Krystyna Melnyk
Born in Melitopol in 1993 and now lives and works in Kyiv. She graduated from The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (2018), the monumental painting department. In 2019, she took an evening course in contemporary art at KAMA. In her practice, Krystyna works with images that use the double power of an icon. She rejects the narrative concept in figurative painting and chooses a combination of different semantic layers. Krystyna studies the sacred through the image of the suffering body, which also plays a significant role in her practice. She uses levkas, soil, which is traditionally used in icon painting.
2022-2023
KRYSTYNA MELNYK: IN FRONT OF PAIN at GANDY GALLERY
2022
Nominated for PinchukArtPrize
2020
Personal exhibition, creative space Okno, Kyiv
2019
Crossroads Sea, Voloshyn Gallery, Kyiv
To Live Together, Graduate Show of Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, The Naked Room Gallery, Kyiv
