The story of every person has different colors. My characters are a bit clunky, chubby, anatomically misshapen, often embellished with doubles or hybrid silhouettes. Each sculpture is a different personality, a personal story, a graphic novel featuring my favorite visual motifs: family relationships, parents and children, partners, pets. My emotions are etched into them—humor, wonder, anger, fear and joy all present.
—Janina Myronova
Janina Myronova has an MFA from the Department of Ceramic Art at Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts (Lviv, Ukraine), as well as an MFA and PhD from the Department of Ceramics and Glass at The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Wroclaw, Poland). Continually developing her work and practice, Myronova has held residencies at institutions worldwide, including the New Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum (New Taipei, Taiwan), Lefebvre and Fils (Paris, France), the Polish Sculpture Centre (Oronsko, Poland), the International Ceramic Research Center (Guldagergaard, Denmark), Northern Clay Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota) and, currently, the Archie Bray Foundation (Helena, Montana).