Oksana Ohapkina

Oksana absorbed Eastern and Ukrainian cultures. This is a powerful foundation on which she reveals her creativity. Her own interpretation of the acquired skills and abilities in fine arts helps her realize her ideas and original perception of the world in paintings, as she has her own unusual view of nature and people. She has a penchant for simplicity of forms at the expense of deep philosophical and emotional content. The ability to see and depict the essence of things is based on personal perception and spiritual individuality. She was born in 1970 in Central Asia, Turkmenistan. She spent her youth in Kyrgyzstan, where she graduated from the Polytechnic Institute in Bishkek. At that time, the specialty was new "Electronic computing machines, complexes and systems". She worked as a programmer for more than 20 years, where the last 10 years were international companies LUXSOFT, DELL, Deutsche Bank. In 2014, she picked up a brush and paints for the first time and discovered the magical world of art. It fascinated me so much that I began to study the history of art, get acquainted with the work of artists, attend master classes, take courses, and study painting. Tried different techniques, experimented with materials, most of all I like to work in oil and dry pastel. She is attracted by contrast and colors, simplicity and monochrome, conciseness, rhythm, elements of national clothing and ceramics. The source of inspiration is travel and flowers. With the beginning of the war in 2022, she switched to the dry pastel technique and began to paint flowers. In this difficult time, only flowers give strength to live and work, love and create.

EXHIBITIONS (PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS) 2023 Flower Extravaganza" Dunaivtsi Museum of History and Local Lore, Dunaivtsi, Ukraine 2022 "Magic flowers", Mystetskyi coffee shop, Volodymyrska 76, Kyiv, Ukraine 2022 “Memory Cells”, Dunaivtsi Museum of History and Local History, Dunaivtsi, Ukraine 2021 "WOMEN OF THE WORLD", art gallery in the public space of the Women's Polyclinic of the Maternity Hospital No. 3, Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 Oksana Okhapkina: "My Way", Globus Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine EXHIBITION ACTIVITIES (GROUP EXHIBITIONS) 2023 "Shevchenko's word is a modern weapon", National Museum of Literature of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2022 "Kherson region is Ukraine", Artist's House, Kyiv, Ukraine 2022 "Free Ukraine", Sikorsky Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2022 Art project “Against war: ART is victory”, Kyiv, Ukraine, Globus shopping center (Maidan Nezalezhnosti 1) 2021 Festival of Contemporary Ukrainian Art "INDEPENDENCE", Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine, 08/10/2021 - 08/24/2021 2021 "ART EVERYWHERE", festival of contemporary Ukrainian art, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 2020 "Traces" art project, festival of modern Ukrainian art, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 2020 "Different-X", International online project, Kyiv History Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 "Mystery of Feelings", Sikorsky Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 "Place of inspiration", Art in public space, Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 "All the colors of the world, Turkey", Artist's House, Kyiv, Ukraine 2019 "All the colors of the world, Slovakia", Artist's House, Kyiv, Ukraine 2018 "All the colors of the world, Turkey", Artist's House, Kyiv, Ukraine 2018 45th International Congress on the Management of Vestibular Disorders, Kyiv, Ukraine

2020 Course: MoMA "In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting", Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, confirmed by certificate 2020 Course: MoMA "Modern Art & Ideas", Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, confirmed by certificate 2019 Course: CEH.1-ENx: European Paintings: From Leonardo to Rembrandt to Goya, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain, confirmed by certificate 2019 ArtCraft International School of Computer Graphics and Drawing 1994 Kyrgyz Technical University, Bishkek