Si Golraine is a Ukrainian-born multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Working across painting, sound, performance, and immersive installation, her practice explores energy, consciousness, and healing through ritual, embodiment, and expanded states of awareness.
Raised in eastern Ukraine, Golraine began her creative path at the age of six, studying classical piano for eleven years at a conservatory-level music school—training that continues to inform the rhythmic and intuitive nature of her visual work. After receiving a Future Leaders Exchange scholarship, she relocated to the U.S., eventually moving to New York to study interdisciplinary arts. Her path became self-directed in response to the war in Ukraine and its impact on her family.
Golraine’s material curiosity led her through sculpture, wood carving, and metal oxidation before arriving at her current medium: painting with raw electricity on titanium. Through a process of altering the metal’s molecular structure with high-voltage current, she creates color fields that vibrate at the edge of visibility—channeling elemental forces into visual, sonic, and energetic form. Her work draws from esoteric traditions, frequency healing, and quantum theory, engaging matter as a living, vibrational system.
She is the recipient of a Staten Island Arts Grant and the international Creative Climate Award, where her work was awarded first prize by a panel that included Stanford University. Her work has been shown with Visionary Projects (NYC), Red 225 (Nashville), and Human Impact Institute, among others. She has been a lead artist in the SOHO COVID-19 Open Air Mural Project, and a longtime collaborator with International Culture Lab, where she co-produced immersive theater experiences and healing-based performance workshops. Her practice has been featured in Staten Island Advance and Artisans & Trade.
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Creative Climate Awards, Human Impact Institute, New York City, NY
2024
Know Thyself, Red 225, Nashville, TN
2023
While We Are Dreaming, Visionary Projects, New York City, NY
2022
New Contemporaries, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Distant/Memory, Visionary Projects, New York City, NY
Selected Residencies & Projects
PASS Residency, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, 2019
Ritual Cabaret, International Culture Lab, Brooklyn, NY, 2019–2024
SOHO COVID-19 Pandemic Open Air Art Project, Manhattan, NY, 2020
Selected Press
“From war-torn Ukraine to New York: An artist’s journey of healing and enlightenment through electric art”, Priya Shahi, Staten Island Advance, 2024
“Everything Is A Canvas :: Si Golraine”, Stephen Obisanya, Artisans & Trade, 2022
“Soho’s plywood protest art”, Virag Monlar, Public Seminar, 2020
“Happy Juneteenth From the Streets of SoHo Overtaken by Artists”, Katya Kazbe, Supamodu, 2020
Education
College of Staten Island, CUNY, Staten Island, NY
September 2013 – March 2014
Regional College of Arts & Culture, Luhansk, Ukraine
September 2010 – March 2013
Awards & Grants
Creative Climate Award – First Prize, Human Impact Institute, 2025
Premier Grant, Staten Island Arts, 2025
Gold Level President’s Volunteer Service Award, awarded by President Barack Obama, The White House, Washington, D.C., 2012