Natalya Rusetska
My art is about the eternal, the timeless, the extraterrestrial, the hidden. One of the inherent features of sacred art is symbolism. This is a figurative creation that reveals the inner essence of the depicted. Sacred art affects and changes the spiritual state of human.
Was born in 1984 in Khmelnytskyi. In 2008 she graduated from the Department of Sacred Art of the Lviv National Academy of Arts. Lives and works in Lviv. Engages in contemporary sacred art. Since 2019, she has been working at the Lviv National Museum named after Andrey Sheptytsky. Her works can be found in private collections in Ukraine, Poland, Canada, the United States, Italy, Austria, and others.
Participation in exhibitions:
1. “Iconart: Visions of a World Unseen”, The Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, 2015
2. "Food for the soul", Iconart gallery, Lviv, 2015
3. Participation in the International plein-air exhibition of icon painters in Nowica (Poland), 2014-2021
4. Participation in the “Christmas in Iconart” project, Iconart gallery, Lviv, 2016-2022
5. Participation in the open-air icon painting "Sources", Truskavets, 2017, 2018, 2020
6. Joint exhibition "East Meets West: Women Icon Makers of Western Ukraine", St. Christopher’s Gallery Chatham, Massachusetts, USA, 2017
7. "Agape" exhibition Iconart gallery, Lviv, 2017
8. Participation in the plein air of Druskininkai, Lithuania, 2017
9. Participation in the open-air icon painting in Lourdes, France, 2018
10. Personal exhibition Museikon, Alba Iulia, Romania, 2019