Alina Zamanova

BIO

Alina Zamanova (b. 1993, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine) is a visual artist based in Kyiv. Her practice emerges from the lived experience of war and its impact on individuals, communities, and the environment. Working primarily with painting and sculpture, Zamanova documents the shifting realities of life under invasion —tracing how violence disrupts memory and routines, reshapes public and private space, and leaves lasting marks on both people and the land.

An artist is engaging with the land as a kind of archive—a material witness that absorbs and reflects human violence.The landscape is an active witness—a site where memory, absence, and history converge. She is particularly interested in how the earth holds evidence of destruction, and how the social fabric is altered in response. Her work moves between observation and reflection, drawing attention to the ways in which collective trauma becomes embedded in the structures of everyday life.

Living and working in a country under full-scale invasion, Zamanova’s artistic practice has become a direct response to the war in Ukraine. Her work emerges naturally from this shared reality, channeling attention toward the ongoing genocide.

For all enquiries please contact info@alinazamanova.com


CV

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions:

2025
Embodied memory rooted into a ruptured landscape, Mulier Mulier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2024
Vibrations of Nature, Mechelen, Belgium
2022
Our Children Are Fighting Too, The Smallest Gallery in Soho, London, UK


Group Exhibitions:

2024
Crisis of Imagination, зараз Ukraine, Galerie Bleekstraat 7, Mechelen, Belgium
Modern Ukrainian Art Exhibition, Mot x The Collectyv Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
Fierce Form, Art MegaStar, Los Angeles, USA
Atelier of Dreams, National Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
Art For Change, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2023
The Loudness of Silence, Cicada Curatorial, curated by Alina Perez and Arel Lisette, Online
Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition, Ruth Borchard, Atkinson Museum, UK
Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Scotland

2022
Bodyland, curated by Lauren Taschen, Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Aphrodite to Mars, curated by Nina de Maria, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK
Women Art in times of chaos, Simon De Pury, Online
Dance Macabre, Samuele Visentin, London, UK
Stand With Ukraine, Hales Gallery, London, UK

2021
Overexposed, The Visionary Projects, Online
In A New Light, Art City Works, Online
My Love is You Love, The Copeland Gallery, Every Woman Biennial, London, UK
Get a load of this, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London, UK

2019
The Art Odyssey, Raum Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Origins, The Art Vacancy , NYC, USA


Residencies:

2025
Tracey Emin Residency, Margate, UK

Awards:

2023
Art For Change Prize Europe Winner at Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Shortlisted for Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, London, UK
Royal Scottish Academy Meyer Oppenheim Prize
Shortlisted for John Moores Painting Prize

Education:

2015
BA (Hons) Illustration, University of the Arts London, UK
2012
Certificate Higher Education, University of the Arts London, UK
2011
BA (1 Year) , Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, Kyiv, Ukraine