Artist Info
Maria Proshkovska
Conceptual and socially engaged artist, feminist. Work focuses on trauma, memory, and gender social issues. I explore and exploit touches of dissapearance, invisibility, and repetitiveness working with performance, documentation and activism. Born in 1986 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Live and work in East Anglia, UK with my son due to the war in Ukraine.
Graduated from the Kyiv National University of Internal Affairs of Ukraine with a law degree (LLB). Studied at the School of Contemporary Art at the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems in Kyiv. Postgraduate MA Performance: Society student at UAL, Central Saint Martins College 2023-2025 (London, UK).
Laureate of the special prize of the contest for young artists МUHі2017, special prize of VOGUE UA magazine, and participant of American Arts Incubator in Ukraine. Works are held in the collection of MAMbo (Bologna, Italy), Shcherbenko Art Center (Kyiv, Ukraine), and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
Fellow of Woman in Conflict 1325 Fellowship Programme 2022 (Scotland, UK). www.proshkovska.com
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