Although the word miso is meaningful in many contexts, in the art world it’s the name of a vibrant twenty-one year old Australian street artist, based in Melbourne, who also answers to Stanislava Pinchuk.

Miso is a fine artist / street artist from Ukraine living in Melbourne many years moving from being a predominantly paste up artist with Ghostpatrol into gallery work and her signature ‘needle point’ constellations, charts and maps

May 17, 2010 · Miso’s street art in Melbourne is some of the most stunning graffiti I’ve seen. Can you even call this graffiti? Proof that there is so, so much beauty in the everyday.

Jo Higgins talks to artist Stanislava Pinchuk, also known by her pseudonym Miso, about her heartbreak over the civil war in her Ukrainian homeland, a pain that is meticulously and beautifully mapped in her recent pinhole works.

For the avid traveler, the exploration of street art provides a unique lens through which one can experience a city. The transient nature of this medium encourages a deep dive into the local culture, offering a tangible immediacy that luxury hotels or planned tours might miss.

While her art practice began in the form of stencilling and street art, Miso has spent the last few years making data maps of changing topographies in war zones and nuclear exclusion zones. She then creates large, delicate maps meticulously pin-pricked into paper.

May 30, 2011 · Miso is well known for her beautifully placed, delicately drawn paste-ups on city walls, such as this:

Home to well known and upcoming street artists like Anthony Lister, MISO, Kid Zoom and Creepy, Australia contributes a distinctive voice to a developing school and vocabulary.

Miso, also known as Stanislava Pinchuk, was born in 1988 in Ukraine. She is known for her street art and tattoos she does for her friends.

The NGV purchased prominent Melbourne street artist, Miso’s ‘Walking to all my friends’ houses in the world I’ in 2013 following her residency at the NGV in 2012 where her works featured in the Crossbar Café.