Olga Mun is an award-winning contemporary British painter based in Manchester. Her practice moves between abstraction and figuration to explore embodiment, displacement, and the mythic feminine within contemporary visual culture.

Born in the former Soviet Union and shaped by Iranian, Russian, and East Asian cultural influences, Mun’s work investigates hybridity and the psychic terrain of migration, using painting as a method to navigate identity, history, and transformation. Having lived across contrasting cultural contexts - from the Far East to Iran and the UK -she draws on these lived experiences to question belonging, language, and the feminine condition within global modernity.

Drawing on mythological, feminist, and psychoanalytic frameworks, her expressive canvases balance gestural intensity with emotional depth, articulating the tension between materiality and transcendence. Mun’s practice positions painting as a form of embodied resistance to digital and political disembodiment, where gesture and colour become acts of reclaiming presence.

She has exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy of Arts (2023), Beep 2024, Comme Ca Art, and The Lowry Hotel, with solo shows at One Creechurch Place. Her work is held in the Howden Art Collection, London. Awards include The AXA Art Prize UK (2023) and multiple scholarships from The Haworth Charitable Trust.