Oksana Berda

Oksana Berda is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. Her work explores the act of transformation through material, gesture, and story. Working with canvas and clay, she examines how touch, repetition, and process can hold memory and reveal a deeper sense of belonging.

Her ongoing body of work, New Alchemy, merges painting, sculpture, and writing to explore the cycles of erosion and renewal found in both nature and the human experience. Each piece reflects a conversation between body and landscape, a meditation on change, devotion, and repair.

With a background in literature and creative writing, Oksana approaches abstraction as a form of lyrical language, where image, text, and texture intertwine. Her practice extends into installation and participatory projects that invite viewers to slow down, listen, and inhabit the space between the real and the imagined.

Master of Arts in Creative Writing from University of New Brunswick, 2010-2012

Bachelor of Art in English Language and Literature from Brock University, 2006-2010

EXHIBITIONS
Youngplace Artscape, Toronto, 2025
Get Noticed, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, 2024
Blue Space Gallery, Digital Exhibition, 2024
Artist Project, Untapped, 2024, Toronto, ON
Festival of Smalls, Art Interiors, Group Exhibition, 2018-2020, Toronto, ON Driftwood, Group Exhibition, 2020, Toronto, ON
Cedar Ridge Gallery, Contemporary Exhibitions, 2018. Toronto, ON Souvenir Studios, Solo Show, 2018. Toronto, ON
Neilson Park Creative Center, Emerging Artist Exhibition, 2017.
Toronto, ON

RESIDENCIES
Short-listed for Cedar Ridge Summer Residency, 2025 Self-directed Residency, Paris, 2022
Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island, 2021

NOTABLE PROJECTS
The Hyatt Toronto Corridors (select painting installed), 2021 Conceptual Artwork for Anglepoise (poetry book), 2018-2021

INSTALLATIONS
Wychwood Barns, Eternal Garden, 2025
Toronto Public Library Pape/Danforth Installation, 2017. Toronto, ON Kit and Ace Installation, 2017. Toronto, ON