Lesia Khomenko 

Born in 1980 in Kyiv is a multidisciplinary artist who reconsiders the role of painting – she deconstructs narrative images and transforms paintings into objects, installations, performances, or videos. Her interest lies in revealing tools of visual manipulation in the context of history-making and myth-making. She graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv, 2004. A member of R.E.P. group since 2004, she is also a co-founder of curatorial union HUDRADA, a self-educational community based on interdisciplinary cooperation, 2008. Khomenko is an initiator and program director of the “Contemporary Art” course at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. Her works were shown in many exhibitions, including at the Lviv Municipal Art Center, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv; MNAC, Bucharest, 2016; The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Kyiv Biennial 2012; National Art Museum of Ukraine; Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv; Fridman Gallery, New York; MUMOK, Vienna; De Appel, Amsterdam; Venice Biennale; Kunsthalle Vienna. She was a finalist of the Pinchuk Art Prize in 2009, 2011, and 2013, and a 2016 finalist of the Kazimir Malevich Award, Kyiv. Lives and works in New York.