Sana Shahmuradova Tanska b. 1996

Sana Shahmuradova Tanska (b. 1996, Odesa, Ukraine) spent much of her childhood in rural Podillia, among rivers and forests. In 2014, she immigrated to Toronto, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from York University. Having worked in graphics for a long time, she later decided to turn to painting. In 2020, she finally decided to move to the city that has inspired her all this time - Kyiv. She works with graphics and painting. As an artist, she searches for the little-explored roots of her origins through collective and personal archetypes.

Her works are in public collections including the Krupa Art Foundation (Wroclaw, Poland), SAF – Samdani Art Foundation (Dhaka, Bangladesh), and Marquez Art Projects (Miami, USA). Sana’s works have been shown in several solo and group exhibitions, including the 24th Biennale of Sydney, Ten Thousands Suns (2024, Gadigal Land, Australia), Catching Circles – Then They Match Again, Gunia Nowik Gallery (2023, Warsaw, Poland), Further than Light or Language, Voloshyn Gallery (2023, Miami, FL, USA), and EVA International, Ireland’s Biennale (2023, Limerick, Ireland). Shahmuradova’s works have been covered and reviewed by Cultured Magazine, e-flux, Vogue Polska, Frieze, and The Guardian.

Sana has participated in residency programs at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, in partnership with EVA International 2023/Ireland’s Biennale (curated by Sebastian Cichocki, 2023, Dublin, Ireland), Asortymentna Kimnata, Where the Story Was Interrupted (curated by Dmytro Chepurnyi and Anton Usanov, 2022-23, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), and Casa Balandra (2023, Portol, Balearic Islands).