Yurii Syvyryn is a Ukrainian artist, curator, and educator, born in 1983 in Kyiv, where he currently lives and works. In 2007, he graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture with a degree in Painting, and from 2007 to 2010, he pursued postgraduate studies at NAFAA. Since 2007, he has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

In his practice, he works at the intersection of painting, media art, and installation. He combines his professional activity with teaching and curatorial practice. Over the years, he has taught at the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, the Creative Development Center “Inspiration,” and at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, where he currently works as a lecturer in the departments of painting, composition, scenography, and multimedia.
The main themes of his art are contemporary consciousness, collective memory, the information environment, social mechanisms, media reality, and the interaction between personal and public experience.
Yurii Syvyryn’s practice focuses on the exploration of how individuals perceive reality in conditions of constant information flow. His works function as visual models of contemporary experience, where personal experiences intertwine with collective narratives, and individual consciousness is shaped by social, political, and media processes.
Using painting, installation, and new media, the artist creates multilayered images that challenge conventional ways of seeing the world. His projects often address themes of memory, identity, the power of the image, and the transformation of reality in the era of digital communications.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 — “SIVIRIN,” Galerie Winkler, Zug, Switzerland.
2020 — “Black Mirror,” Odesa National Art Museum, Odesa, Ukraine.
2020 — “Enfant Terrible,” Lviv National Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine.
2020 — “Black Mirror,” Bereznitsky Art Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019 — “Fun of the Mind,” Art Asters, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019 — “Whalers,” Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019 — “The Great Other,” MASLO Art Center, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine.
2018 — “Price of Everything,” National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2018 — “Dark Ages,” Bereznitsky Art Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2017 — “Great Other,” LB&S Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2017 — “Theory of Everything,” Odesa Museum of Contemporary Art, Odesa, Ukraine.
2016 — “Theory of Everything,” Chocolate House, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016 — “Big Other,” GogolFest, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016 — “Night Tales,” Bereznitsky Art Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2015 — “Motives and Motivations,” Bereznitsky Art Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 — “The Little Prince,” ZAG Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine.
2024 — “Endurance Formula,” Institute of Contemporary Art Problems of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 — “Eye of the Storm” (with Vitalii Protosenia), Serpen Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2023 — “Art on the Battlefield,” Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria.
2022 — “Ukraine. Under a Different Sky,” Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland.
2022 — “Ukrainian Phoenix,” Arte in Nuvola, Rome, Italy.
2022 — “Iron Skies,” National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019 — “Media Dependence. Ukrainian Version,” National Center “Ukrainian House,” Kyiv, Ukraine.
2015 — “Object No. 1,” Bereznitsky Art Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine

Collections

Yurii Syvyryn’s works are held in private and museum collections in Ukraine, European countries, and the United States.