Sushelnytska Iryna

Education Sushelnytska graduated from the South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky, Faculty of Fine Arts and Graphics, receiving a Master’s degree with distinction.

Artistic practice Sushelnytska works across a wide range of media including painting, graphics, sculpture, installation, digital art and video art. Her artistic style is based on a sign-symbolic approach that combines traditional and contemporary artistic forms.

Her work addresses themes of identity, social justice, ecology, cultural memory, and the interaction between humans and technological civilization. Her practice shows a strong influence of metamodernism, which allows her to combine elements of classical art with cutting-edge digital media.

Sushelnytska signs her works with several signature variants, including a traditional signature and the monogram ‘’‘SILa’’’, formed from the initials of her surname, first name and patronymic. Each signature is an important element of the identification of her works.

The sign-symbolic style is a characteristic creative hallmark of the artist: she draws the viewer’s attention to certain forms of the external world, interpreting events in a mythopoetic key, similar to the Ukrainian Baroque, which emphasizes the cultural value of Ukrainian identity.

War and resilience Despite the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Sushelnytska chose to remain in Odesa and continue creating. Japanese international press agency Asia Press described her as an artist who, despite missile strikes on Odesa, stayed in her hometown and continues to create, striving to convey the truth about the war to the global community.

Selected exhibitions International

2024 — «Les Couleurs Art Gallery», Miami, USA

2023 — «D Contemporary Gallery, London, UK 2023 — Sorbonne Art Gallery, project «Voice of War», University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France 2023 — St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Scotland 2022 — Auction «Save Ukraine», Gallery Exode «Lebanese artists for peace», Beirut, Lebanon 2022 — Group exhibition «Ukraine, European Solidarity» «Art of Ukraine»: Constanța, Warsaw, Sofia 2022 — Exhibition project «Indestructible Wall» «Supernova. Art of Ukraine», Basel Art Center, Basel, Switzerland

Ukraine

2025 — Solo exhibition of graphic art, painting and textiles, UNION International Cultural Center, Odesa, Ukraine. 2023 — Personal exhibition, Center of Contemporary Art of Ukraine «UNION» 2023 — Graphic exhibition «CODE», Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odesa (solo exhibition) 2022 — Exhibition of war paintings in Odesa 2022 — XI All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition-Competition named after Georgiy Yakutovych, Kyiv 2021 — IX All-Ukrainian Triennial «Graphics-2021», Kyiv 2021 — UAFRA «Ukrainian Association of Women’s Studies in Art», «Femininity!», Kyiv 2021 — International Exhibition-Festival of Contemporary Art «CONNECT», Mykolaiv ART Week

Recognition Sushelnytska holds the title Honored Artist of Ukraine (2023).