Oksana Bagriy
In 2014, Oksana Bagriy earned her Master’s degree with Rector’s Distinction from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She completed her diploma in the printmaking studio of Professor Piotr Smolnicki, with an annex in lithography under Professor Błażej Ostoja Lnisk and an additional annex in painting in the studio of Professor Paweł Nowak.
Originally from Kyiv, she is also a graduate of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in her hometown. She continued her studies at the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw, where she worked in the graphic arts studio of Professor Ryszard Osadczy and studied painting under Professor Antoni Fałat.
She is a member of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP) and part of the “Młodzi Sztuka” (Young Art) group affiliated with the Warsaw branch of ZPAP. She currently lives and works in Warsaw.
Artistic Statement:
“I no longer think I can create a sculpture without a specific drawing. Drawing offers me an additional way to divide the body, and that brings me joy. Through drawing, I give the sculpture another layer of expression—it becomes the final detail. For me, drawing completes the form, as it did in POSTHEAD, where simple geometric forms were enhanced by the drawing, further dividing them into new segments.
It is impossible to create a completely transparent, invisible sculpture—there is always some color. If color is present, let it mean something. Let it shape a new space or define something essential—like the context of our thoughts. In my sculpture Flosig I, I suggested this idea. Inside his head is a lattice with a characteristic green hue—perhaps this is the color of his thoughts? The sculpture considers a question posed to it. It will answer, but it must reflect first…”
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Jose Maria Vargas University – Vargas Gallery, Florida, USA
Dean’s Award from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw for Best Graphic Work (3rd quarter, 2013), 20th Jubilee Edition of the Graphics in Warsaw competition
Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the Gaude Polonia program (2007)
Winner of the Ukrainian Cultural Fund’s “New Names of Ukraine – 99” competition
2015
9th Biennial of Student Graphics, Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań, Poland
Traces, DAP Gallery (ZPAP OW), Warsaw, Poland
Jasinski & Friends III, Gallery at the National Theatre, Warsaw, Poland
2014
Graphics in Warsaw 2013, 20th Edition, Mazovian Institute of Culture, Test Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
12th International Autumn Art Salon, Bureau of Art Exhibitions, Ostrów Świętokrzyski, Poland
17th Deutsche Internationale Grafik-Triennale, Frechen, Germany
Polish Female Artist – The Traditional and Modern Path of Art, State Gallery of Art, Yerevan, Armenia
Warsaw, DAP Gallery (ZPAP OW), Warsaw, Poland
Art Graphic Studio Exhibition, UMCS Art Department, Zajezdnia Gallery, Lublin, Poland
2013
Polish Review of Lithography, “KOBRO” Gallery, Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts, Łódź, Poland
Polish Review of Lithography, BWA Galleries, Kielce and Rzeszów, Poland
Strangers in Paradise – Feminization of Migration, Spanish Cultural Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Allegory: Beyond Cultural Imagery and Banalities, Vargas Gallery, Florida, USA
Mail Art: Memory!, Richmond Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
2nd Art Festival Young at Art, Burza Project, House of the Artist, Warsaw, Poland
