PUBLIC COMMISSIONS AND PROJECTS:

Feb 2006 150th Anniversary of the National Portrait Gallery, Gallery's Anniversary Gala, Mystery Portrait Postcards, National Portrait Gallery, London

Sept 2005 Marina Rosenfeld's Emotional Orchestra; Tate Modern, London

Aug 2005 'Visions of the Studio, or "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters"'; Production assistant to Olivia Plender, South London Gallery, London

Jan 2004 'Westernization Completed'; collaboration with artist AGF, Berlin, London, San Francisco

Aug 2003 Mural design and painting: Church of The Holy Shroud on Podil: 18th century Restored church by Grigorovich Barsky, listed example of Ukrainian Baroque architecture in the historic part of Kiev, Ukraine

Apr 2003 Portrait of Charles Rufus Morey; author of the first Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, USA

Jul 2002 Co-director/Designer for mural in the Church of The Holy Shroud on Podil, Kiev, Ukraine

AWARDS/PRIZES/FESTIVALS:

2006 First Prize - Welsh Portrait Award: Bodelwyddan Castle, Denbighshire, then touring exhibition at: Williamson Museum and Art Gallery, Birkenhead; National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth; St. David's Hall, Cardiff

2004, 2003, 2001 and 1999 Finalist in BP Portrait Awards, National Portrait Gallery, London, and then in major national museums around the UK

Jul 2003 BP Travel Award winner, BP Portrait Award, Travel Award exhibition tour: Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen

Jul 1998 'Nono Festival Europeo Arte Viva': International Art Festival, Senigallia, Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Dec 2002 Private Gallery, Rivington Street, London, UK

Jan 2002 The Gallery, Cork Street, London, UK

JOINT EXHIBITIONS:

Jul - Aug 2006 'In Beeld. Het Figuratieve Reveil' Vinkemkerk, Beauvoorde, Belgium; Hotel de Ville, Hondschoote, France. With artists: Paula Rego, Sam Dillemans, Marcelle Hanselaar, Johanes Phokela, and others

Dec 2005 Guest Exhibitor of The Russian Art Society, Russian Consulate, London

Sept 2005 'Contemporary Classics': Da Queeste Kunstkamers, Belgium

Sept 2005 Group Show, A Gallery, London

May 2005 Group Show, The Foundry, London

Feb 2004 Group show, Arnadean Gallery, Cork Street, London

Dec 2004 'The Rape of Europe': Luke & A Gallery; curated by Megakles Rogacos (Research Assistant to Edward Lucy Smith's Art of Tomorrow), Mayfair, London.

Jan 2000 'Hunting Art Prize', Royal College of Art, London

Oct 1999 Group Show, The Gallery, Cambridge

Jun 1999 Stephen Walton Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridgeshire

Apr 1999 'Bankside Browser', Tate Modern off-site project, London

Nov 1998 'Rubel Art', Alchemy Gallery, London

Dec 1997 'Wheel of Fortune' (with Seamus McKinley), Alchemy Gallery, London

Nov 1996 Private exhibition, The Wharf, London

Oct 1996 Canadian-Ukranian Art Foundation Museum, Toronto, Canada

Dec 1995 'Light at the end of the Tunnel' (with Inna Demidova), St. Petersburg, Russia

Oct 1995 'Summer Exhibition', Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia

1992, 1993 Rathaus Gallery, Kelkheim, Germany

TALKS/PRESENTATIONS

Jun 2004 National Portrait Gallery, Ondaatje Wing Theatre: presentation and discussion of work done as part of the BP Travel Award

OTHER COLLECTIONS:

Works held in public collections in CUAF Museum, Toronto, Canada; Commune de Senigallia Museum, Italy; Princeton University, USA; Collection of the Trustee of the Art Museum of Maryland, USA

Works held in private collections in England, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Russia, Ukraine and USA

EDUCATION:

1996-98 BA Fine Art (Painting), Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London

1993-96 Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia

1988-92 Secondary Art School of Saint Petersburg Academy of Fine Art, Russia

1986-88 N8 Evening Art School, Saint Petersburg, Russia

PUBLICATIONS

Welsh Portrait Award 2006 Catalogue

BP Portrait Award 2004 Catalogue; with introductory essay by Blake Morrison

BP Portrait Award 2003 Catalogue; with introductory essay by A.S. Byatt

SELECTED ARTICLES

Dec 2006 'Pulse' magazine, "Russian Art in the Russian Consulate"

Aug 2006 'Russian UK' magazine, "An epoch in portraits"

Jul 2005 'Veduta', "Contemporary Classics" (Belgium)

Dec 2004 'The Times', "The Rape of Europe", John Russell Taylor

Nov 2004 "Sourcing the Index: Iconography and its Debt to Photography" Colum Hourihane, Princeton University (USA)

Feb 2004 'Silske Jittia', "Free Artist" (Ukraine)

Jan 2004 'Musejnij Provulok: The Ukrainian State Art Museum Magazine', "Pie in the Sky, Social Surrealism of Ulyana Gumeniuk" (Ukraine)

Jan 2004 'Magazin für elektronische Lebensaspekte', "AGF: Westernization Completed". Ron Schepper

Dec 2002 'Ukrajinska Dumka', "Show of Ukrainian culture in London" (Ukraine)

Sept 2002 'Ukrajinske Slovo', "Predchuttia Svogo Ja" (Ukraine)

June 2002 'Ukrajinska Kultura', "Exhibition of Ulyana Gumeniuk in London." V. Luciv (Ukraine)

May 2002 'Prospect', "Possession" Angela Lambert

Spring 2002 'Obrazotvorche Mistectvo' (magazine of Ukraine's State Art Union.', "Britain London" Olga Denisenko (Ukraine)

April 2002 'Shliah Peremogi', "Ulyana Gumeniuk" (Ukraine)

Mar 2002 'Ukrajinska Dumka', "Art Exhibition of Ulyana Gumeniuk in London" V. Luciv (Ukraine)

Jan 2002 'Ukraine's Thought (London Edition)', "Ukrainian Art in London" V. Luciv

Jul 2001 'Evening Standard', "Gallery pot-shots leave blood on the canvas" Brian Sewell

Dec 2000 'East Anglia Daily Times', "Dreamy quality to bold images" Helen Clarke

Artist Statement:

Ulyana’s work investigates the tension between the private, inner world and experiences of the individual, and the wider, social and cultural world of which that individual is a part. This is approached through a meshing of apparently highly traditional figurative painting with radically contemporary elements.

Ulyana works using traditional oil painting techniques learnt in part through copying the works of artists who have influenced her, among them Rubens, Velasquez, Duyster; but these techniques are filtered by a contemporary sensibility, manifest, for example, in a subtle undercutting of conventions of perspective, or in a modernist approach to working with colour which clashes productively with the force of traditional elements. A further important aspect of Ulyana’s work is use of mathematical formulae which have come to exist as the expressions of varied cosmologies, to determine structural elements of her compositions.