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MASTER OF FINE ARTS BACHELOR OF GRAPHIC ARTS

PERSONAL EXHIBITION:

“Graphic art by Kateryna Bortsova”, Kharkov state Art museum,  Ukraine

 “People of contemporaneity”, Kharkov state Art museum,  Ukraine

“Graphic arts”, Kharkov state Art College, Kharkov, Ukraine

 

AWARDS:

2016 – Winner of “Find Your Brilliance” contest, made by Dell and Mashable, USA

2015 – Winner of the 2016 Emirates Skywards Art of Travel competition, Dubai, UAE

2012 – Winner of cover competition of Oxford University Press, Great Britain

2012 – Silver medal in the category “realism” in participation in “Factory of visual art”,

New York, USA

2010 – Finalist of “Free press” International poster design exhibition,  Italy

2007 – Finalist of 6 Francisco Mantecon International Poster Competition, Spain

 

RESIDENCY:

​2023 – El Hacedor art residency, La Aldea del Portillo de Busto, Spain

2022 – PILOTENKUECHE The International Art Program 51 round, Leipzig, Germany

2021 – Faberllull Olot, Catalonia, Spain

2020 - Grand from Casa Tagumerche art residency, Canarias Islands, Spain

2018 – JIWAR art residence, Barcelona, Spain

2017 – GLO’ART Residence, Lanaken, Belgium

2016 – 52nd International art Colony Pocitelj, Pocitelj, Bosnia and Hercegovina

2016 – International Art Colony “Antik Art Colony ‘16”, Jale, Himare, Albania

2015 – 13 International Art Colony Karpino, Macedonia

2014 – 21 International Art Colony Kicevo, Macedonia

PUBLICATIONS:

2023 – Cover of Ignatian Literary Magazine V36 I. 1, University of San Francisco, USA

2023 – Arboreal Literary Magazine, No. 03: Illusion, Eugene, OR, USA

2023 – The Quarter(ly) Vol. 7 part 2, Millen, GA, USA

2023 – Artwork Gallery Magazine, Issue 3. Color vibe, Ukraine

2023 – Progenitor Art and Literary Journal V. 58, the Arapahoe Community College, USA

2023 – Words of The Lamb, Literary Magazine of Faith

2023 – Issue II of Women United ART MAGAZINE, Czech Republic 

2023 – 3rd Place for the final Blue Expo Video, ZO Magazine's, LA, USA

2022 – Defunkt magazine, Volume 11, Houston, Texas, USA

2022 – Cover for V. 33 Sierra Nevada Review, University of Nevada,  USA

2022 – Center of Gravity, About Place Journal, V. 7, Issue 2, Black Earth Institute, USA

2022 – Oxford Magazine Issue 49, Miami University, USA

2022 – Fast Flesh Literary Journal Issue 1 (FERAL), USA

2022 – VAINE magazine Issue 06 “Place and Identity”, UK

2022 – “Beauty in Rigor: The Art of Kateryna Bortsova”, Issue 3: In Our Hands, I, Enheduanna, USA

2022 – cover for Cold Mountain Review, Special Issue on Identity Volume 50, Appalachian State University, USA

2022 – ModPortrait 2021, Galería artelibre, ISBN 978-84-09-31302-0, Spain

2022 – Blood Orange Review, issue 14.1, Washington State University, USA

2022 – The Thought Collective, Issue one: The Everyday, Singapore

2022 – Bealtaine magazine, Issue 2, Co. Cork, Ireland

2021 – Sutterville review, First Issue, Land Park Press, Sacramento, California, USA

2021 – Superstition Review, Issue 28, Arizona State University, USA

2021 – NonBinary Review, Issue 26, Zoetic Press, USA

2021 – Flora Fiction, Volume 2 Issue 3 Fall 2021, Saint Augustine, Florida, USA

2021 – Cover for PacificREVIEW: The Mirror Maze, San Diego State University, USA

2021 – NNC art magazine June 2021, Amsterdam, Netherland

2021 – The Athena Review, Third Issue, The Summer Solstice Collection, USA

2021 – The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Volume 1, Issue 1

2021 – Defunkt Magazine, Volume 8, USA

2021 – The Red Zenith Equality Zine, First Issue, London, UK

2021 – Winner of the Censorship & Freedom Contest, The Abstract Elephant Magazine LLC, USA

2021 – The Working Artist, Second Edition, UK

2021 – Cover for APERO fine art catalogue, January 2021, USA

2021 – Cover art for CAMAS Winter 2020, Resilience, the University of Montana, USA

2020 – Interview for Negromundo, Alicante, Spain, http://www.negromundo.com/kateryna-bortsova-entrevista/

2020 – Cover art for Volume 3 Issue 1 of Margins Magazine, The UTSC Women's and Trans Centre, University of Toronto, Canada

