Ievgeniia Cherednikova is a Ukrainian, born in Kyiv, who paints and currently resides in Toronto, Canada. Having graduated from OCAD University majoring in Drawing and Painting (Houns) in 2024, she has discovered nature in her paintings, sculptures, and installations in recent years. It further encouraged her to inquire about the sustainability and recyclability of her artworks in the future. Rob Nichols, her abstract painting teacher in school, was one of the first people who supported her during her abstraction endeavors at the university. It was there that she was first introduced to abstraction. Cherednikova has participated in group exhibitions that support youth mental health, volunteered for an Indigenous Peruvian artist, Olinda Silvano, to paint a mural which was later exhibited in Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, and has participated at Gradex 109 in OCADU to showcase her thesis art installations. She plans to delve deeper into mysticism, intuitive painting, abstraction, and nature to inquire further and experience the world to offer a more sustainable output to the viewer.
artist statement
I admire nature and natural landscapes and attempt to recreate my feeling of their beauty in the art pieces. By offering a vision of a more self-sustainable alternative, I make abstractions about the natural environment around myself. These abstractions can either take the shape of intuitive making or paintings closer to chosen realistic references. Currently, I am experimenting with more sustainable practices in paint and paint applications in a studio by exploring watercolor, and cotton fabric to further assist in my purpose. During my recent partaking in GRADEX 109 at OCAD University, I inquired into the concept of an offering to Mother Earth with soil and water, by creating an installation. Respectively, by finishing a degree, I concluded it with an interest in sustainability and nature. I was previously involved in installation, abstraction, sculpture, figurative painting, and collage. By exploring materials such as beeswax, oil, oil pastel, soft pastel, acrylics, inks, weaving, knitting, and watercolor, I learned their various properties. I continue to research and mix multiple techniques and properties of the current medium by experimenting and finding more sustainable outcomes in my studio.