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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Bio
Andrey Kozakov began his career as a teenager in Miami, FL, after emigrating to the US from Kyiv, Ukraine in the 1990s. He first exhibited his paintings in Miami, and studied film at the International Fine Arts College. After relocating to Cincinnati, he worked in design and restoration at a local furniture studio, then co-founded a small art and design gallery at the Pendleton Art Center, that evolved into Object Gallery in the Northside neighborhood, in 2014. He was selected as an inaugural artist for the first season of the Constella Festival, in 2011, and over the following years, showed at a number of galleries around Cincinnati, including Semantics, Thunder-Sky, Bromwell’s, Off Ludlow Gallery, C-LINK Gallery, ADC Fine Art, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Garden, and Wash Park Art.
Recent shows have included the European Cultural Centre’s 2024 exhibition, “Personal Structures: Beyond Boundaries”, in Venice, Italy; and “The Protest Art Exhibition” at UIMA, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, in Chicago. Additional highlighted shows include, “Trading Room” at The Carnegie, in Covington, KY; “Damavoi”, a solo show at RÖSK RYMI gallery in Akureyri, Iceland; and City in Springtime, a group show at the House of Actors, in Kyiv, Ukraine. He has been working on “Hermit House”, an interactive shelter and artist retreat, at Chateau Orquevaux, in Orquevaux, France, as an ongoing project, since 2020. He has exhibited for the last few years at SCOPE Art Show Miami Beach, and VOLTA Art Fair NY, with Cincinnati Art Underground gallery, and will appear at VOLTA Basel, in Basel, Switzerland, in 2025.
Artist Statement
Andrey Kozakov is a multi-disciplinary artist originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, whose work explores identity, belonging, and cultural memory. Through architectural paintings that portray real or imagined scenes encompassing dynamic city views, modern buildings and remembered landscapes, Kozakov shares a vision of creative world-building. His quiet, dream-like compositions suggest ongoing narratives, and question the changing nature of memory.