Elena Pach

Elena Pach lives and works in Chicago. Raised in Kyiv, Ukraine, she studied art and printmaking at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Her paintings unfold between portrait, landscape, and dreamscape, returning to traditional media to explore contemporary questions of nature, memory, and belonging. Pach’s imagery evokes quiet magic and feminine alchemy—herbal knowledge, intuition, and transformation. Animals, plants, and ethereal beings become guides within her work, inhabiting surreal, tender worlds where mermaids, sirens, and hybrid creatures move gently between reality and dream.

EDUCATION
Shevchenko State Art School, Kyiv
Master of Fine Arts, 1994
National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine
Renowned for its classical foundation and cultural significance, the Academy is one of Ukraine’s leading institutions for art and architecture.
Board Member, Art Committee, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA), Chicago, IL May 2023 to (Present)
Member of Artist Union of Ukraine (1994 to Present)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Board Member, Art Committee, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA), Chicago, IL May 2023 to (Present)
Member of Artist Union of Ukraine (1994 to Present)

EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES

2025
In-House Artist, Chicago Grand Gallery, Chicago, IL (Apr – May 2025)
Bucktown Art Fair, Chicago, IL (Aug 2025)
10x10 Show, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL (Nov 2025)


2024–2025
Charitable Vision, Ukrainian Art Pop-Up, Cook County Treasurer’s Office (Maria Pappas), City Hall, Chicago, IL (Oct 2024 – Jan 2025)
Ukrainian Art Pop-Up, MAK Chicago, Chicago, IL (Oct 2024 – Jan 2025)

2024
Surreal Salon, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL (Oct 2024)
10x10 Show, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL (Nov 2024)
Alma Six, Alma Art and Interiors, Chicago, IL (Apr 2024 – Present)

2023
10x10 Show, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL (2023–2024)
The Other Art Fair, Chicago, IL (Apr 2023)

2022
Proxy Bodies, Group Exhibition, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL (Apr 8–30, 2022)