POLINA KUZNETSOVA

Polina is a Ukrainian artist, who has lived and worked in Kharkiv all her life. After the Russian invasion began in February 2022, she was evacuated to Tallinn, Estonia.

Polina graduated from the Kharkiv Art School and the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts Polina has developed an extensive national and international exhibition history. She was presented by Victoria PacificGallery in the United States, China and the Philippines.

The painting of Polina Kuznetsova is characterized by a distinct individual artistic language. Working mainly with the silhouette and planes, the artist avoids deep space and explicit volume. She turns to the genre of portrait, landscape and still life, but in recent years he has shown an increasing interest in thematic and plot painting. In her works, a certain rigidity and tension of the artistic language prevails – strong contrasts of light and dark, expressive contour, sharp transmission of light and shade. Her work is also characterized by a passion for angularity of forms and lines.
The artist is always in a creative search, she is not afraid to experiment, changing color preferences, themes and features of working with form.

EXHIBITIONS

2022 – collective exhibition “Art of Ukraine”, Four Seasons Hotel Denver, USA
2022 – solo exhibition “Times”, Center for Contemporary Art, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2022 – collective online exhibition “Muses are not silent”, Lviv, Ukraine
2021- solo exhibition “Dreams”, Promodohub, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2021 – solo exhibition “Bio Easter”, Art Center Chocolate House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020- solo exhibition “Dreams”, Art Center Chocolate House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 – solo exhibition “Bio Easter”, Art Center Chocolate House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 – solo exhibition “Clay”, Nurberg House, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019 – collective exhibition “On the ground”, gallery “AS”, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019 – collective exhibition “Emoveo”, Gallery 83, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 – collective exhibition “Looking West”, Manila, Philippines
2014 – collective exhibition, “Painters of Repin school”, Qingdao, China
2013 – collective exhibition “Art Beijing”, China
2013 – collective exhibition “Art Canton”, China
2013 – Shenzhen Art Fair, China