ART AS A PRAYER FOR OUR PLANET
Bio
Ekaterina Sky is a Slavic Canadian visual artist based in Los Angeles whose practice explores the relationship between humanity, spirituality, and the natural world. Working across painting, muralism, installation, and socially engaged practice, she creates contemplative works that invite viewers to reflect on their role as stewards of the Earth.
Over the past two decades, Sky has developed an artistic language that bridges aesthetic experience with collective responsibility. Her projects have been presented internationally, including large-scale public works in India, Los Angeles, and Borneo, and her work has appeared in cultural and environmental contexts such as COP30 in Brazil and Carnegie Hall in New York.
Sky is the founder of Prayer for the Earth, an ongoing series of watercolor and 24K sustainable gold leaf paintings that transcribe a universal prayer for the planet into visual form. Each work functions as both artwork and contemplative space: viewers are invited to pause with the painting and listen to the Universal Prayer for the Planet through a discreet embedded audio element. In murals and community projects, participants contribute written intentions that are sealed into the work with gold, transforming the artwork into a shared act of reflection and care for the living world.
Through this evolving practice, Sky advances the idea of impact art; art that serves not only as aesthetic expression but as a catalyst for ecological awareness, collective authorship, and hope for the future of the planet.
“Creating Harmony Through Art”
Artist Statement
My practice explores how art can function as a site of responsibility within contemporary culture. I am interested in the capacity of aesthetic experience to slow perception, invite contemplation, and reframe our relationship with the living world.
Working primarily in watercolor and 24K sustainable gold leaf, I approach painting as a disciplined dialogue with material and time. Watercolor demands sustained attentiveness; each gesture is irreversible, leaving a visible record of presence and decision. Gold functions not as ornament but as a structural element—sealing text into the surface while invoking value, permanence, and historical continuity.
The Prayer for the Earth series centers on a single universal prayer for the planet, transcribed directly into the visual field of the painting. Language is embedded within the composition and sealed in gold, dissolving the boundary between text, image, and surface. The prayer is not illustrative; it operates as a conceptual foundation that situates the work between contemplation and proposition.
Each painting is conceived as a point of reflection. Through a discreet embedded audio element, viewers can listen to the Universal Prayer for the Planet directly from the artwork, extending the experience beyond the visual and allowing the painting to function as a contemplative encounter.
Alongside the studio practice, I develop participatory structures through murals and collective inscription processes. Community members contribute written intentions that are physically integrated into the work and sealed in gold, extending authorship beyond the individual artist. These gestures transform the artwork into a shared act of reflection while maintaining formal rigor.
I define impact art not as a genre but as a methodology one that recognizes aesthetic production as inseparable from ecological and cultural consequence. My work asks how visual language can move beyond representation to become an active agent in shaping collective imagination and responsibility toward the Earth.
Impact Art
Resume
EKATERINA SKY
Location: Los Angeles, California
Profession: Visual Artist · Muralist · Public Speaker · Environmentalist
Email: artist@ekaterina-sky.com
Website: www.ekaterina-sky.com
SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Raw Earth – Sky Portal X Gallery, Los Angeles
Ritual of Renewal – Sky Portal X Gallery, Los Angeles
Whisperers of the Earth – Art Share LA, Los Angeles
Beverly Hills Art Show, Los Angeles
2024
Prayer for the Earth – Seshine Art Gallery, Encinitas, CA
Sky Portal X Gallery, Los Angeles
Coral Gables Museum – Miami Art Week, Miami
SAB Gallery – International Women’s Day & Female Art Night, Los Angeles
Pershing Art Space, Los Angeles
Selected Earlier Exhibitions (2009–2018)
Animalize – Solo Exhibition, Montreal
Never Apart Gallery, Montreal
Visual Arts Centre, Montreal
Les Belles et Les Bêtes, Montreal
PUBLIC ART & MURALS
2025
Prayer for the Earth – Altadena, California
2024
Eden Forest Collective – Los Angeles, California
The Divine Gift – Mar Vista, California
2023
Life Force Mural Tour – Borneo & Bali, Indonesia; Burning Man, USA
2020
Movement: Paint City Peaceful – Black Lives Matter Mural, Los Angeles
2019–2020
Animalize Mural Tour – India, Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, USA
PERFORMANCES & LIVE WORK
Prayer for the Earth – Life Force Loft & Gold Meditation Center, Los Angeles (2024–2025)
Uprise – Zebulon, Los Angeles (2025)
Interactive Painting – Echo Park, Los Angeles (ongoing)
TALKS & PUBLIC SPEAKING
COP30 (United Nations) – Forests of The World
Peace for Youth- Carnegie Hall – Forests of The World
Sostenidónos: Benefit Art Gala – Featured Speaker, Los Angeles (2025)
LA Climate Week – Opening Ceremony, Featured Speaker (2025)
Raw Earth Opening Ceremony – Sky Portal X Gallery (2025)
Uprise for Climate Action – Artist Talk, Zebulon LA (2025)
EDUCATION
Apollon Art Studio, Florence, Italy
Old Masters Techniques, 2025
University of San Francisco, USA
Certificate in Public Leadership, 2025
John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
B.A. International Business, 2012–2015
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Studio, Israel
Painting & Drawing, 2006–2009
Yaroslavl Art School, Russia
Classical Art & Art History, 2003–2006
COMMUNITY & LEADERSHIP
Impact Art Program Director, LA Climate Week (2025)
Founder, LA Creative Artists (25+ events, 2024–2025)
Host, Artful Impact Talk Series (2024–ongoing)
Fellow, Elected Officials Protect America (EOPA)