Oleksandr Isaienko was born in 1976 in Izmail, UkrSSR. Ukrainian artist who works with various media, including photography, video, text. Lives and works in San Diego, California.
Awards:
2023 Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos FICMA, Mexico / Mexico
2023 ZTV Video Festival A Go-Go, Nashville / USA ( Honorable mention )
2022 Silk Road Film Festival, Cannes / France
2021 CineToro Experimental Film Festival #14, Toro / Colombia
2021 Stoptrik International Film Festival #10, Lodz / Poland ( Special Mention )
2019 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival #34, Clermont-Ferrand / France
2018 Interference Festival Free Form #5, Gdansk / Poland ( Distinction )
2015 Interference Festival Free Form #2, Gdansk / Poland
2013 PhotoVisa International Festival of Photography #5, Krasnodar / Russia
2013 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival #28, Clermont-Ferrand / France
2012 THE #1 The Video Community, Krakow / Poland
Some of the screenings and exhibitions:
2024 Ghent International Short Film Festival, Gent / Belgium
2024 Vilnus International Film Festival, Vilnus / Lithuania
2024 The Experiments in Cinema v19.8, Albuquerque / USA
2024 Martinique International Film Festival, Online
2023 ZTV Video Festival A Go-Go, Nashville / USA
2023 Festival Cinema Zero, Trento / Italy
2023 Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art #2, Kyiv / Ukraine
2023 IDKF Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart / Germany
2023 REX Animation Festival # 9, Stockholm / Sweden
2023 Producer's Night Los Angeles, Los Angeles / USA
2023 London Super Shorts Film Festival, London / United Kingdom
2023 Little Scuzzy Film Fest, Carbondale / USA
2023 Alternative Film and Video Festival, New Belgrade / Serbia
2023 Bardak Festival of Independent Short Ukrainian Cinema #7, Kharkiv / Ukraine
2023 International Alternative Media Film Festival FICMA # 8, Mexico / Mexico
2023 INTERMEDIACIONES Video Art and Experimental Video Showcase #10, Antioquia / Colombia
2023 DOBRA Experimental Film Festival #9, Rio de Janeiro, Sau Paolo / Brazil
2023 Ibrida Festival Delle Arti Intermediali, Forli / Italy
2023 Nectar from Another Planet, Poznan, Warsaw / Poland
2023 Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv / Ukraine
2023 Bogota Experimental Film Festival #9, Bogota / Colombia
2023 Bridge Film & Video Festival, Chicago / USA
2023 Concepcion Independent Film Awards #9, Concepcion / Chile
2023 Madatac Audiovisual Art Festival #12, Madrid / Spain
2023 Cannes 7th Art Awards #4, Cannes / France
2023 New York Independent Film Festival #14, New York / USA
2023 "Alchimies numériques" Immix Gallery, Paris / France
2023 The Experiments in Cinema v18.4, Albuquerque / USA
2023 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival #38, Clermont-Ferrand / France
2022 Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta / Indonesia
2022 Pasa Festival #5, Suwon / Korea
2022 Bardak #6 Festival of Independent Short Ukrainian Cinema, Kyiv / Ukraine
2022 Simultan Festival #17, Timisoara / Romania
2022 Re-connect Art Festival of Performance and Video Art, Prague / Czech
2022 Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv / Ukraine
2022 Suspaustas Laikas Experimental Film and Arts Festival, Nida / Lithuania
2022 International Festival of Fine Arts #11, Kranj / Slovenia
2022 Peace Letters to Ukraine, Los Angeles and Rockville / USA
2022 Frame & Frequency #8, International Film & Video Art Screening Series, Rockville / USA
2022 Video Art in Support of Ukraine with VAFT, Turku / Finland
2022 Tampere Film Festival #52, Tampere / Finland
2022 EXPERIMENTA Transformação Audiovisual #3, Funchal / Portugal
2021 Interface Video Art Festival, Zagreb / Croatia ( Online )
2021 CineToro Experimental Film Festival #14, Toro / Colombia
2021 IDKF - Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart / Germany
