls “Puppet Wonder”, Kyiv
11.15.2018 Ukrainian Contemporary Women’s Art Project “Breath of Fire”, Kyiv

Painting:
06.02.2016 Personal show in Museum of Outstanding Figures of Ukrainian Culture, Kyiv

Art Dolls:
Nov 2015 -Dec. 2016 Inspiration, Doll Art Exhibition, Dnipro
Apr 2015 Parsuna Gallery Doll Art Exhibition, Kyiv
Apr 2015 International Doll Show “Modna Lyalka”, Kyiv
Nov 2014 - Dec 2015 Inspiration, Doll Art Exhibition, Dnipro
Oct 2015 International Doll Show “Modna Lyalka”, Kyiv
Apr 2014 International Doll Show “Modna Lyalka”, Kyiv
Oct 2013 International Doll Show “Modna Lyalka”, Kyiv
Apr 2013 International Doll Show “Modna Lyalka”, Kyiv
Dec 2012 Teddy Land 2, International Expo of Dolls and Teddy Bears, Kyiv
Oct 2012 Art of Dolls, Moscow
Dec 2011 Crystal Fairy Tale, Kyiv
Oct 2011 Art of Dolls, Moscow
Oct 2010 Art of Dolls, Moscow