Elmira Shemsedinova
Elmira Shemsedinova
(Ельміра Шемседінова)
Artist, painter, teacher of Arts
Exhibiting since 2009. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 2013.
Create painting and graphic works in various techniques and developed originally own
approach using the technique of imitating watercolor painting using oil paints. Continue to study
painting as a language of visual communication. Being in constant search of new opportunities
of representing and rethinking classical painting.
Held 6 personal exhibitions and participated in more than 37 collective projects, auctions and art
fairs in Ukraine and abroad. Artworks become a part of different collections in Europe, USA and
China. Actively participant of competitions, international art residencies and contemporary art
symposiums. Teacher of Arts in Professional College of Arts and Design of KNUTD (Kyiv) since 2018.
• Education:
2007 – 10/2013 – National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv. (Mykola Storozhenko
monumental painting studio. Magistracy) Kyiv, Ukraine.
2013 – 2017 – Post-graduate assistantship at the National Academy of Fine Arts and
Architecture. Ukraine.
1999 – 2007 –Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State Art Lyceum, Ukraine.
• Personal exhibitions:
2023 – personal project “TENSE HORIZON”, performance. QL-galerie Graz, Austria.
2019 – Personal exhibition “Portrait of sketch” Invogue Art. Odessa, Ukraine.
2018 – Snapshot (in collaboration with Yuriy Zubrin), Institut français d’Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2017 – personal project “Last Crimean album”, Bereznitsky Foundation Gallery. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016 – personal exhibition Child of China, Suzhou Middle Art School №6 Museum. China, Suzhou.
2014 – personal exhibition “Landscapes”, Art Mix Gallery. Kyiv, Ukraine.• Art residences:
2023 – participate in “Artist in Residence program”, Stieglerhaus– Gemeinnützige, St. Stefan ab
Stainz, Austria.
2022 – Residensy in QL Gallery and Afro-Asian Institute Graz, Austria.
2021 – Art Residency in Radisson Blu Hotel with Spilne.art, final exhibition “Room with a view”.
Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019 – Project «Exodus» on BIRUCHIY International Art Residency, Ukraine.
2018 – BIRUCHIY Art Residency and symposium of Contemporary Art, Ukraine.
2018 – Velykyi Pereviz Residency. Poltava region, Ukraine.
2017 – BIRUCHIY Art Residency and symposium of Contemporary Art, Ukraine.
2016 – BIRUCHIY Art Residency and symposium of Contemporary Art, Ukraine.
2012 – Velykyi Pereviz Residency. Poltava region, Ukraine.
• Main group exhibitions and collective art projects:
2024 – collective project Art and exchange in diaspora with ANN Verein, Gallery Exhibit
Eschenbachgasse, Vienna, Austria.
2024 – collective project “The WAVES” in gallery Akbild, Vienna, Austria.
2024 – collective pop-up exhibition with Ziegel community in Graz, Austria.
2023 – collective media art project “Records of resistance” Oberhausen, Germany.
2022 – collective exhibition “Art War”, Dom Innowacji, Warsaw, Poland
2022 – collective exhibition “Lost Land”, Akademie Graz, Graz, Austria.
2022 – collective exhibition “Revelation”, Brulhart Gallery. Geneva, Switzerland.
2021 – mixed media art project “Sound of the city” (sculpture “Crimea”), UCF & Spilne.art,
Ukrainian House. https://zvukymista.com/ Kyiv, Ukraine.
2021 – mixed media art project and residency “Shljax\Yol”, Crimea House of Kyiv, Lviv & UCF,
Museum Ivana Honchara and NAAFA. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020 – project «Воуs by girls» of Gallery 39.9., Auction house Korners. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2020 – KYIVART WEEK’20. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2018 – Ukrainian still life, Karas Gallery and Modern Art Research Institute of the National
Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2018 – Museum project “Milky Way”, Museum of Ukrainian diaspora. Київ, Україна.
2018 – Trans mimesis, Voloshyn Gallery. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2018 – Underground Contemporary, Golden Section Auction House. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2018 – Neoshamanizm, on Residency of BIRUCHIY,
2017 – Kyiv Аrt and Film Biennale. Worpswede, Germany.
2016 – Botanica, Gallery Lavra. Kyiv, Ukraine.
