Nadiya  Svirsky is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in printmaking, painting and installation..

Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine in 1996, Svirsky has been living, learning and working in Canada since 2002.  Svirsky’s main preoccupations lie in themes of memory, in-betweenness, heritage, and depictions of moments that connote the passage of time. Svirsky’s creative practice (mainly comprised of multi-plate etching, oil painting and lithography) is intrinsically tied to the process-based nature of the works that she makes - working and reworking images in variation through painting and printmaking mirrors the mental and emotional processes of retrospection itself. Through these processes, Svirsky explores the tension created by trying to depict or preserve something so elusive as memory. In recent years, her work has expanded from working with personal memory to also include collective memory, with particular interest in how public architecture, urban development and infrastructure operate as permeable monuments and archives for collective memory and ideology. 

Svirsky is currently pursuing an MFA in Print Media at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She received her BFA in Printmaking and Publications with a minor in Drawing & Painting from Ontario College of Art & Design University in 2021, and completed the Visual Arts program at Etobicoke school of the Arts in 2014.