I am a visual artist working in drawing, painting, and monotype printmaking. My approach emphasizes close tonal and chromatic ranges, where muted palettes and delicate shifts of temperature and value become the central focus. I seek a condensed pictorial space that hovers between surface and atmosphere.
I work from life and from collected images I return to repeatedly, a cityscape I become familiar with over time, or archive photographs I rearrange into different compositions. My choice of subject matter is driven by association. I’m drawn by the weight a subject carries, its connections to history, myth, and art, the long chain of telling and retelling that has shaped how we understand it. My work is less about origins and more about resonance, not where something began, but what it has become through memory and imagination by the time it reaches us.
I want to compel the viewer to look closely, to linger. Through imagery that is evocative yet ambiguous in narrative, time, and space, and through nuanced tonal range, my work aims to create a contemplative experience where meaning is not given but arrived at. My work seeks to whisper rather than shout, to suggest rather than tell.
I work from life and from collected images I return to repeatedly, a cityscape I become familiar with over time, or archive photographs I rearrange into different compositions. My choice of subject matter is driven by association. I’m drawn by the weight a subject carries, its connections to history, myth, and art, the long chain of telling and retelling that has shaped how we understand it. My work is less about origins and more about resonance, not where something began, but what it has become through memory and imagination by the time it reaches us.
I want to compel the viewer to look closely, to linger. Through imagery that is evocative yet ambiguous in narrative, time, and space, and through nuanced tonal range, my work aims to create a contemplative experience where meaning is not given but arrived at. My work seeks to whisper rather than shout, to suggest rather than tell.
Born in Ukraine, Lives in Toronto
Solo exhibitions
2016- ‘Mythologies’ works on paper, curator Timna Perez, Space 2000, Jerusalem, Israel
2015- ‘Inside out’, curator Amir Bruchim, A La Rampa, Tel Aviv, Israel
Scholarships and awards
2026- Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center Residency
2018- the Avigdor Arikha memorial scholarship for an Israeli artist
Select group exhibitions
2026- 'Home Sweet Home'- Dundarave Print Workshop Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
2025- ‘Proofs and Processes’ Vitrine- Open Studio, Toronto ON, Canada
2025- Summer exhibition, curator Karen Smith- 155A Gallery, London UK
2023- ’Defined time’, curator Carmel Ben Or- Mazeh 9 municipal community center, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022- ‘The Still Life Painting’, curator Karen Smith- 155A Gallery, London UK
2021- ‘Contemporary Landscapes’, curator Karen Smith- 155A Gallery, London UK
2021- ‘Atmospheres’ curator Laura Vahalberg- Alexander/Heath Gallery, Roanoke, USA
2019- ‘Althea’ curator Inbal Marry Cohen- ND Gallery, Ramat Gan, Israel
2019- ‘Low Power Disaster’ curated by Layla Bari- Beit Ariela municipal Library, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019- RHA annual exhibition, Ireland, Dublin
2018- Group Summer Exhibition, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Education
2016-2023- B.A in philosophy and the arts (With honors), Open university Israel
2012- the JSS masterclass program for landscape painting in Civita Castelana, Italy
2010- the JSS masterclass program for landscape painting in Certosa di Pontengano, Italy
2008-2013- the Jerusalem Studio School masterclass program with Israel Hershberg
2005-2006- Rakefet Levy school of design for the performing arts
Solo exhibitions
2016- ‘Mythologies’ works on paper, curator Timna Perez, Space 2000, Jerusalem, Israel
2015- ‘Inside out’, curator Amir Bruchim, A La Rampa, Tel Aviv, Israel
Scholarships and awards
2026- Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center Residency
2018- the Avigdor Arikha memorial scholarship for an Israeli artist
Select group exhibitions
2026- 'Home Sweet Home'- Dundarave Print Workshop Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
2025- ‘Proofs and Processes’ Vitrine- Open Studio, Toronto ON, Canada
2025- Summer exhibition, curator Karen Smith- 155A Gallery, London UK
2023- ’Defined time’, curator Carmel Ben Or- Mazeh 9 municipal community center, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022- ‘The Still Life Painting’, curator Karen Smith- 155A Gallery, London UK
2021- ‘Contemporary Landscapes’, curator Karen Smith- 155A Gallery, London UK
2021- ‘Atmospheres’ curator Laura Vahalberg- Alexander/Heath Gallery, Roanoke, USA
2019- ‘Althea’ curator Inbal Marry Cohen- ND Gallery, Ramat Gan, Israel
2019- ‘Low Power Disaster’ curated by Layla Bari- Beit Ariela municipal Library, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019- RHA annual exhibition, Ireland, Dublin
2018- Group Summer Exhibition, Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Education
2016-2023- B.A in philosophy and the arts (With honors), Open university Israel
2012- the JSS masterclass program for landscape painting in Civita Castelana, Italy
2010- the JSS masterclass program for landscape painting in Certosa di Pontengano, Italy
2008-2013- the Jerusalem Studio School masterclass program with Israel Hershberg
2005-2006- Rakefet Levy school of design for the performing arts
Interview from Laura Vahlbergs blog
https://www.lauravahlberg.com/blog/2021/2/12/interview-with-lena-chermoshniuk
https://www.lauravahlberg.com/blog/2021/2/12/interview-with-lena-chermoshniuk
