Yaryna Shumska

Visual artist, performer, curator and lecturer. She works in the fields of performance art, painting, graphics, installation. She explores the concept of presence expressed through the body and the visual sign it creates, presence as a manifestation of the "here and now", the spoken and unsaid, what we say out loud and what remains between the lines. She graduated from the Lviv National Academy of Arts (LNAA). She was a grant holder of the "Gaude Polonia" scholarship program of the Minister of Culture of Poland, she was shortlisted for the Young Ukrainian Artists Competition “MYXi” (2015), the II Youth Biennale of Contemporary Art of Ukraine (2019). She is an author of solo exhibitions and art projects in Ukraine, Poland, Spain. She participated in numerous exhibitions, performance art festivals, and conferences in Ukraine, Poland, Italy, Norway, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Japan, Thailand, Canada and USA etc. She is a co-organizer and co-curator of the "School of Performance" (2019) “FNAF in Lviv” (2024) in the framework of the International festival "Days of Art Performance in Lviv", online residency ¨At the place¨ and ¨Performance Archiv. Ukraine¨ (2020). Yaryna Shumska teaches at the Department of Contemporary Art Practices at the Lviv National Academy of Arts (Ukraine). Her recent works were presented at Arctic Action (Svalbard, Norway), А231 Federação (Salvador, Brasil). For more detailed information: yarynashumska.com