2020 – FAKfulness Art Mag 4th, Warsaw, Poland

2020 – “Homeward” Havik, Las Positas College, USA

2020 – Beyond Queer Words, international literary magazine, USA

2020 – Phoebe Issue 49.2, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

2019 – Sheepshead Review, Volume 42, № 1, UW-Green Bay’s Journal of Literature and Art, USA

2019 – Bluebee magazine, Volume 2, UK

2019 – Cover of High Plains Register, Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA

2019 – Cover of Lily Poetry Review Volume1 Issue 2, USA

2019 – The New Southern Fugitives, Volume 2, Issue 18, USA

2019 – Cover of Door is a Jar Magazine, Issue 10 Spring, USA

2019 – The Oakland Review, Volume XLIV, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

2019 – Cover art of The Central Dissent: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, the University of Central Oklahoma, USA

2018 – Anastamos journal, Issue 4, Chapman University, California, USA

2018 – Sonder Midwest, Issue 2, USA

2018 – New Plains Review, spring 2018, the University of Central Oklahoma , USA

2018 – The Healing Muse, the annual journal of literary and visual art, Volume 18, New York, USA

2018 – Ponder Review, Volume 2, Issue 1, Mississippi University for Women, USA

2018 – Scene & Heard a journal of artistic reflections, salutatory issue, Florida, USA

2018 – Streetlight Magazine, USA

2018 – Levitate literary magazine, Issue 2, the Chicago High School for the Arts, USA

2018 – Barzakh A LITERARY MAGAZINE, Spring 2018, NY, USA 

2018 – The Esthetic Apostle, First Spring Issue, Columbia,, USA  

2014 – Landescape Art Review , January 

2012 – The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 52, Issue 4, UK

 

BIENNALE, COMPETITIONS, GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2024 – “Posters for Peace”, Peace Museum Vienna, Austria

2023 – IPBP Nanjing International Biennial of Poster for Peace, The Memorial Hall for the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders, Nanjing University of the Arts, China

2023 – “Connecting Cultures”, the first Dubai Biennale, Dubai Design District, Dubai, UAE

2023 – Neon Gala at the Nicolaysen Art Museum (The NIC), USA

2023 – „Freunde – друзі“, Bureau of International Relations, Nuremberg, Germany

2023 – “Genesis: The Beginning of Creativity”, Jewish Art Salon, Riverside Church, New York, USA

2023 – Women’s Art Forum, Ostraca arts, Hurghada, Luxor, Egypt

2023 – Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE

2023 – International exhibition "Freunde", Theater Lindenhof Melchingen, Melchingen, Germany

2022 – “Streben nach Glück”, Kulturkorridor, MoonArt Gallery, Aachen, Germany

2022 – 5th Annual PASA Festival, Seoul, South Korea, Hanoi, Vietnam

2022 – Deeply Pelusa Life, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, Germany

2022 – International exhibition “Erotic Art Show”, Rhizome, Washington, USA

2022 – City Crush 10, festival of street culture, Werk 2, Leipzig, Germany

2022 – XXII Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira,  Fundação Bienal de Arte de Cerveira, Vila Nova da Cerveira, Portugal

2022 – “Krieg und Frieden”, Kulturkorridor, MoonArt Gallery, Leipzig, Germany

2022 – Dark Hope Respite, PILOTENKUECHE, Leipzig, Germany

2022 – Moving surreal curiousity, open studio show, PILOTENKUECHE, Leipzig, Germany

2022 – ALC, video festival, Pozos de Garrigós: Museo de Aguas de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

2022 – “PHY/GITAL”, NM gallery, Affordable Art Fair Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

2022 – 26th Annual Festival of Alternative Art, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia

2022 – The 3rd One Hour International Short Film Festival (OHISFF), Papakura Art Gallery, 10 Averill Street, Papakura, Auckland | Tāmaki-makaurau, Aotearoa | New Zealand

2021 – “Communitas III: Digitale Gemeinschaft”, Kunsthaus Steffisburg, Switzerland

2021 – MTHR, Projekt 12/21, Ministry of Culture and Science, the Wuppertal Cultural Office, the Fund for Art and Culture and Knipex, Wuppertal, Germany

2021 – Artspace Bremerhaven, ASSOCIATION "DIE ALTE BÜRGER" E.V., Bremerhaven, Germany

2021 – Remote Closeness exhibition, by Factory’s Public Art Program /the JNGFA, the Goethe-Institut in Jordan, the Institut Français de Jordanie, and funded by the Franco-German Cultural Fund, Jordan

2021 – Every Woman Biennial, Copeland Gallery in Peckham, London, UK

2021 – Lacuna Festival, “Distance”, Lanzarote, Spain https://www.lacunafestivals.com/2021-festivals.php

2021 – ARTIM Flux “Do not run! This is only a mirage you see…”, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

