Vayda Myroslav

Born in 1977 in Transcarpathia. Works in performance, installation, painting, land art, and photography.

Education

Studied at the Adalbert Erdeli Uzhhorod College of Arts and the Lviv National Academy of Arts.

Artistic Path

Co-founder and member of the “KOMA” art formation (2007).

Recipient of the Gaude Polonia scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland (2009).

Myroslav Vayda’s works have been presented at major art forums in Ukraine, including the PinchukArtCentrePrize 2009 — an exhibition of 20 young Ukrainian artists at PinchukArtCentre, Week of Contemporary Art in Lviv (2010), and the Grand Sculpture Salon at Mystetskyi Arsenal (2012). He has also held solo projects in Poland and Lithuania.

Selected solo exhibitions:

2017

– Częstotliwość swiatła (The Frequency of Light), a solo exhibition under the programme of the residence/festival Katowice Street Art AiR 2017, in the former Galeria Miasta Ogrodów building. Katowice, Poland

Selected group exhibitions:

2019

– BIG CIRCLE, an international collaboration project of contemporary non-objective art at M17 Contemporary Art Center. Kyiv, Ukraine

2018

– Icons \ Icon. Essencie, the 10th exhibition of the KNO Lab.Space international project of laboratory exhibitions, at Literature-Memorial Museum to Mikhail Bulgakov. Kyiv, Ukraine

2017

– Nawzajem (Mutually), an exhibition of participants of Fundacja Związku Polaków miasta Kijowa residence at Ukraiński Dom w Warszawie. Warsaw, Poland

2016

– Ukrajins’kyj Zriz: Przeobrażenia (Cross-Section of Ukraine: Transformations), III Triennial of Ukrainian Art at the Centre for the Meeting of Cultures. Lublin, Poland

2015

– Paper / World / Art, Shcherbenko Art Centre project at The V International Book Arsenal Festival in Mystetskyi Arsenal. Kyiv, Ukraine

2014

– I Am a Drop in the Ocean. Art of the Ukrainian Revolution at the Künstlerhaus. Vienna, Austria
– Pocztówki z Majdanu (Postcards from Maidan) at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle. Warsaw, Poland

2012

– Leidžiant laiką: tebuvo matyti vien sniego platybė, balta kaip šis lapas (Taking Time: Only the Expanse of Snow Could Be Seen, White as This Page) at VAA gallery Akademija. Vilnius, Lithuania

2011

– 1 Landart Festiwal on the Vistula. Lublin, Poland