B I O

Liza Shkirando (Swe/Rus, b.1986) a painter, a visual artist and an interaction designer based in Malmö, Sweden.

I obtained my masters in Interaction Design at Malmö University in 2014. Rooted in academic research, my art practice explores possibilities and poses questions. My creative process is focused on the phenomenology of painting and performance.

I primarily work in oil painting, using traditional media innovatively through transgressive experiments and conceptual projects. For me, painting transcends aesthetics; it serves as a means to research, conceptualize, and communicate complex ideas. Through video, I foster a direct and unfiltered conversation with the audience.

My art draws from my lived experiences, exploring identity, paradox, and binaries while navigating diverse cultures, political views, sexualities, and genders. The transgressive, the queer, and the anarchist embody a moving utopian horizon, while mourning the lost culture I grew up in. Through my practice, I challenge the norms, pushing the boundaries of taste and symbolism. My work exposes raw emotions, expressed through the body as a vessel, a prison, and medium. My body is central to my art—serving as a reference in my oil paintings and as a canvas for video and performance.

I have exhibited throughout Europe and Canada, including Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus, Denmark), FRANK Gallery (Malmö, Sweden) and Duplex Gallery (Lisbon, Portugal). Currently I am focused on the topics of identity and censorship, researching them through the prism of transgressive art. I’ve been a guest lecturer at Linnaeus University (Växjö, Sweden) and Malmö University (Malmö, Sweden) speaking about my artistic practice and research. I am involved with the art-based research group led by Professor Susan Kozel at Malmö University.