Oksana Tanasiv/OKSI
Biography:
Oksana Tanasiv is an American artist of Ukrainian origin who lives and works in Connecticut, USA. Her life is a successful story of artist-immigrant who left her life behind for a chance to realize her American dream life from the scratch. Oksana’s works are widely presented at national and international art fairs, including Art on Paper NYC, Art Palm Beach, Aqua Miami, Art Los Angeles, Art Hampton, Volta NYC etc. She works in several styles and directions using more than a dozen different materials and author’s techniques. Oksana Tanasiv’s paintings belong to museum collections in the USA, Canada, Europe and private collections around the world.
AWARDS:
– “Winner of The Future of Art Global Masterpiece Award” by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine. USA. (Summer 2024):
– Award “Order of Queen Anne “Honor of the Fatherland” on silver, gold and diamond stars is awarded in Ukraine and France for personal wisdom and courage, high education and culture, tolerance, loyalty to duty, benevolence, virtue and deeds of high valor and honors aimed at the benefit of the People and the State. Kyiv, Ukraine (March 2024);
– Award “Order of Saint Sophia” for Professional Achievements. Kyiv, Ukraine. (December 2024);
– Award “Cultural Diplomacy” by Public Organization “Grandees, Ratings and Nominations”, Charitable Organization “Committee for Public Awards of Ukraine” . Kyiv. (April 10, 2022);
– Award in Art&Culture 2022 by Norwalk Chamber of Commerce , winner of Small Business Award in Art and Culture, Connecticut, USA. (June 2022).
Oksana Tanasiv is CREATOR of more than 500 original art pieces in different styles Experimenter with multiple techniques (LED, crystals mosaic, oil stitching, collage, ) and multiple media: oil, acrylic, watercolor, gold and silver leaf, epoxy, Swarovski® crystals, sequences, beads, paper collage.- Founder of Conceptual collection Dollar Art featuring social, political, and economical issues.- Since 2012 , every season featured artist of New York City Fashion Week, presenting fashion fine art series to the visitors at the iconic places of NYC, Times Square Manhattan (Crown Plaza), Waldorf Astoria, New Yorker Hotel.- Art by Oksana Tanasiv belongs to the private collections worldwide
Exhibitions & Art Fairs:
EXHIBITOR of national and international art fairs, galleries’ exhibitions, events: Art Miami/Context International Fair, Miami (2024), Aqua Miami Art Fair, Miami (2024), “Art on Paper International Show”, NYC (2024), Los Angeles Art Fair (2023), Art Palm Beach (2023) , Aqua Miami 2022 during Art Basel Week, Hampton Fine Art 2022, Art Market Hampton 2022, Art VOLTA NYC 2022, -Aqua Miami 2019, Market Art+Design Hampton 2018, Art Expo NYC 2012, 2013, 2014, Art Santa Fe 2010, etc.
Exhibitor of MUSEUMS Shows & Collections:
– The Shevchenko Museum, Toronto, Canada.-The Museum of Imrich Winter, Bath Piestany, EU;
– The Ukrainian Art Museum and Library, Stamford, CT;
– The Museum of Russian Art – MoRA, Jersey City, NJ The Bridgehampton Museum, South Hampton, NY;
– The Museum of Lisbon – Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida , Portugal, EU.
