2026
WOMEN IN ART
Con/Temporary Spaces — Turin, Italy
Artist · Observer · Maker
Lina paints what stillness holds beneath the surface.
Lina Poluna · Studio portrait
Artist statement
A practice built from attention, instinct and return
Lina Poluna is an oil painter based in Tbilisi. Her work examines emotional states that exist beneath visible stillness.
Working within dark, calm and slightly unsettling atmospheres, she explores psychological tension through animals, human figures and the nude body.
Lina began with academic drawing studies before working as a tattoo artist from 2019. That experience shaped her sensitivity to the body as both image and surface - a place where memory, vulnerability and transformation intersect.
Collective Expositions
2026
Feel/Form
Masterium Gallery — Batumi, Georgia
2023
Artist Of The Year
Brouhaha — Virtual exhibition
2023
The New Artist
Boomer Gallery — London, United Kingdom
Prizes and Awards
2025
Golden Time Talent, 70Th Season
International Juried Art Competition — Hornchurch, United Kingdom (3rd place)
2023
6th Animal International Juried Art Competition
Teravarna — Los Angeles, United States (finalist)
“They hold a space where the wound and the light remain unresolved.”
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