Bohdana Zaiats

Bohdana Zaiats (b. 2002, Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian artist and a student of art at AVU (Academy of Fine Arts in Prague). She publishes her drawings and comics preferably in the online environment under the identity @my_pet_spider. Using short juxtapositions of drawings and texts, she reflects on moments from her personal life that inspire her poetic and political thinking. Bohdana Zaiats currently focuses her research on the themes of future commemoration of the dead, which form memory can take as well as her grieving of her personal loss. Lives between Kyiv and Prague.

EDUCATION

2029    The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (CZ)

2023    Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU), Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Ethics and Aesthetics, Kyiv (UA)

2022    Kyiv Academy of Media Art (UA)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024    Наші роки, наші слова, наші втрати, наші пошуки, наші ми / Our Years, Our Words, Our Losses, Our Searches, Our Us Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv (UA)

2023    No Title, Zine Vitrine, DobraVaga Gallery, Ljubljana (SL)

2023    Ти як, глядачу?” / "How are you? UEAF, National Center "Ukrainian House", Kyiv (UA)

2023    Pokoje Exhibition of Young Art Pokoje, Prague, Czech Republic (CZ)

Date of residency: 10.09. – 31.10. 2024