Oxana Kovalchuk

Oxana Kovalchuk is a mixed media visual artist, MFA at SVA NYC, 2019. In 2022, Kovalchuk had two solo shows in NYC: “Roots” (Kente Royal Gallery) and “Making Fools Pray to God” (Gallery 456). The both exhibitions showed an essence of Kovalchuk’s artistic journey – her delve into the intersection of world events and human reaction to them. She explores cultural shifts and human spirit through her own experience.Kovalchuk has participated in an array of group shows in the USA and internationally: Summer Exhibition 2023 at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art (Wausau, WI), “Stories from my Childhood” (Museum of Art, Northern Illinois University, 2022-2023), Art x Climate Fifth National Climate Assessment (Washington DC), “Absurdity” (Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL), “Ethnicity through the Eyes of the Artists” (Abington Art Center, Jenkintown PA), “PaperWork9” (Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson NY), “Lost / Found” (Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven CT), “Perfect Day: Drugs and Art” (White Box Gallery, NYC, 2021), “America the Beautiful: The Real and The Imagined” (Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, 2021), Intimists 7 “From Earth to Sky” (La Fenice Gallery, Hong Kong, China, 2020), “Dialogue with artists in Northeast China” (Lankai Art Gallery, Anshan City, China, 2020), to name a few.Among Kovalchuk’s forthcoming projects there is an exhibition “Home - Security/Insecurity” in NJ, an international show organized by the National Climate Assessment, and the artist residency, Kunstraum.In 2021, Oxana Kovalchuk’s artwork “Diary of Memory” was purchased for the collection of Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NYC by its founder and curator Yoko Nii.Born in Kazakhstan, Kovalchuk had been in search of her ‘perfect place’ - she lived in four countries and visited even more. Her two-year stay in UK impacted her mindset and influenced her later lifestyle. In Europe, Kovalchuk adhered to critical thinking and discovered the diverse European culture. She feels now settled in NYC - the city where she studied art.Self-reflection and self-identity are the key themes to Kovalchuk’s art. Having been a resident of four countries, Kovalchuk is familiar with mental, psychological, and social challenges of immigration. Oxana Kovalchuk efficiently combines her artist career, family life, and motherhood. Her children is her inspiration.

A cacophony of memories and feelings, an immigrants’ adaptability, cultural shifts, and power of the human spirit are the key threads I’m pursuing as an artist. Via mixed media experiences, my work explores the relationship between myself and my life journey of a 'legal alien' through four countries. The fascination with the limitations of life led me to pursue a degree in psychology that now an underlying factor in my art. I incorporate my psychological knowledge into my creative process to introspect my artwork concept from different angles. As an artist, I also try to show connections between inner and outer worlds. Mixed media techniques allow me to add layers that are not exclusively physical but also metaphorical: our feelings and senses are not flat, time is not linear, a way of thinking is not straight-forward but more layered and curved.

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