ocean grove

Transforming Ocean Plastic into Art as a Way to Cleaner Seas

secret garden

Watercolor series

Meet Liza Basay

Ukrainian artist (b. 1984), currently based in the UAE, Liza Basay works across painting, large-scale
murals, and sculpture.

With a background in fine arts and arts education, she has developed a distinctive multidisciplinary
practice that blends studio work, public art, and community engagement.
Her practice also extends into cultural activism. In Kyiv and Dnipro, she led collaborations between
state administrations and local businesses on art and cultural initiatives, and founded an art school
based on her own educational methodology.

Since relocating to the UAE, she has continued to expand her work through private and public
commissions (including the IHG Group) and socially engaged art projects — including international
collaborations in her role as an art consultant (Kleindienst Group).

Judith

The search of an image

Social projects

City art and more

Inside the refugee

Fragments of thoughts and feelings

Social Role

Artist statement

Visual art engages directly with the subconscious and does not need lots of words.

I am here to paint the dream someone needed to see, feel, experience, and forget.

I am here to dance with my viewer in silence and haze, offering only the visual and letting them shape the rest.

As a socially engaged artist, I work with recreational public spaces such as parks and walkways, transforming them into inspiring and meaningful environments.

For me, the most rewarding moment is seeing how an empty space becomes a place where people gather, take memorable photographs, and simply choose to spend time surrounded by art.


Exhibitions

A Part Apart | Galerie Ephemere, Paris, France, 2023

Group exhibition exploring the complexity of being displaced and the perception of the displaced.

Daydreaming garden | Monat Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2022

Daydreaming Garden underlied the plural identity of the gallery, holding a conversation between East

and West contemporary artistic approaches and fostering dialogue between cultures, temporalities and

artistic expressions.

Art Monte-Carlo | Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 2021

Leading artistic platform for contemporary art, modern art and design.

DniPRO GogolFest | Dnipro, Ukraine, 2020

Participation in the interdisciplinary festival connecting theatre, music, and visual art.

PRO dniPRO GogolFest | Dnipro, Ukraine, 2019

Presentation of murals within Ukraine’s major cultural platform.


press

The Art of Collecting, ARTIO, June 03, 2024

Liza Basay: Unveiling the Beauty of Watercolor Artistry, Visual Atelier 8, July 19, 2023

Secret Garden: Watercolor Artworks by Liza Basay, Inspiration Grid, Jun 26, 2023

The art school painted the gray classrooms of the capital’s schools in bright colors, Kyiv24 News,

December 29, 2021

Liza Basay: “The Wish-Fulfilling Fish” Art Object Restored on Pushkina Street, Dnipro-Inform,

December 28, 2020

Liza Basay: Artist Adorns the City with Creative Energy, Gorod.dp.ua, November 11, 2019

Liza Basay: Sculptures for “DniPrometey Vovstaly” at DniPRO GogolFest, Kultura Stolytsya,

October 20, 2019