Yuma Radne

BIO

Born in the city of Ulaan Ude, Buryad-Mongolia, Yuma Radne started painting from an early age and attended an art school since she was 5. Having started developing her own style, she began participating in groupshows in Siberia sinde she was 14, after appearance in local newspapers.

Soon after she dropped out of school and began painting full-time. Radne held her first solo show at the National Museum of Buryatia in 2018, being 17. Same year she moved to Saint Petersburg to study monumental painting in Shtiglitz Academy. In 2019 she had rejected the traditional way of education there and flew to Austria, where she studied painting in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with an exchange year at Slade School of Art.

By the age of 22, she has held a solo show in France with Bloom Galerie and 2 more solo shows with Steve Turner in Los Angeles. In the summer 2023 she has been featured in the Artsy Article “10 Emerging Painters Born in the 2000s to Watch Now’”.

In her paintings Yuma researches her difficult identity, coming from an asian diaspora in a post-soviet, siberian society. Through sensitive and poetic figurative language, she indirectly the celebrates ancient traditions and practices. The paintings are both vulnerable and empowered, deploying a personal symbolic lexicon to offer glimpses into an often- overlooked cultural experience and national identity.

Lives and works in London.