Iryna Manukovska is a Ukrainian-born multidisciplinary artist born in 1984 with MS in Applied Analysis and Mathematics. Combining both creative background and a system approach, she explores relationships between physical phenomena, surrounding nature, and the human soul and mind. Making an art career after a business in marketing and PR allowed Iryna to embed diverse backgrounds into an art form of abstract art. Each painting is a system of visual hints which tells a story of cultural shits, equality, and history.
In 2021 Iryna co-founded a Paphos Women Artists (PWA) community to promote arts created by women in Cyprus and abroad. Since that, Paphos Women Artists Union has made two group exhibitions, which gained huge success in Cyprus, followed by interviews and media coverage. The last exhibition, "Boundaries," was aimed at discovering, artistically, how immigration changes us. Embedding new cultures makes us more diverse or forces us to lose our roots. Traditions of our homeland are the only way to do, or it's allowed to create our own rituals.
In 2022 Iryna participated a UNESCO art residency, "Art Camp Malta 2022," representing Ukraine along with participants from 18 countries from Europe, the Middle East, and South America.
Iryna is the author of the Newborns of Ukrainian War project dedicated to babies born in Ukraine since the Russian invasion started.
For the last 10 years Iryna works as an essayist and a painter. In her visual artwork recreates stories of fight with change demons in an abstract form via color and shapes. The ideas behind the paintings are courage to dare, change, act, and live your own life. All Iryna’s artworks are about connection with the inner insecurities - sincerity, innocence, engagement, and self-reliance.
Regularly exhibited in group and solo shows in Paphos and Limassol at Cyprus, Kyiv at Ukraine.
Manukovska’s works are held in governmental, private, and corporate collections in Ukraine, Cyprus, Spain, and Malta.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2023 – “Mirror Effect”, Limassol, Cyprus
2022 – “Freedom”, Obiymi, Larnaca, Cyprus
2022 – “Hope”, Technopolis 20, Paphos, Cyprus
2014 – “Beginning”,Little Opera Gallery. Kyiv, Ukraine.
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2022 – “Boundaries: immigration”, Exhibit8, Limassol, Cyprus
2022 – Dimensions of women”, W&W Gallery. Paphos, Cyprus
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 – Technopolis, Paphos, Cyprus
2023 – “Re:Mix”, Palia Ilectriki, Paphos, Cyprus
2023 – “ART WEEK”, Aphrodite Amathusia Cultural Center, Limassol, Cyprus
2023 – “EMOTIONSCAPES”, Exhibit 8, Limassol, Cyprus
2022 – “UNESCO Colors of peace”, National Museum of Archeology, Valletta, Malta
2022 – “Boundaries: internal & external impact of immigration”, Exhibit8, Limassols, Cyprus
2022 – “Creation in flux: Step out”, Mama Contempo, Paphos, Cyprus
2022 – “Dimensions of women”, Wind & Wave Gallery. Paphos, Cyprus
2021 – 2022 – “All around”, Gorilla Gallery, Paphos, Cyprus
2021 – “Emerging Paphos”, En plo Gallery. Petrideio Foundation. Paphos, Cyprus
2021 – “The soul”, Art Space 55. Limassol, Cyprus
2021 – “Blue”, Exhibit 8,. Limassol, Cyprus
2020 – “Colors”, Art Space 55. Limassol, Cyprus
2020 – “Emotions”, Exhibit 8. Limassol, Cyprus
2015 - 2017 – “Emerging Ukraine”, Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine exhibitions. Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 – “What’s next”, D12 gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
EDUCATION
2013 – Central Saint Martins at University of Arts London (Summer School)
2011 - 2013 – Galina Popinova Art School, Kyiv, Ukraine
2001 - 2006 – Igor Sikorsky Polytechnical Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
PROJECTS
2022 – Newborns of Ukrainian war, Cyprus - Ukraine
2022 – “INVICTUS,” Chernihiv, Ukraine
2022 – “Seeds of Culture,” UNESCO Malta
PUBLICATIONS
2023 – Interview, Ukrcy news, Ukraine
2022 – Philnews, Cyprus
2022 – Kathimerini, Cyprus
2022 Lemesos TV, Cyprus
2022 – Limassol Today, Cyprus
2022 – KaloMina, Greece
2022 – CyprusMail, Cyprus
2022 – Forbes, USA
2020 – Ενάλιος Enalios, Cyprus
MENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL WORK
2022-2023 – “Flow state” workshops for Ukrainian refugees in Cyprus
RESIDENCIES
2022 – UNESCO Art camp, Malta
CONTRIBUTION TO ART ECOSYSTEM
2024 – Ksoporti Art Weekend, Paphos, Cyprus
2022 – Paphos Art talk, Paphos, Cyprus