Daria Most
I am interested in what remains.
I work in painting, graphic art, and papier-mâché. Each material has its own relationship with time, its own way of resisting or surrendering. I don't choose a medium to illustrate an idea — I choose it because it knows something I don't yet.
I begin without a plan. What appears on the surface is found, not composed. I show up, stay present, and let something pass through. Some works take months. Others happen in a single sitting, with no possibility of revision. Both feel like the same act — a kind of listening.
What I'm after is the moment before understanding. The sense that something is present before you can name it. Not meaning delivered, but meaning approached.
I make work because there are things I cannot reach through language. Getting close is enough.
Daria Most
Visual Artist
Born 1995, Poltava, Ukraine
Based in Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy
EDUCATION
2013–2018 — MA in Painting, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University.
2019–2023 — Postgraduate research in Art Studies, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University.
Research focus: hot enamel in contemporary art (late 20th – early 21st century).
AWARDS & HONORS
2026 — Selected as Featured Artist, Virtuoso Travel Week 2027, Las Vegas, USA (upcoming).
2019 — Scholarship of the President of Ukraine.
2018 — Presidential Grant for Talented Youth.
2017 — Passion to Perform Art Prize Finalist & Corporate Collection Acquisition by Yamana Gold, Toronto, Canada.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Since 2015 — National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
RESIDENCIES
2023 — II International Painting Plein Air Niegocin: Masurian Inspirations, October 3–15, Wilkasy, Poland (concluding with a group exhibition).
2022 — Artists at Risk (AR)–UNESCO Residency, International Center for the Arts (ICArts), July 1 – August 30, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 — Windows of Monte Castello, International Center for the Arts, Italy.
2018 — Genetic Memory, Art Gallery "Mytets," Kyiv, Ukraine.
2017 — ESC/WOSC-2017, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine (held in conjunction with the European Shogi Championship and World Open Shogi Championship).
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 — Transformations, international group exhibition, curated by Tetyana Shulyak, Kremenchuk City Art Gallery, Kremenchuk, Ukraine.
2025–2026 — X All-Ukrainian Triennial 'Painting-2025', House of Artists, Kyiv.
2025 — Read Between the Lines, Ninety-Seven Modern, Detroit, USA (online).
2024–2025 — Sguardi Plurali sull'Italia Plurale (second edition), itinerant group exhibition, CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (Turin), CSC Carbonia della Società Umanitaria (Carbonia), University of Bologna (Bologna), ARCI (Milan), Italy;
— 55 Years of the Kyiv Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2024 — Crimea is Ukraine, All-Ukrainian cultural and artistic project dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people, House of Artists, Kyiv;
— All-Ukrainian Cultural and Artistic Project Dedicated to the 210th Anniversary of Taras Shevchenko's Birth, House of Artists, Kyiv.
2023 — Our Time, Our Space, National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv.
2020–2021 — In the Land of Gray Pearls, I International Triennial within the ART NOVA project-competition, Kremenchuk.
2020 — IX All-Ukrainian Biennial 'Ukraine from Trypillia to the Present in the Imagery of Contemporary Artists', House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019–2020 — Wandering Philosophy, I International Triennial dedicated to Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Kremenchuk City Art Gallery, Kremenchuk, Ukraine.
2017 — Colors of Copper, group exhibition / art gala, Galleria Coronado, Clifton, Arizona, USA.
2016 — Marler Kunststern 2016, group exhibition, Marl, Germany.
EARLIER GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020–2021 — All-Ukrainian Christmas Exhibition, House of Artists, Kyiv.
2020 — All-Ukrainian Exhibition Dedicated to the Artist's Day, House of Artists, Kyiv.
— III All-Ukrainian Exhibition 'Women's Portrait', House of Artists, Kyiv.
2019–2020 — All-Ukrainian Christmas Exhibition, House of Artists, Kyiv.
2019 — Eneida, All-Ukrainian exhibition dedicated to the 250th anniversary of Hryhoriy Kotlyarevsky's birth, Mykola Yaroshenko Poltava Art Museum, Poltava.
— XIII All-Ukrainian Exhibition 'Magical Colors of the Dnipro', Exhibition Halls of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Dnipro.
