Oksana was born in 1969 in Ilyichevsk city (Odessa district), Ukraine.
She graduated from Ilyichevsk School of Arts in 1986 and earned an M.B. from the Grekov Odessa State Art School in 1992. As a working artist, she earned a bachelor of philosophy degree from the Odessa State University named after Mechnikov I.I in 2003. Oksana lives and works in Odessa.


Solo Exhibitions (selected):

2011
Post-vs-Proto-Renaissance Project in Ukrainian Pavilion. 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2011.

2010
Helium-3, Aidan Gallery, Moscow

Casamor Foundation, the Museo Dali and in the Rambla de Figueras,
Figueras, Spain

Spheres of Good and Spiritual Reneissance, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Kyiv,
Ukraine

Helium-3, Art Center, Odessa

Ukrainian Contemporary Art in NY, by Mironova Gallery, New York

2009
When Stars Align, Zorya Fine Art, New York

2008
Unique Sides of Routine, Mimesis Gallery, Geneve

MAS.Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia

2007
Hired to Dream. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

2006
Point of assemblage. T.Ladyzhinskaya Gallery.Odessa, Ukraine

Infanta. Da Vinci Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine

Jaguar’s valve. Arena “City”. Kiev, Ukraine

2005
Epidermis’s phenomenon. “Karas” Gallery

2004
Oksana Mas. Paintings. Aidan Gallery. Moscow, Russia

Black/white reverse. IRIS Gallery. Barcelona, Spain

2003
Oksana Mas. Museum of Western-Eastern art. Ukraine

Everyday originality. Exhibition hall of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
Kiev, Ukraine.

Oksana Mas. Center of Contemporary art “Soviart”. Kiev, Ukraine

2002
365. Central Exhibition Morvokzal’s (port) complex. Odessa, Ukraine

2001
Oksana Mas. Korolenko State Art Museum. Odessa, Ukraine

1997
Oksana Mas. Art Gallery Valkenburg, Netherlands

Oksana Mas. M-Gallery. Prague, Czechia

Oksana Mas. Museum of Fine Arts. Ilyichevsk, Ukraine

1995
Oksana Mas. Museum of Fine Arts, Ilyichevsk, Ukraine

Oksana Mas. Central Exhibition Hall of Ukraine Artists’ Union. Kiev, Ukraine

Oksana Mas. Exhibition Hall of UNO representatives in Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine


Group Exhibitions (selected):

2010
Oct – 2011 Jan The Glory of Ukraine. Meridian International Center,
Washington, DC

2010
Art Moscow 2010 by Aidan Gallery, Moscow; Barbarian Art Gallery,
Zurich; Mironova Gallery, Kiev

2010
Art Chicago, exhibited by Mironova Gallery
Art by Geneve

The Armory Show, NY

2009
Art Dubai

The Armory Show NY

2007
Movement. Evolution. Art. The Cultural Foundation «Ekaterina». Moscow,
Russia

XV Group exhibition of gallery’s artists. Aidan Gallery. Moscow, Russia

Gulf Art Fair. Dubai, UAE

2006
Modus R. Design district Art Basel Miami. Miami, USA

Moscow World Fine Art Fair. Manege. Moscow, Russia

Group show of Aidan Gallery’s artists. Aidan Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2005
Group show of Aidan Gallery’s artists. Aidan Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2000
Biennale «Marine-2000». Marine gallery. Odessa, Ukraine

