Olga Skorokhod

Olga passionate about art ever since she was a kid. She feels like she was born to be an artist. The choice of profession was obvious to her.
Olga formerly worked as an illustrator, graphic designer and she painted photorealistic portraits on commission  before turning to full-time paper artist. 
Skorokhod experimented with different techniques and materials while she was in Ukraine in hopes of finding her own art style in which she could constantly develop and be recognized worldwide. But it wasn’t until she completely stepped out of her comfort zone and moved to the U.S. that she eventually found it.
Art is necessary for Olga. It’s like breathing. You can’t live without oxygen, so Olga can’t live without art. She craved to create. Since Olga had a small budget and couldn’t afford paint and canvas, she started working with the most affordable printer paper. It turns out paper was exactly what Olga has been looking for because she always liked monochromatic high textured artworks, and cutting by hand was a form of healing meditation for her. "If you are a professional artist and you have a sense of destiny to create, then you can make a piece of art from anything. It doesn't matter what materials and tools to use." That is how O...

2004 – 2010 Master’s Degree with Honors of Fine Arts and Decorative and Applied Arts at the NTUU KPI in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Majored in graphic art/printed product design.

GROUP SHOWS 2019

Art FTLfair ArtCURATED by Lisa Rockford, Fort Lauderdale, FL

2018

Pushing Paper, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

THE LA ART SHOW, MODERN + CONTEMPORARY, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA

2017

SMALL WORKS, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY

Representational Abstract, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2017 Annual Member’s Show for UVAA Artist Members, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR

Paper Works, Fort Works Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX (Paper Works ​will be shown in conjunction with ​Tropism, ​a solo exhibition by installation artist Crystal Wagner)

Spectrum Gestalt 4, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

6x6x2017, RoCo (Rochester Contemporary Art Center), Rochester, NY

2017 mon-o-chrome, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

Blue Show, Core New Art Space, Denver, CO

The Seventh Annual ArtWorks Northwest, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR

Art On Paper, MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD

Outside the Box, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Water and Sky, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

A Radical Light, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR

2016

Artists draw. Requirements: A4, ballpoint pen, at the Karas Gallery - Kyiv, Ukraine (catalog)
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