Olesia Bilyk (born in 1997, Polonne, Khmelnytskyi region) is a Ukrainian photo artist.
She graduated from Kamianets-Podilskyi National Ivan Ohiienko University with a degree in Tourism at the Faculty of Economics. In 2018, she began working in commercial photography, management, design, retouching, and video production, and moved to Kyiv.
In 2020–2021, she studied at the Kyiv School of Photography (fundamentals, product photography, video and editing) and at SKVOT School (retouching).
She has collaborated with Ukrainian brands including Wood and Hearts, WowHelperCo, BuzyWood, Sborka, Domino Group, Helen Marlen, and Craft Sale.
In 2022–2023, she studied at the MYPH School founded by Serhii Melnychenko.
Since late 2024, she has actively participated in group exhibitions in Denmark, Greece, Germany, France, and Ukraine. Her works have been published in international magazines in the United States and Europe, and she has received her first interviews and awards.
Group exhibitions:
2026 - “Free walls”, Flowerbed Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2025 - «ART: RECONSTRUCTION 2025”, Lviv Palace of Arts, Ukraine
2025 - BNW IPA 2025 Exhibition for celebrating the «Bicentury Anniversary of Photography», Galerie Joseph Froissart, Paris, France
2025 - “Through experience” Center for Contemporary Art in Zaporizhia, Ukraine
2025 - International Photography online Exhibition "The Color of Memory", Allora Gallery
2025 - “Issue #131" F-Stop Magazine, online exhibition, usa
2025 - “NOSTALGIA, UTOPIAS AND RETHINKING OF EASTERN EUROPE”, Garage Nord & oseréd:ia, Hannover, Germany
2025 - “Issue #130" F-Stop Magazine, online exhibition, USA
2025 - “Bizarre and Unusual” online exhibition, Decagon gallery, USA
2025 - The 3rd B&W Athens Photography, Greece
2024 - “Shared Body”, Ukraine House in Denmark, Copenhagen
Awards:
2025 - Bronze medal winner in the Reporting/News category, International B&W Photography Awards photo contest, Paris, France
Publications:
2025 - NVRMIND paper № 21 «Chronicles of a Megacity», Ukraine
2025 - Artists to watch 2024-2025, pale space gallery, USA
2025 - “Issue #131" F-Stop Magazine, USA
2025 - Honorable Mention in the category «Abstract Vision», International B&W Photography Awards photo contest, Paris, France
2025 - 10 Questions with Olesia Bilyk, Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
2025 - “Issue #130" F-Stop Magazine, USA
2025 - The catalogue “The Flash #21: Bizarre and Unusual”, Decagon gallery, USA
2024 - Best Picture, Online photo publishing from artjobs
2023 - Interviews with young artists (refugees from Ukraine) for Clowner utan Gränser, Stockholm, Sweden
