Valentine Bo

Valentine Bo
– B. 1985 in Lutsk, Ukraine
Now lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Education:
2007. NULP, Department of Architecture, Lviv, Ukraine.
2000. Children's Art School, Lutsk, Ukraine.
In 2010 became a member of UPHA — Ukrainian Photographic Alternative
(an independent group created to help and support development of Ukrainian contemporary photography)
Personal exhibitions:
2015 Execution of the food – Gogol Fest, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 Mystery Train – Lenin gallery, Zaporizhia, Ukraine
2011 Tempo di Viaggio — 5x5 gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
Group exhibitions:

2018 BASE - New Works (Italy)

2018 Kyiv Photo Fair (represented by gallery 5.6 store)

2018 LANDSKRONA FOTO FESTIVAL, Landskrona, Sweden
2017 Execution of the food – «Photo Kyiv» international art fair, Complex Toronto-Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Mythology – 'Come in' art gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2017 Photographer of the year, M17 contemporary art center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Execution of the food – Odesa / Batumi Photo Days, Odesa, Ukraine
2015 GogolF, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 Love and war in Ukraine – Spine festival, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 ULICA – The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow
2014 Moscow Biennale for Young Art
2014 Photographer of the year, M17 contemporary art center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 FLOW — 4 in 1 group project, Winston Salem, USA
2013 Cult Of The Body – Leisure Gallery, London, UK
2013 FLOW — 4 in 1 group project, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznan, Poland
2013 FLOW — 4 in 1 group project, Gallery KG52, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 FLOW — 4 in 1 group project, YaGallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 Pravda — Vinzavod, Moscow
2012 New Picture Of Kiev – Lavra Gallery, curated by World Press Photo, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 To the Ukraine — group project, Diplomat gallery, Philadelphia
2011 The Most Important Lesson — UPHA Chernihiv photo festival, Ukraine
2010 Ukrainian photography, two points of view — Ra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Awards:

2018 Bird in Flight Prize - winner

2018 FOAM TALENT – winner
2018 Photo VOGUE Festival 2018 , 'Embracing Diversity' exhibition – winner
2017 First Prize Photographer of the year, «Art Photography», M17 contemporary art center, Kyiv

Publication: 

2019 HANT - Magazin für Fotografie;

Ukraine
2016 Shortlisted for «Dostoevsky List», The Most Actual Contemporary Photographers from Russia and
Ukraine. Amsterdam, NL
2014 Shortlisted for Photographer of the year , M17 contemporary art center, Kyiv, Ukraine