Fund of Russian Artists. Paris, France

1999
Golden-Art-Gallery. Koln, Germany

1998
Biennale «Marine-1998». Marine Gallery. Odessa, Ukraine

Hall Gallery. Amsterdam, Netherlands

1997
Municipal Exhibition Hall. Maastricht, Netherlands

1996
French Cultural Center. Kiev, Ukraine


PERSONAL WEBSITE: www.mas-art.com

Michele Dantini’s work is about care and carelessness. interested in projects characterised by transcultural practices and social/environmental implications, the artist develops travels and residencies abroad as narrative performances. often conceived for places without representation, his projects do not offer “objective” analyses or perfunctory answers. The cues typically come from a discovery, an oscillation between perplexity and fascination. a space crisscrossed by potential narrations of displacement and solitude, an object, a name, a fragment of a story, all become figures in a wider reflection on relations between power and violence, narratives and places.
The reconstruction of a context is intimately connected to the exploration of states of mind, interior landscapes, spheres of experience, and the production of images is interwoven with the practice of the travelogue. photographic images, drawings, video and text works induce the spectator to mobilize emotional and cognitive resources, to come to terms with an experience of mobility and vertigo.
Widely translated essayist and performative lecturer for prestigious academic institutions (académie de France, roma; sci-arc, Los angeles|Lugano; milan polytechnic; università Bocconi and università cattolica, milan; Betzalel, Jerusalem), michele dantini regularly collaborates with national and international publications (Corriere della Sera, Abitare, Cross, Il giornale dell’arte, L’indice, Riga, Multitudes) and is professor in contemporary art history at the università del piemonte orientale. Lives and works between milan and Florence.


Solo Exhibitions and video screenings (selection):

animals animaux tiere animali (curator), Galleria continua, san Gimignano, 2.1999
Utz (curator), palazzo delle papesse, siena, 3.1999
Mr Crusoe’s Mother, Fondazione adriano olivetti, rome, curator Bernardo Giorgi, 4.2002
Strange stories, palazzo strozzi, Florence, curators arabella natalini and sergio risaliti, 11.2002
No breaking news, Kunsthalle montforthaus, Feldkirch [a], curator Thomas Hengelbrock, 6.2004
Incantations (with alexander Lonquich), Feldkirch [a], curator Thomas Hengelbrock, 6.2004
A Green Nothing, Quarter, Florencee, curator sergio risaliti, 7.5/17.6.05
Shifts, spazio raum, Bologna, 11.2005, curator Xing
Are you sensitive? museo marino marini, Florence, 7/27.4.2006, curator daria Filardo
A Green Nothing, Fondazione merz, turin, 1.2007
A Green Nothing, Gam, palazzo pitti, Florence, 2.2007
Bardini Boboli Project, parco Bardini, Florence, 18.5/6.10.2007, curator alberto salvadori|osservatorio per le arti contemporanee
Baedeker, parco Bardini, Florence, 18.5/6.10.2007; Volpaia, 29.10.2007, tusciaelecta 2007, curator arabella natalini
Cythère, Villa Bardini, Firenze, 25.11.2008/27.02.2009, curated by alberto salvadori and Luigi Fassi [art agenda] Cythère, Villa Bardini, Firenze,
25.11.2008/27.02.2009, curated by alberto salvadori and Luigi Fassi
Untitled, alessandro de march Gallery, milano, 12.03|05.05.2009


Group Exhibitions (selection):
Five (un)ambiguous statements upon distance and beauty, galleria alessandro de march, milan, 12.2002
Working/Insider, stazione Leopolda, Florence, curator sergio risaliti, 2.2003
Weeds/Neighbours, X international Biennial of photography, Fondazione italiana di Fotografia, turin, curator anna detheridge, 9.2003
Schreibstation, stiftung Galerie für Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, 1.2004, curator Julia schäfer
The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, macedonian museum of contemporary art, Thessaloniki, Greece, 22.7/18.9.2005||Quarter, centro
produzione arte, Florence, 6.10/13.11.2005, curators marina Fokidis, sergio risaliti, daphne Vitali [e-flux]
TempoZulu Project, curators Francesco carone, Gregorio Galli, Bernardo Giorgi, christian posani, siena, 12.2005 (on-site, permanent)
Artissima, turin, Galleria alessandro de march, 11.2006
I-City, palazzo di re enzo, Bologna, 1.2007, curators elvira mazzini and Valentina ciuffi
Per adesso siamo qua, Villa romana, Firenze, 9.2007, curator Lorenzo Bruni
The Last Book, national Library of argentina, Buenos aires, 31.10.2008/8.3.2009, curator Luis camnitzer
1988. Vent’anni prima, vent’anni dopo, centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi pecci, prato, 1.11.2008/18.02.2009, curator marco Bazzini [e-flux]
Green Platform, cccs Florence, 23.4|20.7.2009, curators Valentina Gensini and Lorenzo Giusti
Iconography of Climate Change, studio 9:43 @ The distillery, 516 east second street , Boston, ma, 10.05.2009, curated by robert davies
10 – una generazione di libri d’artista, 1999 – 2009, o’, milano, 17.9|9.10.2009, curator Giorgio maffei