BIO
Olga Feshina at her exhibit New Tech Girls - VR Friends in Google New York January 18 2019
Olga Feshina is a multidisciplinary analog and digital artist based in New York. She grew up in Kazakhstan, where she trained as a fashion and costume designer. Olga attended Karaganda Art School and focused on painting and photography. Later, she studied contemporary costume design at Kazakh National Academy of Arts. Her training as a designer has heavily influenced her painting style, which includes formal elements of cartoons and digital illustrations. In 2013, the interdisciplinary creative practitioner moved to New York.
Feshina exhibited artworks from her ongoing series “New Tech Girls” at Google’s office in New York and at a booth for NYAFAIR in Tribeca. Most recently, NYA Gallery in collaboration with Gallery 104 presented a new body of work by the artist: “New Tech Girls—Bikini Issue”, and later pop-up show “Ice Balance. Selfie with Mask” in New York. She has had solo exhibitions and shows at Gallery Tvorchestvo (Moscow); the Shchusev Museum of Architecture (Moscow); Paris sur Mode (Paris); and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia. Among her many design accolades, she created the world’s first sporting uniform for chess - a commission from the International Chess Federation (FIDE). A new digital part of Feshina’s ongoing series New Tech Girls and Inner Child was minted as NFT on Snark.art and Opensea.io.
She has been featured in a number of notable publications, such as W Magazine, Wallpaper*, Esquire, FAD Magazine, Dwell, Women Love Tech, ELLE, Bazaar, L'Officiel etc.
The artist makes research how gadgets and technologies change human behavior and perception of reality and have an adverse impact on the psychological development of consciousness today. Specifically, Feshina investigates how people are obsessed with tech gadgets and explores their frozen gestures and poses in relation to these objects.