Oxana Kovalchuk, a visual artist based in New York and born in Kazakhstan, earned her MFA at the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2019.

In her artistic exploration, Oxana Kovalchuk delves into themes of transformation, resilience, memory, psychological and cultural challenges of immigration, and adaptability to change. With a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, she seamlessly integrates her knowledge into her research and artwork.

Kovalchuk’s solo exhibitions include “There is No Future without the Past” at Carlisle Arts Learning Center (PA, 2025), “A Journey to Be Continued” at the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art (Texas, 2024), “Roots” at Kente Royal Gallery (NYC, 2022), “Making Fools Pray to God” at Gallery 456 (NYC, 2022).

Along with that, Kovalchuk participated in four museum group shows: “Morning Noon Night” at the Attleboro Arts Museum (Attleboro, MA, 2024), Annual Artist Members Exhibitions at Edward Hopper House Museum (Nyack, NY, 2024), “Exhibitour” at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art and “Stories from my Childhood” at the Museum of Art of the Northern Illinois University.
Selected other group shows: “Worlds Aglow”, curated by Caroline Voagen, LIC Art Center (Queens, 2025), “Artists in 2-D, 3-D, and Video”, curated by Yuko Nii at WAH Center (Brooklyn, 2024), the government led project “Art x Climate Fifth National Climate Assessment” in Washington DC, “Absurdity” (Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL), “Ethnicity through the Eyes of the Artists” (Abington Art Center, Jenkintown PA), “Dialogue with artists in Northeast China” (Lankai Art Gallery, Anshan City, China, 2020), to name a few.
In 2023, Kovalchuk successfully completed her inaugural collaborative project with the Only Make Believe Theater, dedicated to bringing joy to children in hospitals.

In 2024, Kovalchuk was a resident artist at the Kunstraum Residency, Brooklyn, NY. Two pieces by Oxana Kovalchuk, “Diary of Memory” and “Impossibility of Movement”, joined the collection of the Yuko Nii Foundation, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Brooklyn, New York.