Kateryna Kuziv
I believe that art should testify of beauty. The search for it always leads to God as the original source - that is why I choose iconography. Beauty always points to something more, a sense of God's presence. Creating icons for me is a pursuit of God, of paradise as a state of being with Him, a reproduction of the transformed reality, of the purified nature of humanity from sin. The time when I create the icon is my way of praying, questioning, searching, the time of being with God, before God, the state of happiness and peace. The aim is to express the "incarnation" of God's Word in a visual image, where a touch of God's reality must take place to awaken a longing for God, to promote the pursuit of Him.
Born in Lviv in 1993.
Artist and lecturer at the Department of Visual Design and Art of Lviv Polytechnic National University.
Education:
1999–2007 – studies at Oleksa Novakivskyi Children’s Art School
2009–2015 – studies at Lviv National Academy of Arts, Department of Monumental Painting
Author of solo exhibitions:
“Synergy” 2015, anti-café “COME IN”, Lviv
“Holy Day” 2018, “ICONART” Gallery, Lviv
“Filled with the Holy Spirit” 2019, “ICONART” Gallery, Lviv
“Kadosh” 2021, “ICONART” Gallery, Lviv
“Being” 2021, Center for Contemporary Art, Ivano-Frankivsk; 2022, “Dzyga” (“Kvartyra 35”), Lviv
Curator and co-author of the project with Yuliya Vintoniv “Why doesn’t the sky fall?” 2023, “ICONART” Gallery, Lviv; 2024, House of Icons, Poland; 2024, Nowica Foundation, Nowica, Poland
Participant of international icon-painting plein-airs:
Nowica, since 2015
Plein-air “Dzherela” 2020–2021, Truskavets
Sacred art residency “By this sign you shall conquer” 2024, Zhovkva
Charity icon-painting plein-air UCU “Christmas. Hope” 2025, Nyzhnia Rozhanka
2025 – “Christmas. Hope” St. Sophia Church, UCU, Lviv
2025 – “New Icon” National Museum named after Andrey Sheptytsky, Lviv
Exhibitions:
2023 – “In the Midst of the Storm”, Art Salon Veles, Lviv
2023 – “Icon Saves Lives – Ukraine”, Ukrainian House in Washington, Artfira Gallery
2022 – “Icons Against War”, Nuremberg, Germany
2022 – “Faces of Freedom”, National Reserve “Sophia of Kyiv”, Khlibnya exhibition hall, Kyiv
2022 – “Art of Resistance”, Collegi Magor Rector Peset at the University of Valencia, Spain
2021 – International Exhibition of Sacred Art “OKSSA 2021. Motherhood of Mary”, Wroclaw, Poland
2021 – “New Icon”, Savchenko Gallery, Gdańsk, Poland
2021 – Home-Coming “Thyself”, virtual exhibition, Romania
2021 – “Images of the Passion and Resurrection”, Cathedral in Kuopio, Finland
2021 – “ICONART” Exhibition in Philadelphia
2020–2021 – “Easter at ICONART”, ICONART Gallery, Lviv
2018–2021 – “Christmas at ICONART”, ICONART Gallery, Lviv
2020 – “Anticipation+Immunity”, Korsaks’ Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Lutsk
2020 – “Prophetic Crosses of Ukraine”, Lviv Palace of Arts, Lviv
2020 – “COV19 2020”, Batumi, Georgia
2019 – “Contemporary Icon”, Marburg, Germany
2019, 2023 – First All-Ukrainian Levkas Biennale, “White World” Gallery, Kyiv
Works are kept in museum collections and private collections.