Sana Shahmuradova Tanska b. 1996

Sana Shahmuradova Tanska was born in 1996 in Odesa, Ukraine. A significant part of her childhood was spent in the countryside in the Podillia region of Ukraine. In 2010, she graduated from ballet school, and in 2013, her family immigrated to Toronto, Canada, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from York University in 2020. She decided to relocate to Kyiv in 2020, where she continues to work on oil paintings and graphics on a variety of surfaces. Her most recent works highlight atrocities and violations against nature and people.

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).