Yana Hudzan. Side Glance

The young artist Yana Hudzan has chosen as the subject of her paintings images of Ukrainian village grandmothers, surrounded by the everyday life and traditions inherent to them, which reflect their lived experience as a quintessence of social memory, heritage, and mythology. She explores Ukrainian identity through a contemporary ironic lens.

By combining various materials and techniques into multilayered compositions, she creates a visual language that is both intimate and expansive — a dialogue between past and present, between the self and society.

Without intervening, but merely observing out of the corner of the eye, one can notice patterns and inconsistencies, as well as familiar situations in which the same basic myth is reproduced in different settings. Through this play with archetypes, associations emerge that form visual images, and for a moment everything gains its explanation and meaning.

The opening of Yana Hudzan’s exhibition will take place on January 6 at 6:00 PM.
Exhibition hours: 12:00–7:00 PM, except Mondays.

About Yana Hudzan

Born in Lviv in 1994. A graduate of the Departments of Restoration and Sacred Art at the Lviv National Academy of Arts (LNAA).

Since 2020, she has actively participated in exhibitions and residencies in Ukraine and Poland, as well as in Finland, Belgium, and Uzbekistan. In 2024–2025, Yana took part in the Christmas exhibitions at the Zelena Kanapa gallery, and her works were also presented by us at art fairs at the Lavra Gallery in Kyiv. In 2024, Yana Hudzan was featured in the large-scale project MATERIA MATTERS: Ukrainian Artistic Textile at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv, where she presented collages with vintage textile rugs. In 2025, she participated in the international project Kruche obrazy / Fragile Images at the Ethnographic Museum of Krakow, Poland. The ZAG Gallery presented her works within the exhibition We in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Today, Yana Hudzan is one of the brightest and most distinctive Ukrainian artists of the new generation, deserving representation in the most prominent projects and collections of Ukrainian art.