Hanna Shumska (Ганна Шумська)
Poland/Ukraine
Visual artist and researcher (PhD).
Lecturer at the Department of Painting, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.
Lives and works in Tricity, Poland.

EDUCATION

2021 – 2024 PhD in Art, Doctoral School of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland
2018 – 2020 University of Arts in Poznań (Department of Painting and Drawing), Poland
2014 – 2015 Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (program Erasmus+), Gdańsk, Poland
2011 – 2017 Lviv National Academy of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine
2004 – 2011 Taras Shevchenko State Art School in Kyiv, Ukraine

AWARDS AND SPECIAL PRIZES

2025 – Award for Young Creators of Culture of the City of Gdańsk in 2025
2023 – 14th Geppert Competition 2023, BWA Gallery, Wrocław, 1th prize
2023 – 7th Gdańsk Biennale of Art, GGM, finalist
2022 – 40th edition of the Maria Dokowicz Competition, Grand Prix,
Award of the Mayor of Poznań, UAP Gold Distinction
2021 – The best diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts 2020, ASP in Gdańsk, Award of the Mayor of Gdańsk
2021 – 45th Painting Biennale – Bielsko Autumn, Honorary Mention from the Art Magazine „Format”
2020 – Grand Prix competition of the Franciszka Eibisch Foundation, finalist

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 – „Between the (Un)imaginable and the Real”, LAZNIA 1 Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland
2025 – „Reconfigurations”, Halo Kultura, Gdynia, Poland
2024 – „Hidden Stories”, Halo Kultura, Gdynia, Poland
2023 – „Guernica 1937 – Ukraine 2022”, Galeria w Ruchu, Gdańsk, Poland
2022 – „A Temporary Map of Temporary Places”, m² Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2021 – „In-between”, Galeria Prześwit, Warsaw, Poland
2020 – „A territory of a conflict”, Ukrainian House in Warsaw, Poland
2020 – „A Temporary Map of Temporary Places”, Gallery Szewska, Poznań, Poland
2019 – „Line of displacement”, 5 PR, Poznań, Poland
2015 – „Self-presentation”, Non-stop Iron Group, Non-Stop Media Festiwal, Gdynia, Poland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2025 – „Scherben der Realitat. Berlin-Dreistadt”, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Germany
2025 – „Fragments of Reality. Berlin – Tricity”, PGS, Sopot, Poland
2025 – „Short film and digital Works from Ukraine”, East Window, Boulder, Colorado, USA
2024 – „100 Years in Labirynt – Open Space”, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
2024 – „Rising. Learning from the Past Today for Tomorrow”, The City Culture Institute – LAZNIA 1 Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland
2023 – „War(n)”, WL4, Gdańsk, Poland
2023 – „(Un)told”, Aula Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland
2023 – 14th Geppert Competition in Wrocław, BWA Gallery Wrocław, Poland
2023 – „I want to tell you something”, ZiMMT, Leipzig, Germany
2023 – „PARA BELLUM. Get ready for the war!”, WL4, Gdańsk, Poland
2023 – 7th Gdańsk Biennale of Art, Gdańsk City Gallery, Poland
2022 – „Conversations. A great journey across many borders, languages and cultures”, Poznań, Poland
2022 – „The State of Emergency”, State Art Gallery, Sopot, Poland
2022 – 40th Edition of the Maria Dokowicz Competition for the Best Diploma Work of the year 2020, Stara Papiernia UAP, Poznań, Poland
2022 – „Great Patriotic”, Galeria BWA , Bydgoszcz, Poland
2022 – „Color and senses”, Galeria Sztuki BWA, Olsztyn, Poland
2021 – 45th Painting Biennale – Bielsko Autumn, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biała, Poland
2021 – The best diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts 2020, ASP in Gdańsk, Poland
2021-2023 – „What next?”, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland
2021 – „New Feminity”, Ukrainian House in Warsaw, Poland
2020 – International Drawing Triennale, ASP in Katowice, Poland
2020 – „Drawing. International Drawing Competition”, Galeria Wozownia, Toruń, Poland
2019 – „Alchemy of motivation”, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 – „Out There, Somewhere Beside. Ukrainian Video Art 2015–2019”, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
2019 – II Biennale of Young Contemporary Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2019 – „Input/ Output”, CuratorsLAB, Poznań, Poland
2018 – „Videonews”, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
2018 – Opening of the Korsak`s Museum of Ukrainian Contemporary Art, Lutsk, Ukraine
2018 – „Emergent Tributaries”, IZONE, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 – 3rd International Painting Competition of the Three Bridges Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
2017 – „How is it?”, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
2017 – „Mechanism of evolution”, MODERN ART RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 – „Tetramatyka”, Lviv, Ukraine
2017 – „Imaginary identities. To have or be”, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2017 – „ROOTS”, Hinterhof, Sous-Terrain, Berlin, Germany
2016 – group exhibition „Circle of communication”, Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2016 – „Giartino -Ogród sztuki/ Ukryte”, WOAK, Toruń, Poland
2016 – „A4 Ballpoint”, Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 – art project „The Cell/The Camera” at the Museum of National Remembrance „Prison on Łącki Street”, Lviv, Ukraine

RESIDENCIES / SCHOLARSHIPS

2023-2025 – Scholarship of Ewa Kuryluk
2023 – Art Exchange Gdańsk – Strasburg, organized by CSW ŁAŹNIA, City of Gdańsk and City of Strasbourg, Apollonia – European Art Exchanges (Strasbourg, France)
2021 – The Gaude Polonia Scholarship Programme for Young Foreign Cultural Professionals, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
2020 – TWO ROOTS, online residency, Gedankendach (Germany – Ukraine)
2018 – „American Art Incubator”, initiated by the American Office of Education and Culture and ZERO1, IZOLACIA (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2018 – „The Foundation”, Foundation of the Polish Union (Klementowice, Poland)
2017 – „Imaginary identities. To have or be”, YermilovCentre (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
2016 – „Circle of communication” on forum „Culture on the border of Galicia Cult”, YermilovCentre (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

CONTACTS
Hanna Shumska
Gdańsk- Gdynia, Poland / Kyiv, Ukraine
E-mail:
hanyashumska@gmail.com