CV

Born in 1973 in Shostka, Ukraine. Lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

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Education

1993–99Diploma in Easel Graphics, Kharkiv Art and Industrial Institute (now Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts), Kharkiv, Ukraine
1989–93Donetsk Art College, Painting Department, Donetsk, Ukraine

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010Chernoff Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2002Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine
2001Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine
1997Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine
1995Hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Yalta, Ukraine

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026–27‘Sixth Annual Juried Show’, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (forthcoming, November 7, 2026 – January 10, 2027)
2021‘The Game of Noughts and Crosses’, Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl, Russia
2013‘Happinez Festival’, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012‘Future Pass’, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
‘Future Pass’, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2011–12‘Future Pass’, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2011‘Future Pass: From Asia to the World’, Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, Venice, Italy. Curated by Victoria Lu, Renzo di Renzo and Felix Schöber
2009–10‘Animamix Biennial: Visual Attract & Attack’, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA Taipei), Taipei, Taiwan. Curated by Yuchieh Lin; Artistic Director: Victoria Lu
2009‘Celeste Prize 2009’, Finalists’ Exhibition, Alte AEG Fabrik, Berlin, Germany
2008‘Exhibition of Contemporary Artists’, Milan, Italy
‘VIII International Exhibition of Art Dolls (NIADA)’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2005‘Art Manege 2005’, Moscow, Russia
1998‘International Art Festival’, Kyiv, Ukraine
1992‘Malovnycha Ukraina’, Kyiv, Ukraine
‘Pan-Ukrainian Biennale’, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
‘Art Donetsk’, Donetsk, Ukraine

Selected Awards

2009Finalist, Celeste Prize, International Prize for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2006–08Grand Prix, International Art Competition, Moscow, Russia (three consecutive years)

Projects and Collaborations

2022SEI TU × Lelya Borisenko, limited-edition capsule collection featuring the ‘Wanderers’ series, launched via Shopping Live
2021‘WAYFARERS’, a series of 106 digital works released on the Ethereum blockchain
2020–‘Wanderers’, ongoing watercolour series

Collections

UNEEC Culture and Education Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
Private collections in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Russia, China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea

Selected Press and Bibliography

2021Elena Shipitsyna, ‘Lelya Borisenko: We Have All Become Wayfarers’, interview, ARTandYou, 24 February 2021
2017Viacheslav Doroshenko, ‘The Blue Goat: On the Paintings of Lelya Borisenko’, Klauzura, 18 October 2017
2012Milou van Oene, ‘Een vrijkaartje voor de toekomst?’, Tubelight, 18 January 2012
2011Victoria Lu, ‘Future Pass – From Asia to the Future World of Art’, curatorial statement, Venice / Taipei
‘Future Pass: From Asia to the World’, exhibition catalogue, UNEEC Culture and Education Foundation, Taipei / Venice
Lucy Hawthorne, ‘Future Pass and Cracked Culture at the Venice Biennale’, hobART, 14 June 2011
2010Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, ‘Asia Comic Art Makes It to the Museum’, The New York Times, 4 January 2010; print edition, International Herald Tribune, 5 January 2010