Iryna Vorona

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... born in Ukraine, lives and works in Kyiv. PhD in Culture and Art, MA in Fine Arts.

She is a social activist, artist and researcher, working across visual art and theory.

Iryna Vorona attaches great importance to physical and sensory experience in her artistic practice, researching changes in individuality under the influence of external factors, such as the environment and society. In her work storytelling, visual art and the social role of identity and emotions are key to imagine and examine clashes between artificial and natural relations, pain and social isolation, borders and independence. Working in a wide variety of media she explores the visual and social languages of connection between people and nature.

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Education: 

2018-2022 – Doctor of Philosophy study in Theory and History of Arts at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (NAFAA). Kyiv, Ukraine.

2012-2018 – Graduated from the NAFAA. Fine arts. Master’s degree. Artist-Painter, Researcher, Teacher.

2017 – Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts (ALU). Erasmus + program. Zagreb, Croatia. 

2005-2008 – Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics. Bachelor’s degree in Philology.

A summary of awards/achievements/projects: 

2022-2023 – Non-Resident Fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

2022 – The book “Portrait archive: the war diary”, published with a grant from the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.

2022 – Land art project “The countermyth of home safety”. EU-funded program.

2022 – “Jam Factory” Art Center Grant. Lviv, Ukraine.

2022 – Active citizens local training, hold by the British council in Ukraine. Certificate. 

2021 – Winner of the Digital labs program hold by the “House of Europe”.

2021 – III place in the Ukrainian-German competition of innovations “Falling Walls Lab” with the project “Library of artists stories” dedicated to the pandemic experience. 

2021, 2018 – Ukraine President scholarship.

2019 – Ukraine President Grant. Media art project “Qr-truth”.

2019 – Grant of Mobility “Culture Bridges”, implemented by the British Council. 

2018, 2016 – Diploma of International academy of the rating technologies and sociology “Golden Fortune”. 2018 – Kyiv head of administration art prize for special record of achievements in development of the capital of Ukraine – Kyiv.

2017 – Finalists of A. Kryvolap Art Prize, Cultprostir, Ukraine.

2015 – Honorable Diploma of National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.

Solo exhibitions: 

2019 – Art project “Insight” at “LAVRA” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. With the support of the Department of Culture Kyiv City State Administration. 

2019 – Art project “Qr-Truth” at “Tuzov Gallery”. Kyiv, Ukraine.  2018 – “I-Reflection” at the art space “ASTARTA”. Kyiv, Ukraine.

2017 – “Finland I see you” at “II contemporary art centre”. Ii, Finland.

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The works are in the collections of museums and galleries: 

• Korsakiv Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art. Lutsk, Ukraine.

• Bukhanchuk Museum of Fine Arts. Kmytiv, Ukraine.

• Honoré de Balzac Literary and Memorial Museum. Verkhivnya, Ukraine.

• “Karas Gallery” est. in 1995, Kyiv, Ukraine.

• Kyiv city art Gallery “LAVRA”, the main municipal gallery of Kyiv, est. 1996.

• "Josip Račić" Gallery of the National Museum of Modern Art in Zagreb, Croatia, est. 1992.