Zhanna Kadyrova is a Ukrainian artist whose practice spans sculpture, mosaic, photography, video, installation, and performance. Born in Brovary and trained in sculpture at the Taras Shevchenko State Art High School in Kyiv, she works with themes of urban space, social transformation, collective memory, and war. A former member of the R.E.P. collective, she has recently focused on projects responding to the ongoing war and the realities of displacement, including Palianytsia, Russian Rocket, Refugees, and Instrument. 

Kadyrova is the recipient of major national and international awards, among them the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award (2012), the PinchukArtCentre Prize (2013), the Special Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize (2014), the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (2024), and Her Art Prize (2025), and she will be exhibiting at the upcoming 61st Venice Art Biennale. Her works are held in leading European public collections including the Centre Pompidou, Museum Ludwig, Castello di Rivoli, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Helsinki Art Museum, and the Art Collection of the German Bundestag. She lives and works in Kyiv.