OKSANA LEVCHENYA

Oksana was born in 1975 in Bershad, Vinnytsia region.

In 2001, she graduated from the Bogomolets Kyiv Medical University with a degree in surgery.

In 2005, she graduated from the School of Architectural Design in Kyiv.

In 2009, she joined Sotscapitalism Art Kyiv at the Ukrainian House, Kyiv. The head of the institution at that time was Natalia Zabolotna.

In 2012, she took part in Art Kyiv Contemporary and the Kyiv Biennale at the Mystetskyi Arsenal, which was headed by Natalia Zabolotna.

In 2014 and 2015, she joined Art Kyiv Contemporary, the Greed and Soul Searching projects respectively. The events were supported by the director of the Arsenal, Natalia Zabolotna.

In 2017, she was awarded the London Art Biennale’s Special Prize for Exceptional Excellence.

In 2017, she had a solo exhibition at Art Ukraine Gallery – “Quasi-evolution”. Natalia Zabolotna is the founder of the gallery and curator of the project.

She lives and works in Kyiv and New York.

Personal exhibitions:

Happiness, luxury gallery SadyPobedy, Odesa, Ukraine; Screenshot, Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine (2010)

Militant Feminism, FineArt Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (2011)

Great Expectations, Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (2012)

Soul Search, Bulgari, Kyiv, Ukraine; Soul Search, Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine (2016)

“Find your tribe and love it tightly”, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine; “Find your tribe and love it”, Invogue Gallery, Odesa, Ukraine. Photos, textile art, tapestries (2017)

Exhibition dedicated to the 27th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence. Gothic Hall, Brussels, Belgium; Non-existent Tribes, Bursa Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. Textile sculptures, installations, video art (2018)

Group projects:

The Torn World project, curator of the Adam Nankervis Museum of Man (2009)

Collider Art-Kyiv, Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine (2011)

Great Expectations, Gallery of Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine (2012)

Art Southampton, New York, USA; ARTPALMBEACH-2012, Miami, USA (2013)

Royal Art Prize, Find Your Tribe And Love Them Hard, London, UK; Lost&Found at Fondamenta degli Incurabili, Venice, Italy; London Biennial of Arts; “Search for the Soul”, winner. Gallery Gagliardi, London, UK (2017)

Art Laguna Prize 13th edition, exhibition of finalists. “Space Cossacks”, Arsenale, Venice, Italy; Modern_ism, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Textiles, handmade rugs (2018)

Milan Design Week, Modern_ism, Milan, Italy. Ukrainian object design; Revelations, International Biennale of Fine Arts and Creativity, Grand Paleis, Paris, France. Textiles, hand weaving, tapestries, objects (2019)

Art Fashion Days, Avangard Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (2021)

Currently, the artist’s works of several series are exhibited at Art Ukraine Gallery.

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