Yaryna Shumska is a multidisciplinary Ukrainian artist known for merging performance and abstract painting, a process she describes as building an "archive of action." From 2008 to 2020, her abstract canvases became sites for exploring the physical dimensions of color, texture, and rhythm. This period established the basis for her ongoing approach, in which painting bears the direct trace of bodily presence. Shumska has exhibited widely in Ukraine, as well as in Poland, France, Spain, and the United States, with projects taking her to venues such as the Venice International Performance Art Week, Tokyo, Bangkok, Barcelona, and Arctic Action in Svalbard.