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 six museum group shows: “MIXMASTER 2026” at Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury, CT), “Curated Isolation” at Windgate Museum of Art (Conway, AR, 2025-2026), “Morning Noon Night” at Attleboro Arts Museum (Attleboro, MA, 2024), Annual Artist Members Exhibitions at Edward Hopper House Museum (Nyack, NY, 2024), “Exhibitour” at Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art and “Stories from my Childhood” at Northern Illinois University Art Museum.

Selected other group shows: “The Lorax”, curated by Charles Moore, and “Worlds Aglow”, curated by Caroline Voagen (LIC Arts, Queens, 2025), “Artists in 2-D, 3-D, and Video”, curated by Yuko Nii (WAH Center, Brooklyn, 2024), the government led project “Art x Climate Fifth National Climate Assessment” (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), among others.

In 2024, Kovalchuk was a resident artist at the Kunstraum Residency, Brooklyn, NY.
In 2023, Kovalchuk completed a collaborative project with the Only Make Believe Theater, dedicated to bringing joy to children in hospitals.

Kovalchuk’s glass collage, “Diary of Memory”, and mixed media collage, “Impossibility of Movement”, were acquired by the Yuko Nii Foundation, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Brooklyn, NY to join the foundation’s art collection.