2021 Fonlad Festival Internacional De Video Arte E Perfomance (Online)
2021 Pugnant Film Series Goes to Punk , Athens / Greece
2021 Proyector Video art Festival, Madrid / Spain
2021 Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao / Spain
2021 ALC Videoart Festival, Alicante / Spain
2021 Ibrida Festival Delle Arti Intermediate, Forli / Italy
2021 Encuentros Internacionales Traverse #24, Toulouse / France
2021 An Ordinary Day Film Festival, Stockholm / Sweden
2021 Panorama Video Art + Experimental Cinema #3, VisualcontainerTV International Videoart WebTV (Online)
2021 Нungry Eyes Festival, / Germany (Online)
2020 Festival Des Cinémas Différents Expérimentaux De Paris #22, Paris / France
2020 Stoptrik International Film Festival #10, Maribor / Slovenia, Lodz / Poland
2020 "Unseen" Simultan Festival #15, Timisoara / Romania
2020 LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv / Ukraine (Online)
2020 IFF International Film Festival - Elysium gallery, Swansea / UK (Online)
2019 AVAF - Addis Video Art Festival #3, Addis Ababa / Ethiopia
2019 Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos #4, Mexico / Mexico
2019 Artpro International Video Art Festival, Dhaka / Bangladesh
2019 Cinespacio Festival Internacional #5, Cali / Colombia
2019 Festival Des Cinémas Différents Expérimentaux De Paris #21, Paris / France
2019 BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao / Spain
2019 Facade Video Festival #10, Plovdiv / Bulgaria
2019 Horn Contemporary Film Festival #2, Jerusalem / Israel
2019 "Parallel screens"
1805 gallery, San Diego / USA,
Hermes Artes Visuais, Sao Paulo / Brasil,
Nova Art Space, Weimar / Germany
2019 “Suspaustas Laikas” Eksperimentinio kino festivalis, Nida / Lithuania
2019 LIF - Little Islands Festival, Sikinos / Greece
2019 FIAV - Festival International d'art Vidéo de Casablanca, Casablanca / Morocco
2019 Over the real - Festival Internazionale Videoarte, Lucca / Italy
2019 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival #34, Clermont-Ferrand / France
2019 Ibrida Festival Delle Arti Intermediali #4, Cesena / Italy
2019 The Experiments in Cinema v14.2, Albuquerque / USA
2019 Themeless Timeless Disciplinele Formless - Samples #7, Mexico / Mexico
2019 "To see more lighT" - Pugnant Film Series #2, Athens / Greece
2018 Interference Festival Free Form #5, Gdansk / Poland
2018 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest #35, Kassel / Germany
2018 Festival Des Cinémas Différents Expérimentaux De Paris # 20, Paris / France
2018 Horn Festival, Jerusalem / Israel
2018 Video Art Miden Festival #14, Kalamata / Greece
2018 VAFT - Video Art Festival Turku, Turku / Finland
2017 Interference Festival Free Form #4, Gdansk / Poland
2017 Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, Hsinchu / Taiwan
2017 Festival Des Cinémas Différents Expérimentaux De Paris #19, Paris / France
2017 Transmission Art Festival, Kassel / Germany - Warszawa / Poland - Kassel / Germany
2017 Watch Out Film Festival, Tetovo / Macedonia
2017 Fracto - ACUD, Berlin / Germany
2017 VAFT - Video Art Festival Turku, Turku / Finland
2017 IVAHM - International Video Art House Madrid, Madrid / Spain
2016 Art Video International Festival, Jerusalem / Israel
2016 Espacio Enter - International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture #8, Tenerife / Spain
2016 FIVA Festival Internacional de Videoarte #6, Buenos Aires / Argentine
2016 "I Do Care But I Don`t Understand" BBKL - BUND BILDENDER KÜNSTLER LEIPZIG e.V, Leipzig / Germany
2016 RETHink ART Digital Festival, Rethymno / Greece
2016 Staunton International Film Festival, Staunton / Virginia
2016 "Breach" Rabbithole Gallery, New York / USA
2016 "Around the Axis" AkT , Kyiv / Ukraine
2016 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF) #4, Winnipeg / Canada
2016 Urban Nomad Film Festival #15, Taipei / Taiwan
