Janina Myronova is born in 1987 in Donieck, Ukraine and lives and works in Wroclaw, Poland. She creates narrative through figurative forms and composed backdrops.Her characters display a specific, distorted body perspective. The forms are a bit clunky, chubby, anatomically misshapen, marked with accents which double the characters or hybridize their silhouettes. Each sculpture is a different personality, a personal story, a graphic “novel” featuring my favorite motifs: images of family relationships, parent and child, partners, pets. Jarnina Myronova emotions are “scratched” into them, with a subtle hint towards humor. Wonder, anger, fear and joy are all present there. She received her MFA from the Department of Ceramic Art at Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts (Lviv, Ukraine) in 2012, an MFA from the Department of Ceramics and Glass at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Wroclaw, Poland) in 2013, and her PhD from the same department in 2019. Continually developing her practice, Myronowa has participated in numerous residencies, including at the New Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taiwan), Clayarch Gimhae Museum (South Korea), Lefebvre and Fils (Paris, France), the Polish Sculpture Centre (Oronsko, Poland), International Ceramic Research Center Guldagergaard (Denmark), International Ceramic Studio (Kecskemet, Hungary), and the Northern Clay Center (USA). Janina has exhibited internationally, with recent solo shows including Folktales & Fanfare at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana, and Wonder Land at Lucy Lacoste Gallery, USA. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions such as the Fourth Hong Juang Zi Qi International Ceramic Week, at Yixing Museum, China.