Yulia Shibirkina

Yulia Shybirkina born in 1984 in Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk
Ukrainian artist lives and works in Odesa
her practice encompasses both documentary and artistic photography. In her projects, Shybirkina goes beyond photography, also working with video, textiles, installations, and art books.

Her artistic research focuses on themes of memory, identity, and presence, unfolding through experimental photography, textile interventions and visual narratives. Recurring motifs in her work include the body, landscape, and loss. Using manual techniques - cyanotype, collage, and embroidery - works with silence, trauma, and transformation.

She actively maintains a digital diary #miraclegraphicarts, where she publishes autobiographical works based on her own experiences and reflections.

Bachelor of Fine Arts
studied at the Architectural and Art Institute the Odesa State Academy of Construction and Architecture
which is the heir to the glorious traditions of the Odesa school Ukraine
Participant of the MYPH School of Conceptual and Artistic Photography

MYPH Prize 2025 longlist

Mentorship from UAPP

"Decolonization: Rethinking Spaces and Narratives", Cult of the State - a project about culture and political consciousness, Mykolaiv / Lviv

Voda Slovak Press Photo - a project focused on photographers from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine, who use their photographic lenses to reflect the theme of "water" in different contexts

"Glass and Steel" - for Ukrainian photo projects, printed edition, MYPH School of Conceptual and Art Photography

Kharkiv Festival of Zines and Samizdava "Zin Fest"

MYPH at Warehouse 2.0 - an exhibition of photography, photobooks and artbooks, Cherkasy, Ukraine

Ukrainisches Kunsttagebuch, Karas Gallery & Halle Alte Feuerwache, Cologne, Germany

ArtBees Gallery within the framework of the NFT Paris event, Paris, France

"Formula endurance”, Institute for Contemporary Art Problems, Kyiv, Ukraine

2024
II Via Carpatia Biennale, IMO, Stary Sańcz, Poland

“Invisible Gardens”, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine

Filhos do Neiva, Portugal

Participant in the collective exhibition “Books that Changed My Life”, New York, USA

“Art in the Subway”, ArtCrush Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

“85560”, photographs by 12 Kyiv photogra...