Iva Urban (Ivanna Urban) is a Ukrainian contemporary artist based in London, working primarily with abstraction. Her paintings are characterized by impasto textures, layering, and minimalist yet versatile palettes that shift from monochrome to color while maintaining a refined visual language.

Her practice explores memory, identity, and transformation, translating psychological states into tactile surfaces where material becomes both gesture and silence. Working across painting, installations, and interactive formats, Urban creates works that invite reflection and establish a timeless presence within space.

“I create to find what cannot be explained, only felt.”

Her work spans different series and formats but remains united by a sensitivity to surface, rhythm, and texture, as well as a commitment to process-driven expression. This balance of restraint and depth allows her to develop a distinctive language that connects personal experience with universal resonance.

SELECTED EXIBITIONS

Woman in Art Prize , 69 York Street, Marylebone, London

Thresholds, University of Greenwich, London

Serendipity, HJ Gallery, London

EDUCATION 

London Metropolitan University, UK – Fine Art

Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukraine

Kosiv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, Ukraine