SASHA STRESHNA

Visual arts

SASHA STRESHNA

Alexandra/Sasha Streshna was born in 1987 in Lviv, Soviet Ukraine and she has been living in Athens since 1999. She is a graduate of Athens School of Fine Arts (2011) and has obtained a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, London (2014) on a Sp. Vikatos Foundation Scholarship. In 2016 she received Jannis Spyropoulos Award. In 2019 she presented her first solo exhibition titled HELLO! curated by Ilias Papailiakis at space52 (Athens). Her practice and research are both concerned with figurative painting using oil on canvas. Her work refers to western history painting tradition, while depictions of violence and power are amongst the recurring themes.

DEAR BRUCE, 2019

DEAR BRUCE, 2019

JOHNNY, 2019 & WALLA, 2019

JOHNNY, 2019 & WALLA, 2019

BOP!, 2019

BOP!, 2019

BOOM!, 2019

BOOM!, 2019

HELLO!, 2019

HELLO!, 2019