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EDUCATION:
1978 - Master of Art in Textile & Design, Academy of Decorative and Applied Art, Lviv, Ukraine
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2003 – 2007 – Freelance journalist for Archideja magazine, Ukraine
2000 – presence – Freelance artist
1997 - 2000 - Professor, Head of Department of Management of Fashion Business, Kyiv National University Culture and Art, Ukraine
1978 - 1997 – Designer, Cherkassy Silk Factory, Ukraine, USSR
SOLO SHOWS:
2022/2023 — Legacy: 25 Years of Art and Community - The Early Years, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2019 — SHE, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA,
2017 — RECYCLED, Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, Lviv, Ukraine
2015 — SHE, Tsekh gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 — A VALYA Retrospective, Vision Art Museum, SD, CA
2011 — Everything But Memory, TSECH gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2009 — Cell Memory. BABA, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2008 — Cell Memory, TSECH Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 — Flights in Dream and Reality, Betriebsraum Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2003 — Color Here and Abroad, painting on silk, Phantom Gallery, Oceanside, CA
2001 — Lavender Dreams, Elle Lui Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
1996 — Tapestry and Painting on Silk, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, USSR
1991 — Tapestry and Painting on Silk, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, USSR
SELECTED EXHIBITION:
2016 — Reality Check, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
2016 — California Fibers: Eclectic Threads, Oceanside Museum of Art, CA
2016 — Recycled, Branch gallery, Inglewood, CA
2015 — Women Artists of the Ukrainian Diaspora, The Ukrainian Museum, NY NY
2013/2017 - Earth Story. He Knew That She Knew That I Know
— Michigan State University Museum of Art, Michigan, MI
— Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, OH
— San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, CA
— Huntington Museum of Art, WV
— Erie Museum of Art, Erie, PA
2013/2016 - Radical Element. Titanium
— National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
— Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Melbourne,FL
2014 - Art Auction 2014, fundraising exhibition at Oceanside Museum of Art, CA
2013 - Metaphors on Aging: SAQA Exhibition
— Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England
— International Quilt Convention, Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013 – Out of Tradition. Contemporary Decorative and Applied Art, The Ukrainian
Museum, New York, NY
2013 – Juried Biennial at the William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, C
2012 - Quilt Visions 2012: Brainstorms, Vision Art Museum, SD, CA
2012 - Grey Scale, Strathmore Fine Art Gallery, North Bethesda, MD
2012 - ARTVILNIUS’12 Biennial, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 - CONTEXTILE, Contemporary Textile Triennial, Guimaraes, Portugal
2012 - Tracing the Steps, Vision Art Museum, San Diego, CA
2012 - Here and Now, Werby Gallery, Cal State Long Beach, CA
2012 - Everything in Between: Art Quilt, Fabric Collage, and Embroidery, Braithwaite Fine Art Gallery, SUU, Cedar city, Utah
2011 - Kaunas Biennial TEXTILE’11, Picture Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
2010 - California Fibers 40 Years, San Bernadino Valley College, CA
2010 - Cannon Gallery Biennale, Cannon Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2010 - Beyond Comfort, SAQA travel show
2010 - No Boundaries, Quilt Visions at Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside CA,
2010 - Creative Force 2010, SAQA travel show
2009 - Dream Weavers, Riverside College Gallery, Riverside, CA
2008 – Forms in Wood and Fiber, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
2008 – California Dreaming: California Fibers at Convergence, Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
2007 – Triennial of Fiber Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
2007 –Fabric of the Imagination: Art by Quilt Visions Members, Visions Gallery, San Diego, CA
2007 –Shining Stars in the Seasons of Art, Gallery D’Art International, Solana Beach
2005 – Gathering Light”, Gallery D’Art International, Solana Beach, CA
2004 – Fantasy, La Jolla Fiber Arts Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2003 – The Fiber of Coronado, Museum of History and Art, Coronado, CA
2001 - Tactile Matters, ‘A’ Street Gallery, Santa Rosa, Ca
2000 - Silk Braid, Gallery “Lavra” gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
1999 - Exhibition of Textile Art, Center of Contemporary Art, Lviv, Ukraine
1998 - International Exhibition of Mini-Textiles, Lviv, Ukraine
1998 - The Decade of Liberty, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
1998 - Women’s Vision, International Art Exhibition, Byshkek, Kyrgystan
1996 - Exhibition of Ukrainian Silk Painters, Museum of Contemporary Decorative Art, Khmelnitsk, Ukraine
1994 - First Exhibition of Ukrainian Silk Painters, Museum of Contemporary Decorative Art, Khmelnitsk, Ukraine
1994 - International Contemporary Art Symposium, Museum of Art, Khust, Ukraine
1992 - Contemporary Art Symposium, Sedniv, Ukraine
1991 - Exhibition of Emerging Artists, Manezh Exhibition Hall, Moscow, USSR
1989 - First Ukrainian Exhibition of Miniature Textile, L’viv, Ukraine
1989 - Fourth International Exhibition of Miniature Art, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, CA
AWARDS:
2013 – Jurors’ Choice Award, 2013 Juried Biennial at the William D. Cannon Art Gallery.
2012 - Honorable Mention at Kaunas Biennial TEXTILE’11,
2010 - Brakensiek Caught Our Eye Award, No Boundaries, Quilt Vision gallery, CA
1980 - Best of the show at Annual exhibition of Art and Design, Kiev, Ukraine
TRADE EXHIBITIONS:
1982 - International Textile Show, Warsaw, Poland
1980 - International Textile Show, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
1978 - 1988- Annual exhibitions of Art and Design, Kiev, Ukraine
MEMBERSHIPS:
National Artist League of Ukraine, since 1996
National Design League of Ukraine, founding member
California Fibers, 2005 - 2018
Quilt Visions, since 2003 - 2018
SAQA, since 2009 - 2018
Surface Design, since 2012 - 2018
PUBLICATIONS:
1000 Quilt Inspiration, Quarry Book, 2014
Fiber Arts Now, Spring 2013 , volume 2, issue 3, page 44 - 45
500 FELT OBJECTS, Lark Book, 2011
500 ART QUILTS, Lark Book , 2010
Decorative Art of Ukraine of the End of XX-th Century.200 Names, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2002
UKRAINIAN ART OF XX TH CENTURY, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1999
TEXTILE FORUM, volume # 5, 1999
ARTANIYA, volume # 1, 1997 Ukraine
ACADEMIYA, volume # 5, 1996 Ukraine
MUSTECTVO, volume # 7, 1995 Ukraine
UKRAINA, volume # 13, 1993 Ukraine
ART, volume # 3, 1989 Ukraine
COLLECTIONS:
Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, Lviv, Ukraine
Museum of Ukrainian Decorative Art, L’viv, Ukraine
Museum of Modern Ukrainian Decorative Art, Khmelnytsk, Ukraine
Museum of Lviv Academy of Art, Lviv, Ukraine
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
USA, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, New Zealand