Renee Kuharchuk is a painter and teacher living and working in the Chicagoland area. Her work captures close-up portraiture that experiments with dynamic brushwork and abstract colors. Through painting the human form, she explores themes of feminism and the human experience. As a woman, her practice not only brings these issues to light, but creates a space for self-healing and, on a broader scope, awareness of our inner battles.

Kuharchuk works with the local non profit – IHSAE, the Illinois High School Art Exhibition, as their assistant gallery director, whose goal is to amplify student work through exhibitions in Chicago and work to advocate for creativity through art recruitment.

Kuharchuk’s work has been recently on display at the Salem Art Gallery in Massachusetts, and Jackson Junge Gallery in Chicago.