Kateryna Kostelna ​

Kateryna  is a Ukrainian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver. Trained in artistic textiles and book graphics in Lviv and Gdańsk, she combines textile printing, drawing, photography and found objects to explore anxiety, hierarchy and destruction.

 

Her work has been shown at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre (Kingston) and This Gallery (Vancouver), and in Poland, Denmark, Spain and Ukraine. She has been featured in Sad Magazine and Curatory, and teaches art in community programs across Metro Vancouver.

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Education​

2020–2023 — BA, Graphic Arts (Book Design & Illustration), Ukrainian Academy of Printing, Lviv, Ukraine

2022–2023 — Exchange Program, Graphic Design, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

2017–2020 — Diploma, Artistic Textiles, Lviv College of Decorative and Applied Arts, Lviv, Ukraine

 

​​​​Selected Exhibitions

2026 — Mending Ways, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, ON, Canada
2026 — Where Memories Live, This Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2023 — A Gardener’s Dream, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
2022 — Exhibition organized by Ksi Prostir, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022 — Art of Resistance, OBJECTS Art Award, Spain
2021 — Organized by My Art platform, 8 Prichal, Mykolaiv, Ukraine

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Residencies

2021 — Nazar Voitovich Art Residency, Ternopil, Ukraine

 

Publication & Press

2026 — Curatory, Volume 14
2025 —  Forbes “10 Visionary Women Preserving and Shaping Ukrainian Art and Culture.”

2025 — Harowitz, Sara. “On Art, Personal Feelings, and Her Own Story”​

interview with Kateryna Kostelna

2025 — Sad Magazine, Issue 39: TASTE. Vancouver, BC

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Professional Development 
2023 — Workshop with sculptor Katarzyna Józefowicz, [organizer], Gdańsk, Poland
2022 — Workshop with artist Anna Zvyahintseva, curated by Natalia Revko, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland