Uliana Balan

Visual artist, Illustrator, Art teacher. Uliana lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

Education:

2002 –2008 Assistant-Internship Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts and Restoration, National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Ukraine.

  Senior project titled: “The series of Ukrainian folk linocut puzzles about animals”.

1997 –2002 Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Visual Arts and Restoration, National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Ukraine.

Diploma project entitled: “The series of illustrations of the Ukrainian folk crib”.

Scholarships, certificates and awards:

2020 – Finalist of the “Habitat. Manifest 2020”, Lavra Kyiv City Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2018 - Certificate of advanced study at the Postgraduate Training Institute of Kyiv National University of Technology and Design (KNUTD), Kyiv, Ukraine;

Residence:

2022: residency at KKV in Stockholm, Sweden (from the Swan residency network) -

Personal exhibitions:

2018: “Excursion”, Competition of the Theater, Music and Cinema Museum of Ukraine, Apartment-museum of composer V.S. Kosenko, Kyiv.

2017: “4 days in Odessa”, Municipal Museum of Personal Collections Bleschunov Odessa, Odessa.

2017: “Excursion”, Location Gallery, Kyiv.

Collective exhibitions:

2022: "Home/Hem" - collective exhibition project, Mångkulturellt centrum, Stockholm

2022: All-Ukrainian graphic design exhibition-competition named after Heorhiy Yakutovych, House of Artists, Kyiv.

2020: "Habitat.Manifest 2020", Lavra Kyiv City Art Gallery), Kyiv, Ukraine; Finalist of the project competition "Habitat. Manifest 2020"

2020: “Ukrainian Print Exchange №4 Gallery 83, Kyiv, Ukraine;

2019: “A4, Ballpoint pen”, KARAS Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine;

2019: International Biennial of Small Graphic Engraving, Timisoara, Romania

2018: “A4, Ballpoint pen”, KARAS Gallery, Kyiv.

2018: “Exchange of Ukrainian prints №2-3*”, Gallery 83, Kyiv.

2018: 50th anniversary of the exhibition of works of art of the Kyiv National Regional Union of Artists. House of Artists, Kyiv.

2018: All-Ukrainian exhibition “Ukrainian Volksmodern”, Union of Ukrainian Artists, Chernivtsi.

2017: International Project “Sofia- Wisdom of God”, National Reserve of the Metropolitan House of Sofia, Kyiv.

2017: “A4, Ballpoint pen”, KARAS Gallery, Kyiv.

2018: ХVІІ All-Ukrainian Exhibition “The World of God is like Easter”, Union of Artists of Ukraine, Uzhhorod

2016: “Odessa in sketches”, Urban sketchers Odessa, Bleschunov Odessa municipal museum of personal collections, Odessa.

From the year 2013- regular participant of collective exhibitions Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv.