About

Daria Dmytrenko (1993, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) lives and works in Venice, Italy.

After receiving her initial artistic training in Dnipropetrovsk, she studied painting at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kyiv. In 2015, she moved to Venice to pursue her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, from which she later graduated.

"The striking quality of Dmytrenko’s visuals lies in the equilibrium between familiarity and alien-like appearance. The images can be perceived as abstract or surreal while often morphing into vaguely recognizable or plausible forms. An odd limb, a squinting eye, or fur-like surfaces transform her painterly exercises into distinctive forms that seem to possess a history—or at least a story. It’s the employment of multiple, highly unmediated, and purposely obstructed technical methods that condition such idiosyncratic appearance. “My paintings are the incarnation of my subconscious,” Dmytrenko summarizes the essence of her practice, which made a sudden shift once the creative freedom encouraged at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice replaced the dogmatic approach at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kyiv. Holding onto the love for the figure while determined to “paint without thinking,” elements of pseudo-anatomy are devised intuitively, merging the two disparate mindsets."

-Saša Bogojev

Solo Shows:
2025 - "The Dreams I Don't Remember", PM/AM, London, UK
2024 - “Who’s Afraid of the Dark”, Secci, Milan, Italy
2024 - “Journey to the Center of the Mind”, Stems, Paris, France
2024 - “What’s Behind the Gloom”, Setareh, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022 - “The Dream of Reason”, Eduardo Secci, Florence, Italy

Group shows:
2025 - “On and Beyond - A Love Letter to Shadows”, Alberta Pane, Venice, Italy 2025 - "Aldilà sarà", Spazio Berlendis, Venice, Italy
2024 - “From Nature”, Whitewall Projects, Paris, France
2023 - “Kindred Visions”, Secci Gallery, Florence, Italy
2023 - “Hotel-Dieu”, A plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy
2023 - “Fondazione Malutta in Spazio”, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
2023 - “ENDGAME”, Eduardo Secci Gallery, Pietrasanta, Italy
2023 - “Vedersi da fuori, vedersi da dentro”, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Galleria di Piazza S. Marco, Venice , Italy
2022 - “DEVYANOSTIE”, Cassina progects, Milan, Italy
2022 - “Fluuuuuido”, Cassina Progects, Milan , Italy
2022 - “Not playable character”, Scuola Media Statale “Pier Fortunato Calvi”, Venice, Italy
2022 - “Upon a time”, Eduardo Secci, Florence, Italy
2021 - “Degree Show II”, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
2020 - “Extraordinario”, Vulcano agency, VEGA (parco scientifico tecnologico di Venezia), Venice, Italy
2020 - “103ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti”, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Galleria di Piazza S. Marco, Venice , Italy

Residencies:
2025 - PM/AM, London, UK
2023 - Progetto Borca, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Borca di Cadore(BL), Italy
2022-2023 - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
2021 - Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy