Oksana Gural (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lviv, Ukraine. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from the National Forestry University of Ukraine, and studied at the Oleksa Novakivskyi Lviv Children’s Art School.
In 2024, she completed the “Artist Career” course at SKVOT School, led by Marina Shcherbenko. In 2026, she completed the Creative Career Compass 5.0 educational program at Art Navigator Academy.
During the Creative Career Compass 5.0 program, Oksana Gural became a member of the ZGRAYA art collective, formed through the program. The collective won a hackathon and presented its resulting exhibition, “Nesting Trajectory,” at Peremoga Space in Kyiv.
Alongside her artistic practice, Oksana Gural is the founder of Gural Jewelry, a craft studio specializing in alternative jewelry art.
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The work emerged from my experience of trauma as a turning point. The injury became a moment when fear, pain, and pressure broke through my inner defenses and changed the way I perceived myself and the world.
In the process of creating the work, I reinterpret this experience through the metaphor of birth: what was initially experienced as a wound can become a passage into a new state. At first, there was light - pure colors and dots forming a continuous movement. Then came the injury - darkness, pressure, and a loss of form. Gradually, through a search for harmony, I began to construct a form that preserves the light.
For me, injury is not only trauma, but an experience through which a new form and inner strength emerge.
Oksana Gural (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lviv, Ukraine. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from the National Forestry University of Ukraine, and studied at the Oleksa Novakivskyi Lviv Children’s Art School.
In 2024, she completed the “Artist Career” course at SKVOT School, led by Marina Shcherbenko. In 2026, she completed the Creative Career Compass 5.0 educational program at Art Navigator Academy.
During the Creative Career Compass 5.0 program, Oksana Gural became a member of the ZGRAYA art collective, formed through the program. The collective won a hackathon and presented its resulting exhibition, “Nesting Trajectory,” at Peremoga Space in Kyiv.
Alongside her artistic practice, Oksana Gural is the founder of Gural Jewelry, a craft studio specializing in alternative jewelry art.
