Olena Morozova

My name is Olena Morozova.
I am visual multidisciplinary artist born in Kyiv. In 2002 I was graduated from Kyiv National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. Since 2015, I have been engaged in artistic practice, working with photography, collage, drawing, sculpture, installation; exploring social themes, topics of gender and self-identity, family relationships, stereotypes, psychological and mental disorder. Since 2022 I am living and working between Poland and Ukraine.

My works were exhibited in Fotodok, Netherlands (2023), Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Georgia (2023), Southern Utah Museum of Art (2022), Walker Art Gallery, USA (2022), Encontros da Imagem (2022), Rybnik Photo Festival (2022), Łódź Fotofestiwal (2022,2023,2024), Finnish Museum of Photography (2022), Copenhagen Photo Festival (2022), Odesa Photo Days (2021), Photo Kyiv Fair (2020, 2019), were published in International Artdoc Magazine, Conbini Art (France), FotoNostrum Magazine (Spain), Vogue (Italy), Politiken (Denmark), Liberation (France), EESTI NAINE (Estonia), Positive.News (England), STERN (German), took (Gold, Silver, Bronze) prizes in international photo awards.
I am FRESH EYES TELENT 2023, member of Futures Photography Platform, MYPH Community.

Education
2024 – Katya Lesiv, course "Book’s Body"
2024 – Dimitri Bogachuk’s, course "Coloristics III"
2023 – Katya Syta “Analogue Collage” course
2023 – Dimitri Bogachuk’s, course "Mentoring Program"
2021 – "Re-framing my body" by Kateryna Radchenko, Sybrig Dokter, Hanna Wildow
2021 – Chekachkov Photo Academy
2021 – SKVOT, "Contemporary Art", course by Lisa German&Masha Lanko
2021 – Kateryna Radchenko, course “Storytelling in photography”
2021 – Victor Maruschenko’s photo school, deep course
2020 – School of conceptual and art photography MYPH, Ukraine
2020 – SKVOT, course “Creative training”, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020 – Roman Pyatkovka, course "Conceptual photography"
2019 – Dimitri Bogachuk’s, course "Coloristics I", "Coloristics II"
2019 – Viktoria Sorochinski, “From Portrait to Narrative" workshop
2019 – Vladimir Seleznev, "Development of visual perception" workshop
2018 – Aleksandr Yakimchuk, course "Art photography"
2017 – "Photostudyme", photography school, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 – Studio 1, photography school, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 – Vivat, photography school, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 – Privat Art School Vasilenko, Kyiv, Ukraine
2002 – National Pedagogical University named by Dragomanov, Kyiv, Ukraine

Residences
2024 – Martin Roth-Initiativ...

Solo Exhibitions
2024 – “Granny”, Insight Photo Festival, Varese, Italy
2024 – “Granny”, “I Knew She Would Never Have Children”, Kut-Reading Room, Kyiv,
Ukraine
2023 – “Granny”, Open Studio in La Becque Art Residency, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
2022 – “Granny”, Rybnikfotofestival, the 19th edition, Poland
2022 – “I Knew She Would Never Have Children”, Musem of Polish Sculpture Center,
Poland
2022 – “Never ended journey”, Mazowieckie Center of Contemporary Arts “Elektrownia”,
Radom, Poland
2022 – “Granny”, Copenhagen Photo Festival 2022, Denmark
2022 – “Granny”, Mungo Park Teater, Allerød, Denmark