Oleg Omelchenko

Oleg Omelchenko is a Kharkiv-based artist, who actively experiments in the field of easel and monumental painting, and graphic techniques. His style is based on fusion of traditional and innovative approaches, defined by high demands toward the artistic mastery. The artists aspires to present timeless existential problems through the prism of contemporary life. Visual language of his works refers to Oleg’s background as a monumental painter, allowing him to achieve profoundness and balance between aesthetical and conceptual sides of the projects

Oleg Omelchenko has been an active participant of local, All-Ukrainian and international shows since 2001. The member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and one of the founders of Mezhaart group (2009).Currently works as the lecturer at the drawing department of Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts and an applicant for completes his PhD thesis.

2005
MFA in Monumental-decorative painting, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2000
Kharkiv National Art College, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Selected exhibitions

2019 “Portrait now 2019” Denmark, Copenhagen, special prize laureate “Semper Ardens”

2018 4th International Ex Libris Exhibition Skopje, Macedonia

2018 COW 2018 Illustration Biennale, Dnepr
2018 XIII International exlibris competition EX Libris – Ex Littera, Ruse, Bulgaria
2017 XII International exlibris competition EX Libris – Ex Libertas, Ruse, Bulgaria
2017 International exlibris competition Solstizio d Estate, Bosia, Italy