Meet the Artist

Mikena

Kuzmienska

Acrylic painting and drawing

“ My body of work revolves around memory and memorializing natural beings through acrylic paintings and drawings. Using blurred backgrounds to portray the loss of memory, I create new and “impossible” spaces for these beings to exists. Within each piece, I play with saturation, depicting how one can visualize memories; on one hand being bright, vibrant, and surreal, and on the other being dark and desaturated. Each artwork and the contents within correlate to how I remember and look back on each memory of visiting different wildlife spaces. I recall the natural world to be so lively and colourful, while also being chaotic and all merged together, and I try to emulate those memories within each piece, especially now that I view these wildlife spaces so differently. I see my body of the work as a whole as a pavilion of merging memories, and a place to rest tumultuously in the chaos of nature.”

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Mikena Kuzmienska is a traditional and contemporary artist working in acrylic paint, ink, and coloured pencil. She resides in Toronto, Ontario, where she produces realistic artwork consisting of collages of flora and fauna. She is fascinated by the beauty and calmness that nature brings, and strives to capture that fascination through portraying these beings in her artwork.Mikena’s work has been shown in various exhibitions and pop-ups such as The Toronto Art Crawl (Toronto, ON), and Next Generation Arts Fresh exhibition (Scarborough, ON), and in the Art Guild of Scarborough’s Spring 2025 exhibition. She will also be showcasing her work at OCAD U’s GradEx 111.
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Major Completed, 2026

Acrylic painting, coloured pencil

2026, GradEx
OCADU
2025, Art Guild of Scarborough
The Centennial Recreation Centre, 1967 Ellesmere Rd, Scarborough, ON
2025, Lines of Inquiry: Expanding the Boundaries of Drawing
OCAD U
2024, Toronto Art Crawl
The Great Hall, 1087 Queen Street West
2024, Pancakes and Booze
Revival, 783 College Street
2024, Next Generation Arts
1121 Bellamy Road North, Unit 10
2024, Pancakes and Booze
Revival, 783 College Street
2024, Toronto Art Crawl
The Great Hall, 1087 Queen Street West
2024, Springboard
OCAD U
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