About Me
Our Story
Was born at 1984
Asya Kozina is a creative focused on exploring the possibilities of modern paper sculpture. Her interest as a professional artist lies in the field of cultural research, archiving and plastic expression of various historical, traditional and artistic representations. Unique and intricate designs require trying on, insisting on telling your story through limited edition photographs and prints.
The universal white paper is used not only as a tool, but also as a concept to help symbolize the historical process. The images of the Mongolian, African, Scythian, Venetian, Baroque, Modern cultures are easily recognizable and at the same time metaphorical. A paraphrase of the modern understanding of history as a set of events, cleared of the signs of epochs, but often filled with modern emotions and value judgments. Since then, the artist has left a blank paper surface to be eaten by the viewer’s perception.
The plain white sheet works have become the artist’s signature mark. Asya believe that white paper allows for them to accent form and conceal secondary details. All of their pieces are crafted by hand, each unique in its own right, never to be replicated. This individuality forms an opposition to multiplying media images created with the help of digital tools, a representation of modern visual culture. At first glance, one may suspect some of Kozin’s works to be graphically designed through digital means. Happily enough, these projects have been left unaltered by present-day technology, a true representation of craftsmanship.
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| 1984, May 5 | — | born in the Dnepropetrovskaya Oblast, Ukraine |
| 1999 | — | graduated from the Cherkassky Junior Art School |
| 2009 | — | Zavtra.UA scholarship recipient from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Ukraine |
| 2010 | — | graduated from the Khmelnitsy Cherkassky National University with a masters from the Visual and Decorative-Applied Art Faculty |
| 2010 | — | winner of the Ukrainian Art Week international competition |
| 2011 | — | lives and works in St. Petersburg |
| 2020 | — | live and work in Cherkassy, Ukraine |
Selected personal and group exhibitions
| 2016 — 2022 | — | commercial artworks for different companies in Italy, Norway, Germany, France, Russia and other |
| 2022 | — | two artworks were selected for Homo Faber exhibition in Venice, the artworks were not sent due to the war. Italy |
| 2020 | — | participant of the international exhibition «Marie Antuanet metomarphoses d’une image». Conciergerie, Paris, France |
| 2019 | — | participant of the international exhibition «innovative costume of the XXI century: the next generation». State Historical Museum, Moskow, Russia |
| 2019 | — | work for Dolce&Gabbana, Alta Moda, Italy |
| 2019 | — | order for Doberlug Museum, Germany |
| 2015 | — | participant in the archeo-art-project “Return to Yakh”, Surgut Art Musuem |
| 2014 | — | Kuklandia. Summer group exhibition, Surgut Art Museum |
| 2013 | — | Tatyana Kalinina Dolls’ House art gallery, Petrozavodsk |
| 2013 | — | The III BUMPROM International Specialized Paper Art Exhibition, Moscow |
| 2013 | — | Time of the Dolls International Doll and Teddy Bear Exhibition, St. Petersburg |
| 2009 | — | participant in the Kingdom of Dolls and Evolution of New Year/Christmas Tree Decorations exhibitions, State Toy Museum, Kiev |
| 2009 | — | a series of exhibitions in the towns of Cherkassy and Rovno |
| 2008 | — | an exhibition within the framework of the II International Pottery Festival, Oposhna |
| 2007 | — | «A Passion for White», the artist’s first personal exhibition, Cherkassy Works by the artist are held by: State Toy Museum (Kiev), Surgut Art Museum, Cherkassky Art Museum, Domodedovsky History-Art Museum |
Also:
| — | Author of the program of social and cultural adaptation in the Cherkasy region of internal displacement children during the russian military invasion of Ukraine in 2022 |
| — | Organiser of the «Your Talents, Cherkassy», Cherkassy, Ukraine |
| — | Founder of the Gloria private children’s arts studio, teacher |
| — | Founder of the online art school, works with children from different countries |
