Born in 1981. Lives and works in Paris
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TRAINING
2002: Bachelor's degree at the Kiev Industrial Technical School, specializing in ceramic artist, Kiev (UA)
EXHIBITIONS
2022: Revelations, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
- ARTCERAM, 8th Sèvres Biennial, Paris
2019: Member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC)
- Juré, Blanc de Chine International Ceramic Art Award (ICAA International Juried Porcelain Exhibition) Beijing (CN) - Grand Prix, International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics, National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishny, Kyiv (UA)
2016: Residence, Fuping Pottery Art Village, pavilion of "Ukrainian Modern Ceramics" (CN)
As a Ukrainian refugee artist living in Paris, Lelizaveta Portnova works around the idea of animality. Her work is less concerned with realistic or figurative representation than with exploring the construction principles of a zoomorphic form driven by the dramaturgy of the geopolitical context. She pays particular attention to surface effects, engobes and glazes.
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