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Dima Krasnyi is a Ukrainian artist, who works with graphics, lithography, ceramics, and creates collages and installations using items found at flea markets.

Summary of Dima Krasnyi

Krasnyi’s art has been featured in numerous group exhibitions. Additionally, the artist has presented personal projects in Ukraine and internationally. His artistic practice explores themes of collective memory, rituals, and the concept of magical reality.

Biography of Dima Krasnyi

The artist was born in 1985 in Makariv, Kyiv region. A graduate of the National Transport University in Kyiv, he later pursued his passion for art in the graphics studio at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. 

Since 2018, he has been exploring the theme of found objects and photo printing. In 2019, during his participation in the Gaude Polonia scholarship program, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań where he developed an interest in ceramics and objects.

Later, he began working with photography and collage. His research focuses on combining photography, ceramics, and objects.

Krasnyi’s paintings and other works are part of private collections in Ukraine, France, the United States, and Israel.

Dima Krasnyi’s Famous Paintings: Exploring the Bold Vision

He works with a diverse range of mediums, including easel graphics, photography, ceramics, installations, and collages, blending traditional techniques with contemporary approaches. 

For example, Dima Krasnyi’s painting “Untitled” (2018) was created using mixed techniques. Other notable works include pieces from the “Everything Should Be in Its Place” series (2018) created by blind embossing. These works are available for sale at auction on the UFDA website.

The artwork of Dima Krasnyi also includes a series of graphic works “The Diary of War.” 

The artist began producing this series after the outbreak of russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, with the aim of documenting the events as they unfolded.

In his collages, the artist disrupts the ordinary moments of the past without relying on Photoshop. Using a knife blade, he removes sections from found family photos and replaces them with fragments from other images. He also paints over faces or incorporates elements of ritual and mysticism into group photographs. Dima Krasnyi’s paintings for sale can be found on numerous platforms and websites.  

Dima Krasnyi’s Art Style

In his works, the artist addresses the themes of rituals, magical consciousness, and everyday mysticism. At the same time, an important motif in Krasnyi's art practice is memory, its distortion and transformation – this applies to both individual and collective memory. Krasnyi's works engage with these themes in various forms.

Since 2019, the artist has frequented flea markets in Poland and Ukraine. Driven by his personal aesthetic taste, he has collected hundreds of vintage family photographs and ceramics, which eventually became key materials for his artwork and exhibitions.