At present time Kateryna Bortsova is a painter – graphic artist with BFA in graphic arts
and MFA. Works of Kateryna took part in many international exhibitions (Taiwan, Berlin,
Munich, Spain, Italy, USA etc.). Also she win silver medal in the category “realism” in
participation in “Factory of visual art”, New York, USA and 2015 Emirates Skywards Art of
Travel competition, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Kateryna is always open for commission and you can view her work on Instagram:
@katerynabortsova, or on her website: https://bortsova6.wixsite.com/bortsova .
Was born 10.12.1983 in Kharkov, Ukraine. Now – Leipzig, Germany
Education:
2008 – Master of Fine Arts (Kharkov National Pedagogical University)
2007 – Bachelor of Graphic Arts (Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts)
Personal Exhibitions:
2007 – “Graphic art by Kateryna Bortsova”, Kharkov state Art museum, Kharkov, Ukraine
2002 – “People of contemporaneity”, Kharkov State Art museum, Kharkov, Ukraine
2000 – “Graphic arts”, Kharkov State Art College, Kharkov, Ukraine
Awards, diplomas:
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, United Arab Emirates
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, Citta Fiera Martignacco, Italy
2007 – Finalist of 6 Francisco Mantecon International Advertising Poster Competition, Spain
Residence, art colony and plein airs:
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
2013 – International Art Plein Air Pancevo, Serbia.
Publications:
2022 – VAINE magazine Issue 06 “Place and Identity”, UK
2022 – Transformative Power of Art Journal, Volume 1, Special edition “On War and Peace”,
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 – 3Elements Review, N 34, USA
2022 – The Thought Collective, Issue one: The Everyday, Singapore
2022 – The Song Between Our Stars, Volume 1, number 2, Pingo Soochét, USA
2022 – Bealtaine magazine, Issue 2, Co. Cork, Ireland
2022 – Residual Believers, Issue 2
2022 – Anvane Magazine Februrary 2022 #3
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 – Corbeaux Magazine, RED issue, USA
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 – Artists 4 Peace, Issue 5, www.artists4peace.org
2021 – The Red Zenith Equality Zine, First Issue, London, UK
2021 – Creatures Issue 4 :Consumption, USA
2021 – Winner of the Censorship & Freedom Contest, The Abstract Elephant Magazine LLC, USA
2021 – Superpresent, spring Issue, 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
2021 – SUTTERVILLE REVIEW, the Sacramento Poetry Center, USA
2021 – Apricity Magazine 5th edition, University of Texas, Austin, USA
2021 – The Ear, Issue 24, USA
2021 – Chitro Magazine Issue 1, Australia
2020 – Cover of High Plains Register, Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming, 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 – The Dollhouse Issue 3, USA
2020 – FAKfulness Art Mag 4th, Warsaw, Poland
2020 – “Homeward” Havik, Las Positas College, USA
2020 – Flea Circus Magazine “Little Victories” – Volume 01, UK
2020 – Pretty Owl Poetry, issue 26 summer, the Sundress Publications, USA
2020 – Beyond Queer Words, international literary magazine, USA
2020 – Stonecrop No 03, Spring, College of Western Idaho, USA
2020 – Alchemy 2020, Portland, USA
2020 – Phoebe Issue 49.2, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
2020 – The MASS: MATRIARCHY
2020 – Juste Milieu, Issue No 10 (Monochrome), Detroit, USA
2019 – Sheepshead Review, Volume 42, No 1, UW-Green Bay’s Journal of Literature and Art, USA
2019 – The William and Mary Review, Vol. 57, Virginia, 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 – Unstamatic literary magazine, November Issue, Missoula, Montana, USA
2019 – The New Southern Fugitives, Volume 2, Issue 18, USA
2019 – Cover of Door is a Jar Magazine, Issue 10 Spring, USA
2019 – Landlocked Magazine, Issue 1, USA
2019 – The Oakland Review, Volume XLIV, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2019 – Cover art of The Central Dissent: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, Fall 2018, the University of
Central Oklahoma, USA
2019 – Gasher, winter issue, Stillwater, OK, USA
2018 – Anastamos journal, Issue 4, Chapman University, California, USA
2018 – North American Review, blog USA https://northamericanreview.org/sentences-and-bodies
2018 – deLuge – a Literary and Arts Journal, USA http://www.delugejournal.com/index.html
2018 – Shards, Issue 4, Glass Mountain Mag, Houston, 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 – Talking Writing, Boston, USA http://talkingwriting.com/how-i-became-amateur
2018 – Ponder Review, Volume 2, Issue 1, Mississippi University for Women, USA
2018 – Gravel Mag, Summer Issue, University of Arkansas at Monticello, USA
2018 – Scene & Heard a journal of artistic reflections, salutatory issue, Florida, USA
2018 – Levitate literary magazine, Issue 2, the Chicago High School for the Arts, USA
2018 – The Esthetic Apostle, First Spring Issue, Columbia, USA https://www.estheticapostle.com/way-to-
my-heart
2018 – Streetlight Magazine, USA
2017 – Repurposed Mag, Issue Three
2016 – Here Comes Everyone (HCE), East and West Issue, UK
2014 – Landescape Art Review, January https://issuu.com/landescapeartpress/docs/landescape_art_review_-
_december_20_3c31c2107ebb97/76
2012 – The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 52, Issue 4, UK
Biennale, competitions, group exhibitions:
2022 – 5th Annual PASA Festival, Seoul, South Korea, Hanoi, Vietnam
2022 – Deeply Pelusa Life, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, Germany
2022 – XXII Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira, Fundação Bienal de Arte de Cerveira, Vila Nova da
Cerveira, Portugal
2022 – International exhibition “Erotic Art Show”, Rhizome, Washington, USA
2022 – City Crush 10, festival of street culture, Werk 2, Leipzig, Germany
2022 – „Betonliebe“ Der AK Streetart festival, Nuremberg, Germany
2022 – “Krieg und Frieden”, Kulturkorridor, MoonArt Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2022 – Dark Hope Respite, 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 – 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 – 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
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, USA
2020 – “Response”, online exhibition, The Duluth Art Institute, 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 – 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 – IV Biennale of watercolors of small format, Belgrade, Serbia
2015 – THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL GRAPHICS EXHIBITION, KRALJEVO, SERBIA
2013 – Sixth International biennale of mini prints – Tetovo, Macedonia
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, West Park Art Gallery, New York, USA
2010 – Exhibition of posters devoted to Tacoma International film festival 2010, Tacoma, 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 – 29 Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain
2009 – 10 Teheran International poster biennale, Teheran Iran
2008 – First International Student Competition of Poster, Skopje 2008, “Tolerance – A Global Challenge”,
Skopje, Macedonia
2008 – 28 Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain
2008 – “Variations” group exhibition at Kharkov State Art museum, Kharkov, Ukraine
2007 – 4 International biennale of Mini prints – Tetovo 2007, Macedonia
2007 – 27 Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain
Took part in international and regional conferences: Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod,
Astrakhan (2011 – 2015).), Ukraine (Kharkov, Kiev, Simferopol, Cherkasy, 2007 – 2014.), Germany (Munich
2012), USA (Texas, Dallas, 2014).
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.
The works are situated in collections:
Private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, Macedonia, UK, USA, Australia, 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.
Professional experience:
2016 – 2017 – lecturer at Kharkov State College of Textiles and Design
2010 – 2013 – researcher of department of Western European Art at Kharkov State Art Museum
2007 – 2010 – lecturer (graphic arts) at Kharkov State Art College
