Zhenya Machkovska

I am an artist who works with painting and graphic arts. I was born in 1999 in Dnipro, Ukraine. In 2018, I graduated from the Dnipro Theatre and Art College. From 2018 to 2022, I studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Department of Fine Arts and Restoration.

I have had four solo exhibitions in various Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Ternopil. My works have participated in group exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. In 2024, my work "Anxiety" was included in the group exhibition "Ukraine: Two Realities or Ukrainian Surrealism" at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, hosted by the Deutsch-Ukrainische Gesellschaft (Freiburg, Germany). Two of my works were featured in the 2023 group exhibition "Shelter," organized by the Kozitsky Charitable Foundation at Pellas Gallery (Boston, USA).In 2022, my project "War Diary" was exhibited at the Tbilisi Literature Museum (Georgia) as part of the Ukrainian-Georgian group exhibition "Tomorrow". Other notable exhibitions include the 2023 "Freakreative Congress" at the White World Gallery in Kyiv.
In 2024, I created three reflective works specifically for the poetry zine AnAsterisk Zine. And I participated in the residency for young artists at DCCC (Dnipro, 2023)....

Education:
2014 - 2018 - Dnipropetrovsk Theater and Art College, Fine Arts Department (Dnipro, Ukraine).
2018 - 2022 - National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Department of Fine Arts and Restoration (Kyiv, Ukraine).

2024 - Solo exhibition "Daily Oxymoron", as part of the festival "Actor's House. Immersion", Zaporizhia, Ukraine.
2024 - Group exhibition "Ukraine: two realities or Ukrainian surrealism" in the Ukrainian Cultural Center from the Deutsch-Ukrainische Gesellschaft. Freiburg, Germany.
2023 - Group exhibition "Cosmogony of meanings", The Korsaks’ Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Lutsk, Ukraine.
2023 - Group exhibition "Shelter" by the Kozitsky Charitable Foundation. Pellas Gallery, Boston, USA.
2023 - Solo exhibition "Daily Oxymoron" at the art bar "Malevich," Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 - Group exhibition "Freakreative Congress" in the White World Gallery. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 - Group exhibition "Open Space: Chronicles of Transition" National museum "Kyiv Art Gallery", Kyiv, Ukraine.
2022 - Solo exhibition "A new reality", Na пошті. Creative cluster, Ternopil, Ukraine.
2022 - Ukrainian-Georgian Contemporary Art Exhibition "Tomorrow", Literature Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2021 - Solo exhibition "Gaze", bookstore "Shine of the book", Kyiv, Ukraine.