Glam Gargoyle

Born in 1993 in Berdyansk, Ukraine, Glam Gargoyle is a female visual artist whose practice is rooted in painting and installation. She studied at the Higher School of Art in Dnipro, Ukraine from 2009 to 2013, then at the Kyiv Academy of Digital Arts, Contemporary Art Department, from 2017 to 2018. Her interests and reflections focus on queer identity, transhumanism, utopia and the refugee condition. She considers painting and installation to be mediums of privilege, as they require access to materials and space. She creates works critical of oppressive policies: she imagines disquieting utopias as cracked realities. She has two solo exhibitions: at Noch Gallery in Odessa, Ukraine, in 2019, and at Galerie Labyrinth in Lublin, Poland, in 2023. She left Ukraine at the start of the war and arrived in Marseille in July 2023, after passing through Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, Hanover, Krakow and Lyon. She has been a member of the agency of artists in exile since September 2023. She participates in contemporary art fair Art-o-rama in Marseille in 2024.