Oxana Kovalchuk is a NY/NJ-based visual artist born in Kazakhstan. She received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2019, and also holds degrees in Psychology and Economics from Omsk State University, Russia. Working across mixed media, glass collage, video, and installation, her practice examines transformation, resilience, memory, and the psychological and cultural conditions of migration, often through a research-driven and interdisciplinary lens.

Kovalchuk’s solo exhibitions include Turning Point at The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, NJ (2026), There Is No Future Without The Past at Carlisle Arts Learning Center in Carlisle, PA (2025), A Journey to Be Continued at Brownsville Museum of Fine Art in Brownsville, TX (2024), Roots at Kente Royal Gallery in New York, NY (2022), and Making Fools Pray to God at Gallery 456 in New York, NY (2022).

Her work has been presented in a range of museum and gallery exhibitions, including American Perspective, a public art installation created in conjunction with America250 at The Great Wall of Honesdale, PA; A Time within a Time at Monmouth Museum, NJ; MIXMASTER 2026 at Mattatuck Museum, CT; Immigrant Song at the University of Bridgeport, CT; Freedom at Studio Montclair’s Leach Gallery, NJ; and Music Journeys at RE:ARTISTE International Art Organization, New York, NY. Additional selected exhibitions include shows at Blue Mountain Gallery, Biggs Museum of American Art, 440 Gallery, and Windgate Museum of Art.

In 2026, Kovalchuk was accepted into the IN7 Experimental Video Residency in Jersey City, NJ. She was previously a resident at Kunstraum in Brooklyn in 2024. Her collaborative work includes a project with Only Make Believe Theatre, and her works Diaries of Memory and Impossibility of Movement are held in the collection of the Yuko Nii Foundation.