Lena Kapshukova

Lena Kapshukova - artist, designer, illustrator, art teacher, cultural researcher, art manager.

Since birth, Lena has lived and worked in Ukraine, in the largest postindustrial city of Ukraine - Dnipropetrovsk. In order to comply with the 2015 decommunization law the city was renamed to Dnipro, because of the nuclear, space and military industry, it functioned as a closed city until the 1990s. This historical fact highly influenced the cultural life of the city's residents and youth.

Lena was born in 1990 on the eve of the Soviet Union's collapse in difficult years. Regardless, her parents gave her possibility learn dancing, figure skating, rhythmic gymnastics, English language and arts since 1993. In those years, the early 90s, were fairly widespread children's creative arts centers, clubs or “palaces”, where children were taught folk arts and etc. Lena was lucky to live near one of it, so she began to learn Petrykivka painting. Traditional Ukrainian decorative painting style became first step in her art studying and first step in cultural identity education.

Lena graduated from Dnipropetrovsk National University (Design specialty) in 2011 and Dnipropetrovsk Mining University (Pedagogy specialization) in 2012.

Since 2...

- March 2009 - participant of International Design Festival "Cow", Dnipropetrovs'k.
- March 2010 - Vernissage "Still Life", Student Center of DNU, Dnipropetrovs'k.
- 2014 - participant of the international youth festival of social advertising "Another View", Odessa.
- 20.08 -13.09 2015 - participant of the exhibition-competition of young artists "Germinal", Art Museum Dnipropetrovs'k.
- December 2015 - Poster campaign "# Read" as part of International Design Festival COW, short list , Dnipropetrovs'k.
- September 2016 - exhibition "Love for three oranges", Museum of Ukrainian painting, Dnipro.
- June 2019: Art Fest Dnipropetrovsk Region, Museum of Ukrainian painting, Dnipro.
- February - March 2020 – personal exhibition «Integration. Presence», Center for Aesthetic Development at National TU Dnipro Polytechnic, Dnipro.
- June 2021: Art Fest Dnipropetrovsk Region, Museum of Ukrainian painting, Dnipro.