Lesia Smyrna
NAQA Board Member
Researcher, theorist and curator of art, author of several individual monographs, co-author of collective monographs, articles and projects related to the new epistemological and aesthetic potential of visual art forms in Ukraine. Doctor habil. (Art Studies), Senior Researcher.
Head of the Department of International Scientific and Artistic Relations of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, leading researcher at the Modern Art Research Institute of the NAAU.
Expert of the Ivan Franko International Found.
Participated in the project “Implementation of Education Quality Assurance System via Cooperation of University-Business-Government in HEIs” (EDUQAS).
She has been a visiting researcher at The Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM), the Institute for Advanced Study (Delmenhorst, Germany), and the Research Centre for the History of Transformation in Vienna (RECET).
She has a number of publications and interviews on higher education issues.
Laureate of the Volyanik-Shwabinsky Literary and Scientific Foundation of the Ukrainian Free University (Munich, Germany). She was awarded the Platon Biletsky Prize for her book “The Centennial of the Nonconformism in Ukrainian Visual Art” (2017).