Zhenya Stoyanova (b. Varna, Bulgaria) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, based in London and Sofia. Her artistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and video. 

Through intuitive exploration of shapes and the way they subconsciously build intimate narratives, she explores the frail thread of existence, making tangible the subject of alienation and isolation, the entanglement between sexuality, consumerism, and desire. Her multimedia work blurs the boundary between portraiture and still-life, producing inanimate bodies and seemingly animate objects as an attempt to tap into the problem of the objectification and digitalisation of the body, examining of stereotypes and challenging gender notions. She is interested in the obscure, yet ubiquitous representation of the female identity in the digital circulation of imagery, as well as its place in industries, deeply entrenched within hidden layers of exploitation and sexualization. Topics of money, power, temptation, commodification, transaction are the concerns she is actively engaged with. 

She graduated BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London in 2024.

Exhibitions

2024

Graduate Art Exhibition 2024, Candid Gallery, London UK

BA Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths University of London UK

Echoes Into The Future, SafeHouse, London UK

A Daughter and Feral Mothers, AMP Gallery, London UK

2023

Drawing Open 2023, No Format Gallery, London UK