Painter, born 1996 in Odesa, Ukraine. She spent most of her childhood in the village of Podillia, Ukraine. In 2010, she graduated from a school of ballet, and in 2013, she and her family emigrated to Toronto, Canada. There, in 2020, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from York University. In 2020, Sana Shahmuradova decided to move to Kyiv, where she continues to work in the fields of painting and graphics. She uses various materials in her work, such as wood, burlap, canvas, and oil paints. Sana is also exploring her origins and using trauma as a tool to communicate and connect with her ancestors. Her latest works examine transgenerational traumas and the role of dreams in them, often highlighting the violence and atrocities committed against civilians and nature by the aggressor state, Russia. Her paintings were recently shown at the DHAKA Art Summit in Bangladesh, Mystetsky Arsenal in Kyiv, and EVA International Biennial in Limerick, Ireland. 2024 is marked by the presentation of her works at the Biennale of Sydney. She lives and works in Kyiv.
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Hypnopompia (During Air Raid Siren), 2023, oil on canvas, 160 x 134 cm, 63 x 52 3/4 in
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Hypnopompia (During Air Raid Siren), 2023, oil on canvas, 160 x 134 cm, 63 x 52 3/4 in
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Bosom of the Land, 2023, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, 31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Bosom of the Land, 2023, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, 31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, SENSING PLACES / PLACING SENSES, ODP Galerie, 2022, exhibition view
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, SENSING PLACES / PLACING SENSES, ODP Galerie, 2022, exhibition view
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska in her Kyiv studio, 2023. Photo: Daria Svertilova
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska in her Kyiv studio, 2023. Photo: Daria Svertilova
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, SENSING PLACES / PLACING SENSES, ODP Galerie, 2022, exhibition view
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, SENSING PLACES / PLACING SENSES, ODP Galerie, 2022, exhibition view
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Catching circles – then they match again, Gunia Nowik Gallery, 2023, exhibition view
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Catching circles – then they match again, Gunia Nowik Gallery, 2023, exhibition view
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Catching circles – then they match again, Gunia Nowik Gallery, 2023, exhibition view
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Catching circles – then they match again, Gunia Nowik Gallery, 2023, exhibition view
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, 40th EVA International, 2023, exhibition view, photo: Jed Niezgoda
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, 40th EVA International, 2023, exhibition view, photo: Jed Niezgoda
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, 24th Biennale of Sydney, Ten Thousand Suns, 2024, Artspace, Sydney, Australia, exhibition views, photo: Document Photography / Emma Moser
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, 24th Biennale of Sydney, Ten Thousand Suns, 2024, Artspace, Sydney, Australia, exhibition views, photo: Document Photography / Emma Moser
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, 24th Biennale of Sydney, Ten Thousand Suns, 2024, Artspace, Sydney, Australia, exhibition views, photo: Document Photography / Emma Moser
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, 24th Biennale of Sydney, Ten Thousand Suns, 2024, Artspace, Sydney, Australia, exhibition views, photo: Document Photography / Emma Moser
Solo exhibitions:
2024
I Dreamt… Did I Dream…?, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2023
Catching circles – then they match again, Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2021
The Waxing Crescent Myth, Muzeon Experimental Center, Museum of Modern Art of Odesa, Ukraine
Group exhibitions:
2024
Unsettled Subjects, STATION, Sydney, Australia
Land of Fire, Kunsthalle Bega, Timișoara, Romania
Is death not the end?, Museum of Odesa Modern Art, Ukraine
CRASH CLUB x U22, Al. Ujazdowskie 22, Warsaw, Poland
Secondary Archive: Women Artists in War, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
Trust the Stream, Coulisse Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Ten Thousand Suns, 24th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
The Sharp Smell of Flowers, Krupa Art Foundation, Wrocław, Poland
2023
Further than Light or Language, Voloshyn Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
Four Slag Heaps, i am you are – Ukrainian Creators Fair, Los Angeles, California, USA
40th EVA International – Ireland’s Biennale of Contemporary Art, Limerick, Ireland
Forms of Presence, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
DHAKA Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh
A za derevom derevo (Tree after a Tree), Asortymentna Kimnata, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2022
STRUM, Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Odesa, Ukraine
My House Is Your House, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Chernoziem, Galeria Dim, Warszawa, Poland
Set Phosphenes, Studio for Artistic Research, Düsseldorf, Germany
CONTRAPUNCT, Künstlerhaus Vereinigung, Vienna, Austria
SENSING PLACES / PLACING SENSES, ODP Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
As in the Cinema, Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine
If it is no war today, it doesn't mean there is no war, Goethe Institut, Kraków, Poland
APOKALIPSYS, Diogenes gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
In Ukraine, Gallery at Dobin Mews, New York, USA
2019
Long Winter Toronto/The Arctic Night, Harbourfront Centre's Festival Of Cool, Toronto, Canada
2018
ART SALON, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
L'EVASION, Kensington Market, Toronto, Canada
Selected collections:
Samdani Art Foundation and private collections in Poland and abroad