— All-Ukrainian Exhibition Dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine, House of Artists, Kyiv.
— VII All-Ukrainian Triennial 'Painting-2019', House of Artists, Kyiv.
— All-Ukrainian Exhibition 'Picturesque Ukraine', Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum / Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum, Kropyvnytskyi.
— Jubilee Exhibition Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the Kyiv Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, House of Artists, Kyiv.
2018–2019 — All-Ukrainian Christmas Exhibition, House of Artists, Kyiv.
— All-Ukrainian Exhibition 'United by the Dnipro', Arts House, Dnipro.
— All-Ukrainian Cultural Event Dedicated to the Artist's Day and the 80th Anniversary of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, House of Artists, Kyiv.
2018 — All-Ukrainian Exhibition Dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine, House of Artists, Kyiv.
— All-Ukrainian Exhibition 'Lubny Art Spring 2018', Local History Museum, Lubny.
— All-Ukrainian Fine Art Exhibition 'Picturesque Ukraine', Arkhip Kuindzhi Center for Contemporary Art, Mariupo.
— VIII All-Ukrainian Historical Biennial 'Ukraine from Trypillia to the Present in the Imagery of Contemporary Artists', House of Artists, Kyiv.
2017–2018 — All-Ukrainian Christmas Exhibition, House of Artists, Kyiv.
2017 — All-Ukrainian Artistic Event Dedicated to the Artist's Day, House of Artists, Kyiv.
— All-Ukrainian Exhibition Dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine, House of Artists, Kyiv.
— All-Ukrainian Fine Art Exhibition 'Picturesque Ukraine', Art Gallery, Sievierodonetsk.
— XVI All-Ukrainian Easter Exhibition of Decorative and Applied Arts 'God's World as Easter', Bila Tserkva.
2016–2017 — All-Ukrainian Christmas Exhibition, House of Artists, Kyiv.
2016 — All-Ukrainian Exhibition Dedicated to the 160th Anniversary of Ivan Franko's Birth, Exhibition Hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk.
— All-Ukrainian Exhibition Dedicated to the Artist's Day, House of Artists, Kyiv.
— All-Ukrainian Exhibition Dedicated to the 25th Anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, House of Artists, Kyiv.
— All-Ukrainian Easter Exhibition 'Extravaganza of Light', Yosyp Bukhanchuk Kmytiv Museum of Fine Arts, Kmytiv.
— All-Ukrainian Exhibition 'Picturesque Ukraine', Nikanor Onatsky Regional Art Museum, Sumy.
— XV All-Ukrainian Easter Exhibition of Decorative Arts 'God's World as Easter', Exhibition Halls of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Dnipro.
2015–2016 — All-Ukrainian Exhibition Dedicated to the Nativity of Christ, House of Artists, Kyiv.
2015 — All-Ukrainian Exhibition Dedicated to the Artist's Day, House of Artists, Kyiv.
— All-Ukrainian Exhibition Dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine, House of Artists, Kyiv.
— All-Ukrainian Exhibition 'Picturesque Ukraine', Exhibition Halls of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Chernihiv.
— All-Ukrainian Exhibition 'Generosity of the Native Land', Yosyp Bukhanchuk Kmytiv Museum of Fine Arts, Kmytiv.
PUBLICATIONS
2025 — Under My Skin, exhibition catalogue, edited by Lucrezia Caliani, Osservatoriomaree, Italy, p. 48 (featuring "Fiamma"). ISBN 979-12-9856-860-0.
2024 — Sguardi Plurali sull'Italia Plurale (seconda edizione), exhibition catalogue, edited by Pietro Cingolani and Monica Poggi, Società Umanitaria / FIERI, Italy, p. 59 (featuring "Luce e ombra").
2018 — Genetic Memory, personal art catalogue, introductory text by Olga Konovalova, Sofia-A Publishing House, Kyiv, Ukraine, 32 p.
2017 — Colors of Copper, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Coronado, Clifton, Arizona, USA (featuring "She").
2016 — Marler Kunststern 2016, exhibition catalogue, Marl, Germany (featuring "All and Nothing," "The Man Running on Water," and "Pomegranate Seeds").
COLLECTIONS
Works held in private collections across Europe and North America.