Olga Mun is a Manchester-based painter whose work occupies the space between abstraction and figuration. Born in the former Soviet Union and shaped by experiences of migration, cultural displacement, and social transformation, she uses painting to explore memory, embodiment, and the complexities of human experience.

Working on a large scale, Mun develops her paintings through a process of layering, erasure, and reconstruction. Human, animal, and symbolic forms emerge and dissolve within fluid painterly environments, creating images that move between the personal and the collective, the historical and the imagined. Rather than illustrating specific narratives, her work seeks to hold contradiction and ambiguity, allowing meaning to remain open and unstable.

Mun is the winner of the AXA Art Prize UK 2023 and has exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Beep Painting Biennial, The Manchester Contemporary, and in solo and group exhibitions across the UK.

Her current practice investigates the relationship between memory, myth, and contemporary experience, using painting as a space where intuition, history, and imagination can coexist. Through this approach, she creates works that invite reflection on vulnerability, transformation, and the shifting nature of identity.

Website: www.olgamun.com

Instagram: @mun_olga