Sergei Zinchuk is a London/Portugal based artist, working in a range of media including large scale installations, writing and moving image. Sergei’s work is often informed by architecture and poetics of space, looked through a particular angle of underlying systems and cultural hegemonies: post-communist, post-capitalist, post-human.

Sergei was born in Ukraine when it was still part of Soviet Union, and emigrated to the UK in 2002. He graduated from Royal College of Art, London in 2021 with Masters in Critical Art Practice. The year of the pandemic, marked by an enforced isolation in a remote countryside location with limited resources, presented an unexpected opportunity for new work: from using paper-making techniques to develop a material out of dust, waste and remnants of maintenance, and weaving it onto 'spatial' looms, to building a kind of transcendent world out of fragments of fictions, memories, rejected imagery and video footage.

The invasion of Ukraine and current war has shifted priorities, however Sergei’s experimentation with paper continued, and is now incorporating the technique of body-imprinting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
My path to art has not been linear. Aermath of Soviet Union collapse in my teens rendered my choosing an art degree implausible, later emigration to the UK to be openly queer was another ground zero, subsequent urge to assimilate in a new society took years. Eventually maturity, British citizenship and art education led me to begin addressing my place in the society and planning a meaningful contribution. Recent graduation from RCA with MA in Critical Practice marked a full shi to professional art practice.
Personal highlights of my journey here include the following:
-MEAT-META ALARM, at Bermondsey Gallery, London, 2022 Contributing Artist and Proposal Writer, Moving Image
-WAITING ROOM, at Tactile Bosch, Cardiff, 2021 Contributing Artist and Proposal Writer, Moving Image
-LONDON GRADS, at Saatchi Gallery, London, 2021-22 Selected Artist, Installation
-NOT A SPHERE, at DOOR Residency, Amsterdam, 2021 Contributing Artist and Proposal Writer, Live-streamed durational performance
-WASTE EXCHANGE Collective, London 2021, Nantes 2022 Co-curator, contributing artist, Video and Public Workshop
-MONTEZ PRESS RADIO, London, 2021 Contributing Artist (Everything Forever Festival), Spoken Word
-FIENDS Independent Publishing Project, London, 2020 Co-Editor and Contributing Writer
-IN THE FOG, London, 2019 Co-curator and contributing Artist, Dyson Gallery
-SHADWELL OPERA, London, 2017 Artist in Residence, Audience Engagement
-TAYLOR WHIMPEY, London, 2017 Public Sculpture Commission Finalist
-SRC CODE: PEOPLE Group Shows, London 2016-2017 Collective Founder and Exhibiting Artist

ACADEMIC HISTORY
-MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, Contemporary Art Practice (2021)
-BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2016) – 1st Class Honours Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing,
-LSM, London (2004) MA in Marketing, National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine (2002) – 1st Class Honours BA in Economics, National
-University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine (2000) – 1st Class Honours