Vira Dg

Official member of the Ukrainian Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale • Independent visual artist • Modern calligrapher • Portraitist • Figurative painter • Speaker of I’M Design Conference

Vira was born in Ukraine and graduated from the most well-known Art Academy in Ukraine – The Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Last two years Vira studied calligraphy in Europe and Istanbul, and as a result, she combined in her artworks two different styles and approaches – European and Asian.
Since 2016 Vira has been living and working in Istanbul, Turkey.

In 2016 Vira started a solo career. The focus on the development of Calligraffiti style, the combination of graffiti and calligraphy, also Vera connects it with figurative painting and 3D laser-cut design.

Since 2019 Vira works with Augmented Reality Art and VR, WebXR

Education:

2009 - Vira DG graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (Ukraine), the Department of Fine Arts, a specialty of mural painting and architectural decoration (with honors degree)

2014 - University of Pennsylvania (USA)/ Design, Innovation and Creativity course

2015 — Museum of Contemporary Art MoMA (USA)/ Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies course

2018 - California Institute of the Arts / Image making course

Professional associations:
2002 – Allied member of the National Union of Artist of Ukraine

Selected exhibitions:
2020 A fresh perspective on present-day art, Art Exhibition Noor Art Gallery Noor Bank Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE
2019-2020 Reflections, Exhibition at the Aisha Alabbar Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2019 - The Year of Tolerance Dubai, UAE
2019 – Ukrainian Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale, participant of the curatorial project under the supervision of the Open Group THE SHADOW OF DREAM CAST UPON GIARDINI DELLA BIENNALE
2018 – Solo exhibition of Calligraffiti artworks, Palladium Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2018 – International art workshop ARTclan on Cunda Island, Ayvalik, Turkey
2017 – International mail-art exhibition CONFLUENZE / CONFLUENCES, Italy
2016 – DEC art exhibition in the Museum of History of Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 – Personal exhibition in Mexico City, the Gallery Kuii, Mexico
2015 – Solo exhibition of paintings on glass “Me-You-Emotions”, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2014 – 5th international Art-camp in Baja, Hungary
2014 – 6x6x14, Exhibition at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, NY, USA
2014 – Mole the world, Czech Republic
2014 – Exhibition at the gallery il Quadro, Aachen, Germany