oleksiy sai
Born in 1975 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Graduated from Kyiv Art and Industry Colledge and Kyiv National Academy of Art and Architecture. In 2009 was included in the short-list of PinchukArtCentre prize for young artists. Created his own style known as "Excel-Art". His artworks are in the private collections of Philips De Pury and ArtCurial auction houses, and in private collections of the Western and Eastern Europe. In 2017 - participant of the RESÒ / Lab 2 project (BIRUCHIY contemporary art project in cooperation with RESÒ International Network for Art Residencies and Educational Programs), within the framework of which she visited the residence of Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto. Lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Resident of BIRUCHIY since 2012.
Selecred exhibitions and art-projects:
- solo
| 2017 | Lost or found, Bunsen Goertz Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany. |
| Temporary, America House, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 2016 | New landscape, Dymchuk gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| Empire of plenty, Closer gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 2015 | Excel-Art, Bunsen Goertz gallery, Nuremberg, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| Worse than reality, Karas gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 2014 | Vanishing specie, Yermilov centre, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| 2012 | Doom, Institutska str. gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| Excel-Art, Black square gallery, Miami, USA. | |
| 2011 | Waves of joy, Bottega gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| 2010 | All colours of our monitor, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| Welcome attitude, TSECH art gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 2009 | Excel-Art, TSECH art gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| Excel-Art, TSECH art gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 2007 | Excel-Art, ArtStrelka projects gallery, Moscow, Russia. |
| Excel-Art, TSECH art gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 2003 | Flat friends, Marat Guelman gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| 2002 | Happy New Year, Marat Guelman gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
- group:
| 2018 | Permanent revolution, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary. |
| Colorings, special project by BIRUCHIY in the framework of Kyiv Art Week, Toronto center, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 2017 | We hope for your understanding, Closer Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| Resident of Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy. | |
| Petliyk, Ryabchenko, Sai, SKY Art foundation, Art TSUM, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| ART WORK, Dworcowa gallery, Wroclaw, Poland. | |
| ART WORK, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| Show Promise, Lviv Palace of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine. | |
| 2016 | Kylym. Modern Ukrainian artists, Zenko Foundation, Koruna space, Tatariv, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine. |
| Unknown... to Sara Thorton, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 2014 | Premonition: Ukrainian art now, Saatchi gallery, London, UK. |
| Ukraine. Road to freedom, The Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA. | |
| Ours, Yermilov centre, Kharkiv, Ukraine. | |
| I am a drop in the ocean, Kunstlerhaus, Vien, Austria. | |
| Amnezia project, SOUNDOUT festival, Berlin, Germany. | |
| The show within the show, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 2013 | Freedom square, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine. |
| Ukrainian contemporary artists, Saatchi gallery, London, UK. | |
| Blinded by beauty, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 3 Odesa Biennale of Contemporary Art. Museum of Contemporary Art, Odesa, Ukraine. | |
| Matrix/Collective Memory, Black Square Gallery, Miami, USA. | |
| Terrain orientation, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| Art Wynwood, Miami, USA. | |
| 2012 | ARSENALE 2012, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| BIRUCHIY 012, International symposium of contemporary art, Biryuchyi peninsula, Ukraine. | |
| Kyiv Sculpture Project, M. M. Gryshko National Botanic Garden, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| COTEXT Art Miami, International contemporary and modern art fair, Miami, USA. | |
| 2011 | Labour show, Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| WRO 14 media art biennale, Wrozlaw, Poland. | |
| Independent new art of the new country 1991-2011, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 2010 | ЯКЩО/ЕСЛИ/IF, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia. |
| Abstract vision test, Ya Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| Picture’s manager, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 2009 | PAC prize nominee exhibition, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| 2008 | Without brain, Gallery Arches, Vilnius, Lithuania. |
| 2007 | Young Ukrainian contemporary art, Gallilei art centre, Moscow, Russia. |
| 1995 | One year in jail, Squint Caponnier museum, Kyiv, Ukraine. |
