Julia-Anna Simonchuk
Artist Statement
Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Julia has been a Londoner for six years now. She graduated from BA Fine Art course at CSM and is currently finishing a Fine Art MA at the Slade.
Julia is working with sculpture, collage, installation, printmaking, socially-engaging projects and moving image. Her art practice is informed by research into history as well as personal experiences of witnessing history-in-making. She is working with the questions of power, ideology, memorialisation, decolonisation, hauntology, and time.
Credits: Varvara Uhlik
Education
2023-2025
MA Fine Art, Slade, UCL
2020-2023
BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins.
1st Class Honours
2019-2020
Foundation Diploma in Fine Art and Design,
Central Saint Martins - University of Arts London
2017
Short Courses - University of the Arts London - Fine Arts and Theatre Design at Central Saint Martins college and Fine Arts at Chelsea college
Exhibitions and projects
2025
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‘It Fit On The Way Here’, Group Show Barbican Trust. Link
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‘Between the Lines’, Libreria Bookshop. Link
2024
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Slade Interim Show, showcasing 'Testimony of CHAIKA-II'. Link
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Fundraising auction and exhibition 'Art Aid Ukraine'. Link
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'There is Something New Under the Sun', Slade Postgrad group show at TANK Magazine space, London. Link
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Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Showcased 'Monumental Threat' and 'Friendships End' at Museum Late in the context of William Blake and Conflict Beyond Borders and Forms.
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Album cover art design 'Alternative Readings' by Michael Finnissy (label: Métier). Release: March 2024. Link
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'Re-Prise' - group show at the OPENING, Koppel Project, London. Link
2023
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Slade Postgraduate interim showcase. Link
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Event in a context of a project: Camouflage. Wings We Desire. St Andrew's Chruch. 4th and 6th June. Link
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Central Saint Martins Graduate Showcase. Link to online showcase of the graduation project
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Presenter at Central and Eastern European Creatives Network event hosted by Centrala. Link
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Poster design (based on Jonas Staal painting) for 'Socialist Anthropocene in Visual Art. Project' by Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Postsocialist Art Centre UCL).
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CSM Open Studios, showcasing 'Regaining Paradises'. Link
2022
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'I Dance the Other' (collaboration of CSM BA Fine Art and Studio Wayne McGregor
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'Touched' (CSM BA Fine Art and the National Gallery) - participant at Yasse Saidi's performances. Link
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CSM Open Studios, showcasing 'Monumental Threat'. Link
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USU Fundraiser Gala for Ukraine. Link
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'Sounds for Ukraine' - a fundraising piano concert in support of Ukraine, which took place in St Paul's Actors Church Covent Garden. Julia was in charge of organization, management, performance, communication and advertisement. Link
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CSM Open Studios, showcasing 'Altered City' and 'The Falling'.
2021
2020
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UAL Graduate Showcase (online)
2019
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Group show 'Painting Beyond Itself' at the Bomb Factory, London. Link
2018
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Illustration accompaniment to a literature event - Dramgurtok at Gogolfest, Vinnytsia
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Internship in the educational department of the Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2017
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Co-curation of an exhibition in the context of a performance of Nadar Ensemble on Gogolfest, Kyiv Link
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Participation in a performance "Freedom to be yourself” by Daria Koltsova at He for She Art Week, Kyiv
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Internship as an assistant in communication at the Unit.City Art Prize, Kyiv
2016
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Personal exhibition in Maisteriya gallery at The House of Artist, Kyiv