Galina Shevchenko is a Moscow-born Chicago-based, multimedia artist, educator and mother. Formerly a refugee and a legalized alien; currently a naturalized citizen and a college professor.
Galina‘s multimedia practice explores post-feminist & post-Soviet identities through mediation, digital materiality and augmented reality. Galina orchestrates fluid, elusive and illusory videoscapes, creates site-specific installations and virtual worlds.
The cornerstone of her practice, exploration of female grotesque, has gone through multiple iterations, from being purely emotional, expressive gesture, to systematic attempt of articulating the language of the grotesque graphically and poetically, visualizing stanzas and endurances, the liquidity of perpetual transformation of the body. Her grotesque bodies engender new ideas through their nature of being intermixed, unresolved, and impure. Her grotesque fantasy is mythological, but also muses with science and politics providing more avenues for inquiry.
Galina has exhibited her work and performed live video, nationally & internationally.
The highlights of Galina’s features include:
Red Shift film festival (NY, NY) 2005;
Media Forum at Moscow International Film Festival (Moscow, Russia) 2007;
Director’s Lounge video festival (Berlin, Germany) 2008;
Lucciche: Simposio di VideoArte (Carrara, Italy) 2016;
Aqua Miami International Art Fair (Miami, FL) 2019;
Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL) 2020;
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia) 2021;
CADAF Paris 2021 (Paris & virtually);
Hamilton MAS (Felixstowe, UK) 2021;
The Franklin (Chicago, IL) 2022;
International Museum of Surgical Science (Chicago, IL), 2023;
Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery (NY, NY) 2023;
Ignition Projects Space (Chicago, IL) 2023;
Lubeznik Center for the Arts (Michigan City, IN) 2024;
Antichita de Alina Malova (Firenze, Italy) 2024;
Venezia Contemporanea Association (Venezia, Italy) 2025.
Galina holds BA in Psychology from the University of Chicago and MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an Associate Professor of Art and Digital Multimedia Design at Harold Washington College.
