Visual artist, performer, curator and lecturer. 

Yaryna Shumska works in the fields of performance art, painting, graphics, installation, and dance. 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.

 

PhD.  Yaryna Shumska 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, and Spain. She participated in numerous exhibitions, performance art festivals, and conferences in Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Norway, Japan, Thailand, Canada, USA etc.

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She is a co-organiser 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). She used to teach at the Department of Contemporary Art Practices at the LNAA (Ukraine), and led the Visiting Artist Studio in the Faculty of Fine Art at Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic).

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Her recent works were presented at FEM (Madremanya, Spain), Arctic Action (Svalbard, Norway), Lab for Ukraine & Evening for Ukraine (Finland/Ukraine) EXPERYMENT Oko Nigdy Nie Spi (Bydgoszcz, Poland), А231 Federação (Salvador, Brazil).