Viktoriia Kolesnykova

Viktoriia Kolesnykova (ArtDeseo) is a Ukrainian contemporary artist working across botanical and figurative painting. Her practice explores the relationship between nature, the body and the inner world, with a focus on resilience, vulnerability, identity and transformation.
Her botanical work moves between precise botanical studies and large-scale, sensual interpretations of flowers. Her ongoing series The Intimacy Series: Contemporary Sensual Botany explores the flower as a tactile landscape of desire, touch and feminine sensuality. Alongside botanical painting, her figurative works examine the human inner world through the female figure, exploring states of vulnerability, strength and change.
Working primarily in acrylic and watercolor, Kolesnykova combines careful observation with expressive, psychologically charged imagery. Her work has been exhibited in Ukraine and internationally and is held in private collections.
She is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA), the Association of British Botanical Artists (ABA), and the Association of Ukrainian Botanical Artists (SUBA)

Botanical painting course by the famous Ukrainian artist Ekateryna Spirtus

2D Render from A to Z
course by ArtCraft

The course "Illustration. Intensive" at the Academy of Visual Arts Kharkiv, taught by Konstantin Zorkin

Studying in the creative studio of Kharkiv artist and teacher of the Kharkiv Academy of Arts - Oleg Stanichnyi

National Aerospace University
Master's degree in engineering.
Computer programming

SOLO EXHIBITION
2026
I Thought They Were Just Flowers — Kremenchuk City Art Gallery, Ukraine
2025
”I Choose Life”, Natalia Yuzefovych Art Gallery, Kremencuk, Ukraine

GROUP EXHIBITION
2026
“Fifth Spring”, Pavlo Tychyna Dniprovs’kyi Library, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Formulas of Antifragility”, Pavlo Tychyna Dniprovs’kyi Library, Kyiv, Ukraine
International Watercolor Exhibition "ULTRA RED",Vernissage Cultural Center, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
"Unadorned", Meta-senses gallery. Gallery of Ukrainian contemporary art
"Zone de gel", Kremenchuk City Gallery, Kremenchuk, Ukraine
2025
28th Annual Exhibition, Marin Art & Garden Center, Ross, CA, USA
BAWW 2025 "Diversity of agricultural crops in Ukraine", The National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine.
"Between Worlds",  National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv, Ukraine 
"Inspiration", Association of Botanical Artists
”Florentime”, Faculty of Fine and Graphic Arts, Ushynsky University, Odesa, Ukraine
”Blooming”, Kaş Sanatevi, Kash, Turkey
«United by Watercolours», Odesa Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Odesa, Ukraine
”Spring Symposium 2025” Virtual Exhibition, American Society of Botanical Artists.
“Temporarily here” Meta-senses gallery. Ga...