Adriana Shportan
visual artist
Adriana Shportan is a Ukrainian visual artist originally from Pechorna village in the Ternopil region. Since the beginning of the war, she has been living and working in London. Her background in fashion design provided a strong educational foundation in visual practice, while her development as an artist has been largely self-directed.
EDUCATION
2020 - 2023
Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design(Speciality: Fashion designer; Bachhelor’s diploma)
2017 - 2020
Chernivtsi College of Technologies and Design(Speciality: Fashion designer; Junior Specialist diploma;)
COURSES AND WORKSHOPS
2023
Creative career compass 2.0 course by Art Academy navigator
Painting Summer short course at Slade School of Fine Art(London)
2022
Drawing course at Slade School of Fine Art(London)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
YPP Finalist Show(Riga, Art Academy of Latvia)
YPP Finalist Show(Estonia, Tallinn Art Hall)
2025
2024
2023
Riverside studios(London)
2022
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Artist statement
Her practice explores how emigration and displacement shape identity, memory, and the sense of belonging. Through symbolic imagery and photographic blur, she creates dreamlike spaces in which memory, longing, and imagined realities intertwine. Moving between presence and absence, her works trace the fragility of belonging and the complex emotional states that emerge when the past continues to shape the present.
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