Iryna Manukovska (b. 1984, Ukraine) is a Cyprus-based interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of mental health, cognition, and social cohesion. Her practice combines analytical methodology with intuitive expression, using abstract oil painting, open-ended essays, immersive installations, workshops, and dance performance as interconnected tools for the same inquiry. Trained in applied systems analysis at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute before turning to painting, she builds large-scale oil-on-canvas works — 60 to 200 cm in thick impasto — in which the sky functions as both a formal source and an umbrella metaphor.

Forced and voluntary migration is a generational thread in her work. Her grandmother survived the Holocaust, and she has been studying displacement through survival diaries and interviews for over a decade. Her practice spans the long-running Questions to Move You Forward series; the Newborns of Ukrainian War project (2022); the UNESCO Seeds of Culture commission (Malta, 2022, acquired by UNESCO Malta); and Questioning Darkness, developed during a 2025 residency at the Spitsbergen Artist Center, Svalbard.

Manukovska co-founded the Paphos Women Artists Union in 2022 and is an ICF-certified coach. Alongside her studio practice, she has facilitated flow-state workshops since 2022 for displaced Ukrainian communities and STEM professionals — investigating how abstract visual work supports those whose navigational systems have been disrupted. Her work is held in private and institutional collections across Cyprus, Ukraine, Spain, France, Malta, and Norway.