BIOGRAPHY
Mila Didenko was born in Poltava in 1971 in the central-eastern part of Ukraine in a family of artists and a military man. Such a duality of influences gave Didenko an unusual, but originally intriguing pictorial language that tells about the nuances of her life in Ukraine.
Mila began drawing extensively from an early age, exposed to many a mixture of sights, sounds, and culture—she spent several of her formative years in Damascus, Syria, where her father was an officer. The warm bright sky left a strong impression on the creative expression of Mila, who is concerned with balance, light and warmth in relation to oneself and between people.
After returning to Ukraine, she attended the Poltava Art School. The harsh realities of the collapse of the Soviet Union led her to study finance and make a career in a distribution company. However, she never betrayed her admiration; The pandemic allowed her to revive her true artistic voice.
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MODERN UKRAINIAN ARTIST
Was born in 1971. Lives and works in Poltava, Ukraine
EDUCATION
1998 University of Economics and Law / Finance and Banking, Ukraine
1988 Art School, Poltava, USSR
EXHIBITION ACTIVITIES
2023 Group Online Exhibition “MAGIX 2023” 15/11/23 -15/01/24, Exhibizone, Canada
2023 Group Biafarin Online Exhibition “Anreal” 10/08/23 -10/10/23, Gallerium, Toronto, Canada
2023 Group online exhibition and publication “Shapes and colors” 01/03/23- 31/03/23, Gallerium, Toronto, Canada
2023 Published in March 2023 issue of Artistonish magazine. “Discover the Artist March 2023”, Canada
2022 Festival of Ukrainian short films & art in Hollywood. UkrainianFilmFest with the support of the Ministry of Digital Ukraine and EnoughTeaFoundation, Kyiv London Hollywood
21/11/22- 27/11/22
2021 Exhibition “Gravity” Timax Art Auction House and UAFRA, 22/02-10/03 London, United Kingdom
2021 Certificate of artistic merit museum «La Pinacothèque» Luxembourg Art Prize
STATEMENT
The war in Ukraine unleashed a wave of private mental reflections, interwoven with uncompromising patriotism, which is also manifested in the “Unconquered Land” series. Currently, Mila explores the theme of the creative potential of the female imagination, bright thoughts in unity with words in the series “Planters and seeds”.
The most favorite materials for work are oil and acrylic paints on canvas whis charcoal, pensel, which allows you to experiment with techniques. The mixture she uses combines elements of realism with abstract images. In painting, the realistic coexists with the symbolic.
