Svitlana Biedarieva

Svitlana Biedarieva is an award-winning art historian, artist, and curator. She specializes in Ukrainian, Eastern European, and Latin American art, with a focus on decoloniality and resistance in contemporary art practices. She is the author of the book Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukrainian-Russian Case (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), the editor of the books Art in Ukraine between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance (Routledge, 2024) and Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991-2021 (ibidem Press, 2021) and the co-editor of At the Front Line. Ukrainian Art, 2013-2019 (Editorial 17, 2020). In 2022/23, Svitlana was selected as the George F. Kennan Fellow at the Kennan Institute, Wilson Center, and the Non-Resident Visiting Fellow at the George Washington University for her research, the CEC ArtsLink International Fellow for her curatorial work, and the Prince Claus Seed Award Laureate for her artistic work. She holds a PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Svitlana has published her texts in such academic journals and media outlets as October, Daedalus, ArtMargins Online, Space and Culture, post at MoMA, Revue Critique d’Art, Financial Times, Burlington Contemporary, Hyperallergic, and The Art Newspaper, among others. In 2025, she serves as President-Elect of the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA).