BIO
Oksana Omelchuk
Oksana Omelchuk is a visual artist, architecture and fine art photographer, based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Multiply award-winner at international photography contests.
Oksana started her studies at the Kyiv School of Photography in 2021 and since then it has become her life’s work.
Art educational: Kyiv School of Photography, Ukraine, Form Photo Academy, Paris, France.
Having a master’s degree in Economic, experience in journalism and PR, this can be applied in the photo field, but in reverse: the photo is not an illustration now, but the main message, supplemented by storytelling.
Her love of fine art and 6 years of experience in art school helps Oksana to combine photography and art and create artworks that blur the line between reality and fantasy. Her focus is on evoking emotions and philosophical depth in everyday scenes, inviting the viewer to engage both heart and mind.
Oksana’s artworks have been in prominent publications like VOGUE Italia, ARTDOC Photography Magazine, FotoNostrum Magazine, the book “100 Contemporary Ukrainian Photographers” by French publishing Form.Paris, exhibited in Kiev, Ukraine, Barcelona, Spain, Paris and Strasbourg, France and are in private collections in Ukraine, France and USA.
CV
Visual artist, architecture and fine art photographer.
Kyiv, Ukraine.
EDUCATION
2023-2024 – Form Photo Academy, Paris, France.
2021-2023 – Kyiv School of Photography, Ukraine.
2000-2005 – Adm. Makarov National Shipbuilding University, Ukraine (the degree of Master of Economic Sciences, specialty – “Enterprise Economics”).
AWARDS
2024 – Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) – Silver Winner in Professional category Nature/Flowers (series “The Garden of My Tenderness”).
2024 – Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) – Silver Winner in Professional category Nature/Flowers (series “Flowers for Phoenix”), 2 Honorable Mention (series “The Garden of My Tenderness”, series “Controlled Geometry”, series “MATRIX”).
2024 – Neutral Density Awards (ND Awards) – 2-nd Place and Silver Star (series “The Garden of My Tenderness”), 2 Honorable Mention (series “Controlled Geometry”, series “Flowers for Phoenix”), in Professional categories.
Visual artist, architecture and fine art photographer.
Kyiv, Ukraine.
EDUCATION
2023-2024 – Form Photo Academy, Paris, France.
2021-2023 – Kyiv School of Photography, Ukraine.
2000-2005 – Adm. Makarov National Shipbuilding University, Ukraine (the degree of Master of Economic Sciences, specialty – “Enterprise Economics”).
AWARDS
2024 – Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) – Silver Winner in Professional category Nature/Flowers (series “The Garden of My Tenderness”).
2024 – Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) – Silver Winner in Professional category Nature/Flowers (series “Flowers for Phoenix”), 2 Honorable Mention (series “The Garden of My Tenderness”, series “Controlled Geometry”, series “MATRIX”).
2024 – Neutral Density Awards (ND Awards) – 2-nd Place and Silver Star (series “The Garden of My Tenderness”), 2 Honorable Mention (series “Controlled Geometry”, series “Flowers for Phoenix”), in Professional categories.
Artist Statement
Painting has been my love since childhood, as long as I can remember, I have always drawn, my passion for photography came a little later, and now I’m trying to combine my two favourite things together, creating works at the intersection of fine art and photography.
I am interested in blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, so I replaced wooden brushes with electronic ones and paint the reality that I capture through photography with the colors of my mood.
In my works I focus on conveying states and emotions, searching for philosophical meaning in seemingly ordinary things. This is my way of communicating with the outside world.