2016 Photobook in Russia, Dom Metenkova, Yekaterinburg / Russia
2016 MADATAC Audiovisual Art Festival #7, Madrid / Spain
2015 Edinburgh Artists' Moving Image Festival (EAMIF), Edinburgh / Scotland
2015 "Praeparatio" Festival of experimental poetry, Novosibirsk / Russia
2015 Festival Des Cinemas Differents #17, Paris / France
2015 Interference Festival Free Form #2, Gdansk / Poland
2015 Facade Video Festival #6, Plovdiv / Bulgaria
2015 Art Video Israel - International Video Art Festival, Netanya / Israel
2015 "Poetry in Visual" - Gallery of Capitania Building, Aveiro / Portugal
2015 Incubarte International Art Festival #7, Valencia / Spain
2015 « Un Homme » Chapitre III - Galerie Hors-Champs, Paris / France
2015 Experiments in Cinema Festival #10, Albuquerque / New Mexico
2015 « Protecht» - Bank Space Gallery, London / United Kingdom
2015 Zoom-Zblizenia International Film Festival #18, Jelenia Góra/ Poland
2014 Without Words Film Festival (WWFF), Lorraine / France
2014 Les Instants Vidéo Festival #27, Marseille / France
2014 Encontros da Imagem - International Photography Festival “Hope & Faith”, Braga / Portugal
2014 AVIFF Art Film Festival, Cannes / France
2014 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick / Scottish
2014 Videoformes International Digital Art Festival #29, Clermont-Ferrand / France
2014 SLINGSHOT Festival of Music, Electronic Arts, and Technology, Athens / Georgia
2014 International Extra Short Film Festival MAMM #14, (Multimedia Art Museum Moscow), Moscow / Russia
2014 Berlin International Directors Lounge #10, Berlin / Germany
2013 Streaming Festival #8, Zagreb / Croatia
2013 VIDEOMEDEJA #17 International Video Festival, Novi Sad / Serbia
2013 PhotoVisa International Festival of Photography #5, Krasnodar / Russia
2013 Multimedia Showcase #3, Porto / Portugal
2013 Watch Out! Film Festival - Museum of Communist Party, Tetovo / Macedonia
2013 Videoformes #28 International Digital Arts Festival, Clermot-Ferrand / France
2013 Internationell Konst Film Utstallning (IKFU) - Portrait in the moving image - Vandalorum Centrum for Konst och Design, Varnamo / Sweden
2013 Directors Lounge - Urban research, Berlin / Germany
2013 CologneOFF #8 - Continental Drift, Sattal / India
2013 Festival Miden, Chios / Greece
2012 The Video Community - Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow / Poland
2012 Proyector Videoart Festival #5, Madrid / Spain
2012 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick / Scottish
2012 Simultan Festival #8, ‘The beginning of the end’, Timisoara / Romania
2012 Cronosfera Festival #3, Cavatore / Alessandria
2012 Ionian International Digital Film Festival, Levkas / Greece
2012 Kalamata Street Festival #6, Kalamata / Greece
2012 Metronome - National Centre for Conteporary Arts (NCCA), Novosibirsk / Russia
2012 Festival Oodaaq d’images poetiques, Rennes / France
2012 Intercept 1:7 - Multiplexer Gallery, Las Vegas / USA
2012 Generation Loss Festival, Manila / Philippines
2012 CeC - Carnival of a-Creativity, Sattal / India
2011 ExTeresa Arte Actual Mexico City, Mexio
2011 DokumentART European Documentary Film Festival, Neubrandenburg / Germany and Szczecin / Poland
2011 FIVA media festival, Adrogue / Argentina
2011 Baltic Sea #5 - Waterpieces Contemporary & Video Art Festival Riga, Riga / Latvian
2011 BuSho – Budapest International Videoart Festival, Budapest / Hungary
2011 Shams – the Sunflower Beirut 31 August, Lebanon / Beirut
2011 Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna / Bulgaria
2011 Chamber Light - Flash Box Gallery, Novosibirsk / Russia
2011 Space #2 - Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk / Russia
2011 Vidiot #5 - Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM) / the Museum «Moscow House of a photo», Moscow / Russia
Books:
2015 Rupture zone , self published, 50 copies
2014 Index Lost, self published, 10 copies