Biography of Iryna Vlasiuk

Iryna Vlasiuk was born in 1985 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kyiv. Has a higher technical education in the specialty "Artistic and Jewelry Casting", National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute named after Ihor Sikorsky" .

Studied at the School of Conceptual Photography MYPH, course 9.0 "New Mythologies" by Serhiy Melnychenko and SKVOT, course "Artists' Career".

Since 2022, she has been actively exhibiting, has participated in about 30 group exhibitions in galleries and art spaces in Ukraine and abroad, in particular in Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Austria. Participated in photo festivals and art fair. In 2021, she released a book of photographs "Perception", publishing house "Snap Collective Publishing". Has awards and honors in art competitions, publications in specialized publications. Works with digital and analog photography, collage.

Member of MYPH and UWPO (Organization of Ukrainian Women Photographers).

In her practice, she explores the themes of human interaction with the environment, contact between people, the feeling of oneself in space, the connection of the emotional, mental, spiritual with the physical, bodily. While studying and practicing body psychotherapy, she saw how trauma and unexpressed emotions manifest through bodily reactions. She also uses this knowledge in her artistic activity. In general, creativity has a therapeutic focus for both the author and the participants of the practices, it encourages reflection and self-knowledge.