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.
2013-2018
2018-2022
2015
2018
Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Institute of Arts
speciality The Pictural Art (MA)
lecturer of fine arts in Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Institute of Arts
member of National Union of Artists of Ukraine
Grant of the President of Ukraine to talented young people. «Genetic memory» project
2019
Scholarship of the President of Ukraine
Participant in 65 all-Ukrainian and International exhibitions, among them:
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
- «Read Between the Lines», Ninety-Seven Modern, Detroit, USA (group)
- «Under My Skin», exhibition catalogue, Osservatorio Maree, Italy,
p. 48 (featuring *Fiamma*). ISBN: 9791298568600
- «Sguardi Plurali 2», The cloister of the Department of History, Cultures, and Civilizations at the University of Bologna, Italia
- «Our Time and Our Space», National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv, Ukraine
- II International plein air and exhibition «Niegocin-Mazurskie Inspiracie 2023», Niegocin gallery, Vilkasi, Poland
- «Windows of Monte Castello», International Center for the Arts, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy (s)
- International Landscape Exhibition «A. Kuindzhi Memorial», Kuindzhi Art Museum, Kuindzhi Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Mariupol, Ukraine
- I International Triennial "In the Land of Gray Pearls" as part of the "ART NOVA" competition project, Art gallery City, Kremenchuk, Ukraine
- VII All-Ukrainian Triennial "Painting-2019". The Central House of the Artist of the "National Union of Artists of Ukraine", Kyiv, Ukraine
- Solo exhibition «Genetic memory», Art gallery «Mytets», Kyiv, Ukraine
- «Colors of copper», Galleria Coronado, Clifton, USA
- «MARLER KUNSTSTERN», Marler Stern, Marl, Germany