Olha Vlasova
Artist
Olha Vlasova was born in 1994 in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. From an early age, she showed a strong interest in drawing and graduated from art school.
In 2010, she entered the Luhansk College of Culture and Arts, majoring in Painting. In 2014, her hometown and the city where she studied were occupied, so she completed her studies in Zhytomyr.
In 2015, she entered the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative-Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boychuk, where she studied Decorative and Applied Arts. During her studies, she worked in the art field, including as part of the team creating the full-length animated film Viktor Robot.
In 2019, she graduated from the Academy with honors and founded her own online shop, where she created commissioned portraits and paintings.
Since 2024, she has been working on her own original painting series and actively developing her artistic career. She currently works in the genre of Neo-Romanticism, combining her academic art education with contemporary visual elements. In her work, she celebrates beauty, femininity, and the desire to aestheticize everyday life.
Her works are held in private collections in the USA, the United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Switzerland, Finland, Austria, Canada, and Ukraine.
EDUCATION
2015 - 2019
Boychuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts/ Specialization 'Decorative and applied arts artist'(Kyiv, Ukraine)
2010 - 2014
College of Luhansk State Academy of Culture and Arts, Specialization 'Fine arts'(Luhansk, Ukraine)
2014 - 2015
College of Culture and Arts named after Ivan Ohiienko, Specialization 'Fine arts'(Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
2003 - 2010
Fine Art School(Makiivka, Ukraine)
EXHIBITIONS
2026
2025
Metamorphosis: Women and Spring Awakening(Zofingen, Switzerland)
2024
Charity exhibition at the Mariupol reborn platform(Lviv, Ukraine)
Autumn and cats(Odessa, Ukraine)
2023
Flower paradise(Lviv, Ukraine)
2022
In Ukraine(Ljubljana, Slovenia)
2018
Students' exhibition(Kyiv, Ukraine)
2013
Winner of the students' exhibition 'Autumn still-life'(Luhansk, Ukraine)
OTHER PROJECTS
2021
Frame-by-frame animation painter for the feature-length animated film Victor Robot. Kyiv, Ukraine
2019
Took part in creating the animated video 'Different language, different perspective' for the French Institute in Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS
2023
Magazine 'Artwork Gallery' – Magazine Issue 1. Woman faces.
Artist statement
In my work, I practice an intense attentiveness to beauty. I notice it, elevate it, and almost canonize it, making it the central figure of my paintings.
All of my works are created from a close perspective to emphasize the physical presence and tactility of the image. This composition concentrates the viewer’s attention on a single feeling, preventing it from dispersing into surrounding noise.
My paintings feel suspended in time: they are contemporary, yet they also pay homage to classical, academic, and Renaissance painting traditions of the old masters.
In a world marked by uncertainty, wars, and destruction — where survival often seems more urgent than aesthetics — I create space for beauty within my canvases, allowing it to unfold without limitation. Femininity in my work is hyperbolized, sensual, and grand. Here, it has its place.
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