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Karina Synytsia is a contemporary Ukrainian artist who works with painting, collage, and animation.

Summary of Karina Synytsia

The artwork of Karina Synytsia is based on the reflection of human emotions, particularly loneliness and alienation. In her works, the artist recreates these states by placing them into constructed images made up of fragments of her own memories and the emptiness of semi-destroyed architectural phantoms.

Biography of Karina Synytsia

The artist was born in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, in 1999. She studied painting at the Department of Fine Arts at Kharkiv Art College (2015-2019). Later, in 2024, Synytsia graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture with a degree in monumental and easel painting.

Her works have been featured in numerous exhibitions and projects, including the  ART COMPENSA International Art Fair auction in Vilnius (2022), the online exhibition "Resistance" in the Baroque Gallery App in Kyiv (2022), "Another Day" by ArtCompensa and KUFA, Klaipeda (2022), and many more.

Currently, the artist lives and works in Kyiv. 

Karina Synytsia’s Famous Paintings: A Journey Through Her Works

Karina Synytsia's art focuses on observing people and the space around them. As she told Secondary Archive, she explores the relationship between the universal and the individual, though the personal narrative plays a central role in her practice.

Among Synytsia’s original paintings are “Sky. "Closed Will Throw Off Its Curtain" Series” (2024), “Park Avenue” (2024), “Troubles with Communication” (2022), and “The Kyiv Fortress” (2021). Other notable works include “There Will Be No Palm Trees in Paradise” (2022), “The Black Soil” (2021), “The Fun” (2021), “The Giraffe Wanders Gracefully” (2020) and many more. Karina Synytsia's paintings for sale are available on the UFDA website.  

Karina Synytsia's Art Style

Before the full-scale invasion, the artist was passionate about architecture and photography, which influenced her main focus in painting – the preservation of architectural heritage. In an interview with Tribun, she noted that after the invasion began, her paintings started to tell stories about social issues, but still through landscapes and urban spaces.

In her works, the artist depicts architectural structures, as well as landscapes, where she emphasizes the emptiness, hollowness and decay of these spaces. However, architectural elements in the works of the author appear as decorations of the urban space. Because the presentation of human feelings, emotional states and social aspects of life occupies a thematically and figuratively significant place in the center of her works.