Oksana Gural (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lviv, Ukraine. She holds a Bachelorâs degree in Architecture and a Masterâs degree in Urban Planning from the National Forestry University of Ukraine, and studied at the Oleksa Novakivskyi Lviv Childrenâs Art School.
In 2024, she completed the âArtist Careerâ 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, âNesting Trajectory,â 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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Oksana Gural
Artist from Ukraine
Oksana Gural (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lviv, Ukraine. She holds a Bachelorâs degree in Architecture and a Masterâs degree in Urban Planning from the National Forestry University of Ukraine, and studied at the Oleksa Novakivskyi Lviv Childrenâs Art School.
In 2024, she completed the âArtist Careerâ 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, âNesting Trajectory,â 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 installation âWoven from the Pastâ explores how lived experience remains part of a person even when its original context changes.
The work is made from wooden beads that I previously used to create jewelry. After 2022, due to repeated relocations and a prolonged pause in my practice, I continued to keep these materials, unable to return to my previous way of working with them.
At the end of 2025, I decided to clear the space of accumulated materials. The beads were transformed from jewelry-making materials into the foundation of a different object - a small rug.
For me, this process became a way of rethinking my own experience: neither returning to the past in its original form nor rejecting it, but integrating it into a new context through a change of form.
The material retains its history while acquiring a different function. The past emerges not as something to return to, but as a foundation from which a new form can take shape.
Oksana Gural (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lviv, Ukraine. She holds a Bachelorâs degree in Architecture and a Masterâs degree in Urban Planning from the National Forestry University of Ukraine, and studied at the Oleksa Novakivskyi Lviv Childrenâs Art School.
In 2024, she completed the âArtist Careerâ 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, âNesting Trajectory,â 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.
