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
Art has been an integral part of my life for as long as I can remember. I began with painting in early childhood, and later discovered photography – now I combine both passions to create works at the intersection of fine art and photography.
I’m drawn to the space where reality dissolves into imagination. Instead of traditional brushes, I use digital tools to reinterpret the world I capture through my camera, painting it with the colors of my inner states. My creative process is intuitive and emotional – I often start with a photograph, then layer it with digital textures, hand-drawn elements, or scanned materials to evoke a feeling rather than depict a scene.
Through my work, I explore themes of memory, transformation, and perception. I focus on everyday subjects and infuse them with new meaning by shifting their context. I seek poetry in the overlooked, and emotions in structure and form.
For me, art is a dialogue with the world – a way to express what cannot be said in words, to connect beyond logic. It’s a space where vulnerability, beauty, and mystery coexist.