Anna Kostenko, Mediterranean Landscape, 2022

acrylic on canvas, 60.00 x 100.00 cm

She was born in 1975 in Kiev in a family of architects. She studied painting from 1993 to 1998 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and received a private scholarship to Paris from Prof. Jan Szancenbach. She graduated with a diploma with honors, shown in a solo exhibition at the TPSP art palace in Krakow. Immediately after her diploma, she started working with the Jorgensen Fine Art gallery (Dublin, Ireland), with which she collaborated for 18 years, covered by an exclusive contract. She works in the expressionist trend in oil and acrylic techniques. She enjoys experimenting, and the leitmotif of her work remains man and his aesthetic and cultural distinctiveness. She is currently working on the #LostFuture project, in which she combines elements of portraiture with contemporary iconography. She has had 27 solo exhibitions and numerous group projects. The artist's works can be found in numerous private collections around the world, as well as the collections of UNICEF and the Turner Art Foundation.