About Alina
Alina Karmadanova is a painter born in Siberia (Russia). She holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and Design. From 2018 to 2023 she worked and lived in Shanghai, China. From 2022 to 2024 Alina studied at Falmouth University (UK) and received her master’s degree in Illustration online. She graduated from New Brunswick College of Craft and Design with an advanced studio practice certificate. She exhibited her art in galleries in Russia, China, the UK, the USA and Canada over the past 6 years.
Artist Statement
My work investigates female identity under contemporary neo-patriarchy. I use the body as a site where personal history, trauma, and cultural memory converge. The figures I create intertwine dreams, lived experiences, and fragments of memory, exploring vulnerability, resilience, and the ways societal expectations shape women’s lives.
Having survived domestic violence and experienced the challenges of two migrations, I approach my practice as both an act of care and resistance. Drawing on matrilineal narratives and folklore, I examine the rupture of cultural roots and the construction of new identities — as an artist and as a woman navigating displacement, searching for a sense of home, and confronting inherited structures of power. My work creates spaces where personal experience reveals social pressures, making visible what is often silenced or unseen.
Artist CV
Education
2022-2024 MA Illustration, Falmouth University UK (online)
2023-2024 Advanced Studio practice, NBCCD, Fredericton, NB, Canada
2011-2016 BA Architecture and Design, Irkutsk, Russia
Exhibitions
2025 “Exhibition in the CACD’s open spaces”, Centre des arts at de la culture de Dieppe, Dieppe, NB, Canada (group)
2025 “Becoming US”, MCAF, International Art Center, Government House, Fredericton, NB, Canada (group)
2024 “Rise of the Divine”, “Divine Studios”, Saint John, NB, Canada (group)
2024 ‘Playground”, “George Fry Gallery”, Fredericton, NB, Canada (group)
2023 “Home”, International Art Center, Government House, Fredericton, NB, Canada (group)
2023 NBCCD Craft sale, “George’s Fry Gallery”, Fredericton, NB, Canada (group)
2023 "The Narrative", Chateau gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. (group)
2023 “Mars Popular Art Festival”, Wuhan, China (group)
2022 Creation Season 3, “Present and Future”, ASEAN Culture and Art Exchange center, Xiamen, China (group)
Professional activities
2025 July - ArtsNB creation Grant, “Neopatriarchy” project
2024 September - 2024 December - Catapult program and Artist Talk, sponsored by ArtsLink NB, Moncton
2023- present Solo-propietor “ALine” participating in various art-markets and pop-up shows, Canada
2023 Co-Host “Artist lecture series” talks at Beaverbrook gallery, Fredericton, NB, Canada
2020-2023 Teaching art and art history at bilingual school and conducting various painting workshops in Shanghai
Residencies
2024 “Forest fairies” project, NBCCD summer residency, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Collections
ASEAN Culture and Art Exchange center, Xiamen, China
Selected press
Interview:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/immigrant-artist-exhibition-fredericton-home-1.7089816
Current project. Neo-Patriarchy
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Abject №1
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Abject №2
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Abject №3
Selected works
Mirror 1
For the sake of my cat
Miss X
The Joy
Lhamo
Connection 1
Connection 2
Mirror 2
Propaganda. The Beginning
Price
Propaganda. The end
