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Lina Poluna | Artist at Mondoir
Nationality: Russian
Discipline: painting
Based in: T'bilisi, GE
Biography
Lina Poluna (b. 1998) is an oil painter based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her work explores psychological tension through images of animals, human figures, and the nude body. Working within dark, calm, and slightly unsettling atmospheres, she examines emotional states that exist beneath visible stillness.
Poluna began her artistic practice through academic drawing studies with a private instructor before working as a tattoo artist from 2019. This experience shaped her sensitivity to the body as both image and surface a place where memory, vulnerability, and transformation intersect.
Her paintings often balance between fragility and restraint, where quiet compositions carry an undercurrent of unease. Animals and human figures appear as emotional carriers rather than narrative subjects, inhabiting spaces that feel suspended between protection and confinement.
Artist Statement
My work exists in the space between freedom and confinement where protection turns into isolation and silence grows heavier than words.
I paint emotional states rather than stories. Tension, vulnerability, control. What is held beneath the skin until it begins to fracture.
Earlier, this pressure appeared through fragile, non-human forms. Over time, it became human. The body emerged as both witness and container carrying memory, impact, and the possibility of transformation.
My paintings do not seek to comfort.( They hold a space where the wound and the light remain unresolved.
Exhibitions
Collective Expositions
2026 WOMEN IN ART, Con/Temporary Spaces - Turin, Italy
2026 Feel/Form, Masterium Gallery - Batumi, Georgia
2023 Artist Of The Year, Brouhaha -Virtual exhibition
2023 The New Artist, Boomer Gallery - London, United Kingdom
Prizes and Awards
2025 Golden Time Talent, 70Th Season, International Juried Art Competition (3rd place) - Hornchurch, United Kingdom
2023 6th Animal International Juried Art Competition, Teravarna (finalist) - Los Angeles, United States
Awards
2025 Golden Time Talent, 70Th Season, International Juried Art Competition (3rd place) - Hornchurch, United Kingdom
2023 6th Animal International Juried Art Competition, Teravarna (finalist) - Los Angeles, United States
Education
2019 Academic drawing studies with a private instructor