Digital Archive Grows: Taras Haida Joins UFDA with Five Works

The Ukrainian Fund of Digitized Art (UFDA) continues its mission to preserve the country’s creative legacy, ensuring that contemporary voices are protected alongside the classics. We are excited to announce that artist Taras Haida is the latest addition to our online archive, joining the platform with five featured works.

Taras Haida was born in 1993 in the village of Kariv, Lviv region, Ukraine. He currently lives and works between Kyiv and Lviv. Working mainly with oil painting and digital collage, he has participated in many exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. His solo projects include "Mimicry" (2019), "Essence" (2020), and "Frequency" (2021). In 2021, one of his works entered the collection of the National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery".

Haida is interested in the subconscious and how inner perception shapes what we see and feel. Working intuitively, he transforms emotional states and impressions into expressive compositions. Many of his works appear fragmented, suspended, or shifted in space, much like dream logic or uncontrolled mental images.

He has shown his works internationally, including exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Jerusalem, Taipei, Warsaw, and Budapest. His art has also appeared at major art fairs such as Art Market Budapest and (Un)Fair Milano.

Haida often paints scenes with figures, animals, or objects seen through distortion or instability. His use of glitch, deformation, and fragmentation makes the images look as if they are unfolding in real time, caught between forming and falling apart. Soft tonal shifts and smooth contours bring a sense of calm, even when the subject feels uncertain.

His paintings can be viewed as reflections on how the mind processes experience — how thoughts separate, transform, and build new internal landscapes.

UFDA has digitized five of Haida's works: "Bouquet", "Vacuum", "The Strayed", "Dream Inside Out" (all — 2024), and "Behind the Scenes" (2025).