Blazing Wind

About the artist

Yuma Radne is a London-based painter whose work is shaped by her roots in Ulaan Ude, Buryad-Mongolia, and her path through Russia, Austria, and the United Kingdom. She began painting early, attending art school at the age of five and taking part in group exhibitions in Siberia by fourteen. At seventeen, she held her first solo show at the National Museum of Buryatia, then moved to Saint Petersburg to study monumental painting. A year later, she left the traditional academy system and continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, including an exchange year at the Slade School of Art in London.

Radne's work explores cultural memory, identity, and belonging. Through a sensitive and poetic figurative language, she draws on ancient Buryat traditions and her experience as part of an Asian diaspora in a post-Soviet society. Her paintings offer glimpses into overlooked histories and speak to both personal and collective experience. Her recent exhibitions include solo shows in France and Los Angeles, and she was featured in Artsy’s list of ten emerging painters born in the 2000s.