OKSANA CHEPELYK (Ukraine)
The retrospective of her video work can be viewed on
Alphabet Art Centre
Oksana Chepelyk 1978-1984 studied at the Art Institute in Kyiv, followed by a PhD course in Moscow, 1995 CIES in Paris, 1996 Amsterdam University, 1998 the New Media Study Program at the Banff Centre, Canada, 2000-2002 Bauhaus Dessau, Germany, and 2003-2004, 2010-2011 Fulbright Research Program at UCLA, USA.
Oksana Chepelyk started during her studies as a media artist amd belongs nowadays to the premier Ukrainian mediia artists – the retrospective is focussing on her status as an artist using moving images, but as Dr. Oksana Chepelyk, she is also a leading researcher of The New Technologies Department at The Modern Art Research Institute of Ukraine, author of the book “The Interaction of Architectural Spaces, Contemporary Art and New Technologies†(2009) and curator of the IFSS in Kyiv.
Residencies: 1996 CREDAC, Paris, 1998 BANFF Centre, Canada, 2001 ARTELEKU, San Sebastian, Spain, FACT, Liverpool, UK, 2000-2002 Bauhaus Dessau, Germany, 2015, DEAC, Budva, Montenegro, 2018 SAV, Tainan; Kuandu Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
1992-2021 awarded with grants in France, Germany, Spain, USA, Canada, England, Sweden, Montenegro and Taiwan. She has widely exhibited internationally: 1998 MOMA, New York, 1999 “ART FAIR†Stockholm, Sweden, 1999 Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, 2000 German Historical Museum, Berlin, 2001 Munich, Germany, 2000 ISEA, Paris, 2001 Museum of the Arts History, Vienna, Austria, 2002 “SEAFairâ€, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia, 2003, 2007, 20011 Museum of Jurassic Technologies, Los Angeles, USA, 2008 “DIGITAL MEDIA Valenciaâ€, Spain, VII Digital Art Salón, MACZUL Museum of Contemporary Art del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2009, 2010 “ArtVilniusâ€, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2010 “Sarajevo Winter†Art Biennale, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2011 Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, USA, Art Arsenal Museum, Kiev, 4th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 6th Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art, Uzbekistan (Award), 2012 1st Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art ARSENALE, MMOMA, Russia, 2013 Sarajevo Museum, Bosnia and Herzegovina, MMOMA, Russia; 2014 International Festival “Sarajevo Winter 2014”, B&H; IX ART-KYIV Contemporary, Art Arsenal National Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine; “Long Path to Freedomâ€, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA; 2015 “Decompression: Coming Up for Air†Festival “L’Ukraine – Scene libreâ€, Paris, France; “Borderline. Ukrainian Art 1985-2004â€, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv; “The File†– Electronic Language International Festival, the Sesi-SP’s Art Gallery in Centro Cultural Fiesp – Ruth Cardoso, Sao Paolo, Brazil; DEAC, Montenegro; 2016 XVII LPM Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2017 XVIII LPM Amsterdam, Netherlands; “City Code†ArtBatFest 8, Almaty, Kazakhstan; “Anonymous Societyâ€, PinchukArtCentre; 2018 2018 “Flashback. Ukrainian art of the 90thâ€, Art Arsenal Museum, Kyiv; “Meta-Physical Time-Spaceâ€, Tainan, Taiwan, “Free Dâ€, Kuandu Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; “A Space of On’s Ownâ€, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv; TiFF 2018, Soulangh Cultural Park, Tainan, Taiwan; 2019 “Falling shadow of “Mriya” on the gardens of Giardini”, Ukrainian Pavilion, Arsenal, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; “Insatiable Mind†Salisbury Arts Centre, UK; 2020 “Art+Feminismâ€, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta; XI MADATAC International Festival of a Contemporary Audio-Visual & New Media Art, Madrid, Spain; 2021 1st Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art, Artarea, Kyiv, Ukraine.
She has been working with experimental video films since 1994. Her films were shown and awarded within different film, video and new media festivals: in Kiev, New York, London, Tallinn, St. Petersburg, Osnabruck, Montecatini, Linz, Moscow, Paris, Berlin, Oberhausen, Liverpool, Belo Horizonte, Karlovy Vary and Venice /A category/, Chisinau, Weimar, Tel-Aviv, Ankara, Pesaro, Santa Fe, Stuttgart, Barcelona, Berdiansk, Sebastopol, Sarajevo and Clermont-Ferrand. From 1993 she organised 15 curatorial exhibitions (Ukraine, France, USA, Canada, Brazil, Kazakhstan and Germany), 30 solo exhibitions in Europe and America, and participated in a number of joint exhibitions (Russia, Germany, Lithuania, Ukraine, France, USA, Sweden, Croatia, Brazil, Austria, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina). 1999 A.I.D.O. FilmVideo Award, Italy. 2013 Cinemadamare Award at Venice IFF, Italy. 2003 Werklietz Award 2003 at EMAF, Osnabruck, Germany. In 2007 she has founded the International Festival of Social Sculpture in Kiev.
Awards: 1997 and 2007 ArtsLink Award and Independent Projects Award, USA. 2003, 2010 Fulbright Awards, USA. 2011 6th Tashkent Biennale Award, Uzbekistan. 2013 Artraker Award, UK. 2018 Best Project of The Year, Taiwan.
The retrospective of her video work can be viewed on
Alphabet Art Centre