Valentine Bo was born in 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), curated by M.Pedan.
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:
2019 FOAM London, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London, UK
2019 FOAM Talent, Red Hook Labs, New York, USA
2019 'FOAM Next Door', Foam Talent, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 'Embracing Diversity', Photo VOGUE Festival, Milan, Italy
2018 'Your Next Step would be to do the Transmission', PhotoKyiv Fair, Ukraine
2018 LANDSKRONA FOTO FESTIVAL, Landskrona, Sweden
2017 Execution of the food – PhotoKyiv, 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 – Panoptikon Fotografins Hus, 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, Galleri KG52, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 FLOW — 4 in 1 group project, YaGallery, Kiev, Ukraine
2012 Pravda — Vinzavod, Moscow
2012 New Picture Of Kiev – Lavra Gallery, curated by World Press Photo, Kiev, 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:
2019 The BJP International Photography Awards – second prize
2019 ONES TO WATCH, BJP – shortlisted
2018 BIRD IN FLIGHT PRIZE'18 – grand prize
2018 FOAM TALENT – winner
2018 Photo VOGUE Festival 2018, 'Embracing Diversity' – winner
2017 First Prize Photographer of the year, «Art Photography», M17 contemporary art center, Kyiv 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
Selected Publications:
- DAZED
- SLEEK magazine
- British Journal of Photography, ONES TO WATCH, Cover
- FOAM Magazine, #52 Talent
- HANT Magazine, #11 »Back To Reality«
Edition:
2013 «Voyeur» Edition of 100, Indie Publishing "NIICE"
2012 «FLOW» Edition of 500, Blancpress, 2012
Konstig Books, Stockholm