2021 – LA INMENSIDAD ÍNTIMA, Salón Abierto de Dibujo, PIRA, Barcelona, Spain

2021 – VR exhibition “Inspiring Girls”, Ink People, Brenda Tuxford Gallery, USA

2021 – VR exhibition “Black Lives Matter”, Matigan Art And Cultural Center, Germany

2021 – VR exhibition “Lockdown exhibition”, Fitzrovia Circle, Free Speech Gallery, Germany

2020 –“Corona and Climate Crisis” Gallery in the Project space of Global 3000 Group e.V., Berlin, Germany

2020 – exhibition of Don Sante Award for Contemporary Art, Bari, Italy

2020 – “Minerva: Harmony to Hollywood”, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, USA

2020 – “It is not your body”, online exhibition, Gallarty gallery, Moscow

2020 – “UPLIFTING BOOST”, VR exhibition, Dagaz Gallery, USA

2020 – "I Might Be Staring at Infinity (or the backs of my own eyelids)", VR exhibition, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Virtual ARTIM Project Space, Baku, Azerbaijan

2020 – “La cultura es femenina”, international exhibition, Espacio Cultural El Tanque, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

2019 – “Is there a life after plastic?”, BIS ART Gallery, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia

2019 – “Musas” International art exhibition, Alicante, Spain

2019 – Exhibition of nominees of Odessa International Art Prize, “Sady Pobedy”, Odessa, Ukraine

2017 – International exhibition “Lethes Art. Memorty & Identiti(es)”, Ponte de Lima, Portugal

2017 – International exhibition “Fire and Ice”, Alicante, Spain

2017 – Art Revolution Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2016 – ART.WHO.ART #6 festival, Moscow

2016 – Re-Cognition, ART-MAP, arquivo municipal, Ponte de Lima, Portugal

2016 – UAMO festival “Fortress”, Munich, Germany

2015 – Interactive exhibition “Find Your Brilliance”, London's Westfield Stratford City, UK

2015 – “Espejos en el Tiempo, Rusia & España”, Alicante, Spain

2015 – IV Biennale of watercolors of small format, Zrenjanin, Serbia

2015 – The New York Coffee Festival, New York, USA

2015 – III Brest Print Triennial – 2015, Brest, Belarus

2015 – 16 INTERBIFEP, Tuzla, Bosnia and Hercegovina

2015 – PRESIÓN MX 43 MOTIVOS, Mexico

2015 – IV Biennale of watercolors of small format, Belgrade, Serbia

2015 – THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL GRAPHICS EXHIBITION, KRALJEVO, SERBIA

2014 – World Watercolour Competition, France

2013 – Sixth International biennale of mini prints – Tetovo, Macedonia

2013 – Art Project “New Year's salon in Anatomic theater”, Kiev, Ukraine.

2013 – “A Glimpse of the Future”, 8 International Digital Miniprint Exhibition, Ottawa, Canada.

2012 – 7 International triennial of graphic art Bitola, Macedonia

2012 – “Matrices 2012” International electrographic art exhibition of small forms, Budapest, Hungary

2012 – "Creative for Human Rights" IV International Socio-Political Poster Biennalee, Poland

2011 – Fifth International biennale of mini prints – Tetovo, Macedonia

2011 – “Haven and Earth” an international fine art exhibition, New York, USA

2010 – 5 International biennale of Mini prints – Tetovo 2009, Macedonia

2010 – 30 Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain

2010 – “Matrices 2010” International electrographic art exhibition of small forms, Budapest, Hungary

2009 – X biennale international de gravat – Josep de Ribera – Xativa, Spain

INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL CONFERENCES: Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Astrakhan), Ukraine (Kharkov, Kiev, Simferopol, Cherkasy,), Germany (Munich), USA (Texas, Dallas).

AUTHOR OF MONOGRAPH: “The contribution of N. Samokish to the development of graphic arts of end of XIX – early XX centuries”. / E. Bortsova. - Saarbrucken: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015 - 118 p. And more than 20 articles published in scientific journals in Russia, Ukraine, Germany.

ART COLLECTIONS: Private collections in Ukraine, Serbia, UK, USA, Italy, Australia, China, Australia, Sweden, Spain, France, Albania, Hon Kong; The City Gallery of Uzice, Serbia; Palazzo Sturm, Bassano del Grappa, Italy; The town hall of Xativa, Spain; collections of Bodegas Terras Gauda, S. A.; collections of Tetovo Art museum; collections of Bitola museum; collections of Brest Regional Museum, Belarus; collection of of the Association of artists in B&H; collections of Hungarian Electrographic Art Association; collections of Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle; Emirates Skywards Art Collection, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; The museological collection of Ponte de Lima, Portugal; Glo’art collection, Belgium; collection of YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan; collection of The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPIRIENCE:

Lecturer at Kharkov State College of Textiles and Design

Researcher of department of Western European Art at Kharkov State Art Museum

Lecturer (graphic arts) at Kharkov State Art College

 

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