Ustina creates artworks without sketches, as she is interested in self-forming composition as part of the creation process. "Drawing develops as a living creature, taking new forms throughout the work. Individual elements like the beads, stitches, and lines construct my structures and form my visual language. In my works, I use automatic writing process which binds the time into the material form. My practice revolves around labour-intensive contemplative practices that navigate my works. I define myself as a process-based artist embedded in the nature and the traditions of my north Russian heritage. Through long running meditative and pagan practices I create objects, installations, books and paintings, all as an effect of time and local surroundings".

Education:

Solo and two-person Exhibitions

2021

• When Shades Overlap, together with Daniil Antropov, Art Design Human Studio, Moscow
• Those who are not..., factory "Belomor Patterns", Arkhangelsk
• Virtual show in the framework of “Deutschland Express” Virtual Festival, with Various&Gould
• In the Landscape's Shadow, with Vladimir Chernyshev, Artwin gallery, Cube, Moscow

2019

• Porato Basko, with Ulyana Podkorytova, Art Museum of Arctic exploration named after Borisov, Arkhangelsk
• Russian Witches, with Alina Glazoun and Lyudmila Baronina, Centrepoint Artwall, Basel, Switzerland
• One-piece exhibition at Between Windows space, Moscow

2018

• Conversion with German Lavrovsky, Dreiviertel art space, Bern, Switzerland
• Solo show at Centrepoint Artwall, Basel, Switzerland
• "Experiments ShShSh. Experiment №1: Synchronisation 2 | Impulses synchronisation" with Daria Neretina and Maria Kechaeva, CCI Fabrika, Moscow
• Solo show at Vyksa art-residence, Vyksa, Nizhny Novgorod oblast
• Temporal Touch, Anna Nova Gallery, St.-Petersburg

2017

• "Ambience", with Andrey Dmitrenko, Center for contemporary art Zarya, Vladivostok
• “Synchronisation”, with Maria Kechaeva, Armyansky pereulok 13, Moscow

2016

• "Occupation", Agora Collective, Berlin, Germany
• Morphologien des Wandels, Kabinett Auktion & Antiquitäten GmbH, Berlin, Germany
• "Spine of Twilight Lady" with Ilya Romanov, Kultproekt gallery, Moscow

2012

• "Inner Surface", Triumph Gallery, Moscow
• Inversion, AA collections / Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2011

• "Monochrom", Rodnya studio, Moscow

2010

• "Vacuum", Green art gallery, Perm

• Ust-Tsilma, Start, Moscow Centre for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow

Selected Group Exhibitions 

2021

• The Raw and the Cooked, Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg
• The First Northern Biennale "New Discovery of the North", National Gallery of Komi, Syktyvkar
• Archstoyanie festival, art park Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga area, Russia
• Living Matter, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• What Do Mermaids Sing About, Art-Etage, Vladivostok
• Rosa Lux, WIP, Moscow
• It Will Work if You Close Your Eyes, ART4 Museum, Moscow

2020

• The Cell, the State Darwin museum, Moscow

2019

• 0.0.0.0., Orekhov Gallery, Moscow
• Natura Sintetica, Ural Vision gallery, Ekaterinburg
• The 5th Ural Industrial Biennale of contemporary art "Immortality", Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant, Ekaterinburg
• Everything is not what it seems, special project of the 5th Ural Biennale, Ivan Slovtsov Museum Complex, Tyumen'
• "BURO.New Cool", Depo, Moscow
• Fringe, Gallery Valo, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, Finland

2018

• Arctic Art Forum, The Youth House of the Arkhangelsk region, Arkhangelsk
• "Everything is not What It Seems to be" within "Bazhov-Fest", Ural NCCA, Ekaterinburg
• "Textile", New wing of Gogol House, Moscow
• "Museum of Material Culture", Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building, Moscow