Zhanna Kadyrova

(b. 1981, Ukraine)

Born 1981 in Brovary in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from Taras Shevchenko State Art School and received the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award, the Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Award for Public Art, the Grand Prix of the Kyiv Sculpture Project (all 2012) as well as a PinchukArtCentre Special Prize (2011) and Main Prize Winner (2013). Her works have been extensively exhibited worldwide, recently at the 55th Venice Biennale, the Moscow Biennale and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (all 2013). Kadyrova's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at National Art Museum of Ukraine, Museum of Modern Art in Poland (both in 2012), PinchukArtCentre (2012, 2013) in Ukraine.