Liliia Kodunova

Lilia Kodunova, a Ukrainian-born artist now living in England. Her practice examines the figure as a site where internal psychological states and external social conditions intersect.

Through oil and other materials she explores the thresholds between presence and erasure, asking how identity becomes visible, obscured, or felt rather than seen. Figures often appear suspended between inner and outer worlds, occupying emotional states people may not conciously recognize.

Lilia’s experience moving from Ukraine to the UK informs her interest in resilience, dislocation, and the body as a container of memory. The figure becomes a vessel for what cannot be spoken directly. She is interested in how vulnerability, introspection, and endurance inhabit the body, and how an artwork can offer a space where that interiority is seen with care and clarity.

2023-2024 Royal Drawing School, Drawing Development Year

2018-2022 Academy of Realist Art, Kyiv, Ukraine, Painting and Drawing Class

Residencies

2025, Mural Residency, England

2025, Dumfries House Residency, Scotland

Awards

2025 Invited to contribute to the charity project “Art on a Postcard”, supporting The Hepatitis C Trust

2025 Visual Art Open, Longlisted Artist

2025, VAA International Exhibition and Scholarship Prize, Shortlisted Artist, Visual Artists Associations

2025, Jackson’s Art Prize, Longlisted Artist

Exgibitions

2025, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Sevenoaks, UK

2025, Shoredich Gallery, Drawings without Borders, London, UK

2024, No Format Gallery, Painting Open, London, Uk

2024, Fronteer Gallery, Skulls and Bones, Sheffield, Uk

2023 Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, UK

2023, Artspring Gallery, Tonbridge, UK

2021, Annual Show of the Academy of Realistic Art, Kyiv, Ukraine

2021, Art Fair of Ukrainian National Art, Boguslav Region, Ukraine

2020, Annual Show of the Academy of Realistic Art, Kyiv, Ukraine