Born in Siverskodonetsk (Luhansk region, Ukraine) in 1999, Karina Synytsia currently lives and works in Kyiv. From 2015 to 2019, she studied at the Department of Fine Arts at Kharkiv Art College, specializing in painting. In 2023, she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (NAFAA) with a degree in monumental and easel painting.
Karina Synytsia is a visual artist working primarily with painting and monumental techniques, particularly fresco and wall painting. Her practice focuses on landscapes, architecture, and the political and social traces embedded within these spaces. Deeply shaped by questions of war, her work explores how conflict transforms both personal and collective geography. Synytsia often approaches war and occupation through indirect imagery rooted in personal and collective narratives. She draws from the city’s landscapes, vernacular objects, and the relationships between people and nature. Walking is a constant method within her research-based practice, while architecture frequently appears as a silent witness to political events. Through painting, she investigates how landscapes carry memory and how nature persists within systems of destruction, violence, and transformation.
Exhibition “Welcome to Paradise”, 2025, personal exhibition in Artsvit Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine. Photo: Olya Vasylets.
She has participated in group exhibitions, including The Woman Question. 1550–2025 at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (Poland). In 2025, she presented the solo exhibition Welcome to Paradise at Artsvit Gallery (Dnipro, Ukraine). Her works are also featured in the second edition of the Ukrainian section of the Secondary Archive, as well as in the archival projects The Sky Is Open. Voices From Ukraine and Ukraine Ablaze (Mala Gallery, Mystetskyi Arsenal).
“Closing, 2025, acrylic on canvas” by Karina Synytsia
Residence(s):
- Ria Keburia Foundation, Georgia (2026)
