Bio

Kateryna Ivonina (b. 1976, Minsk, Belarus) is a Ukrainian-American visual artist living and working in the Atlanta metropolitan area, USA.

After seven years of formal art education in Minsk, she moved with her family to Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1991. She studied the restoration of decorative architectural ornament and stucco at Higher Vocational School No. 20 and later earned a degree in Architectural Environment Design from Kharkiv National University of Construction and Architecture.

For more than two decades, Ivonina worked in architecture and interior design. In 2002, she became a partner at the design studio Bondarenko Group, contributing to numerous residential and public interior projects, several of which received awards in Ukrainian professional competitions.

Her broader creative experience includes training in acting, theater, dance, music, and voice, as well as participation in acting workshops, small film roles, theatrical productions, and charity concerts. In 2023–2024, she independently developed and taught separate visual art and acting programs for children at the Ukrainian School of Atlanta.

In 2013, she established an active painting practice alongside her work in architecture and design. Her work has since been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Ukraine, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She is a member of the Union of Designers of Ukraine and the European Association of Artists ARTE.

Ivonina’s artistic practice explores the relationships among perception, memory, natural forms, and cultural symbols. A central focus of her work is anthropomorphic perception—the human tendency to recognize emotions, identities, and narratives in natural forms and objects. Moving between abstraction and representation, she investigates how meaning emerges through observation, projection, symbolism, and cultural memory.

Since relocating to the United States in 2021, Ivonina has devoted her professional practice entirely to visual art. She is currently developing long-term bodies of work that examine perception, identity, cultural heritage, and the transformation of traditional symbols within a contemporary context. Drawing on both personal experience and broader cultural narratives, these projects explore the dialogue between contemporary life, memory, and historical traditions.