Waiting: Contemplative Figurative Artwork in Sepia, Taupe, and Cream, 2026

Yulia Shadrina  

Yulia Shadrina is a contemporary artist. She graduated from the Ural State University of Architecture and Art (USUAA), Faculty of Design. She is a member of the Union of Designers of Russia and the founder and head of an interior design studio.

She continued her artistic education at The Florence Academy of Art (Florence, Italy, 2018–2020), completed a copyist practice at the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia, 2021–2022), and studied at Ilya Pyankov’s studio (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2020–2023).

Her solo exhibitions include, among others: the Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library named after V. G. Belinsky (Yekaterinburg, Russia), the ARTMUZA Museum of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Bagratuni Art Gallery (Moscow, Russia), and the Sverdlovsk State Academic Philharmonic (Yekaterinburg, Russia).
Selected group exhibitions include Art Capital 2026 (“Salon des Indépendants”, Grand Palais, Paris), the Union of Artists of Russia exhibition “Molodezhka – 2024” (Yekaterinburg, Russia), and the all-Russian competition exhibitions “RusscoART” (Exposed-art Gallery, Moscow, 2024–2025).

Currently, Yulia Shadrina is working on a series inspired by the nature of the Middle Urals. In her works, she metaphorically embodies natural elements and inanimate forms through the human figure, drawing on ancient perceptions of the world in which rocks, wind, and water are endowed with human traits—character, will, and physical presence. The nature of this interaction is central to her artistic research.