Eliza Okinitskaya

Born in 1990 in Moscow, Russia, the artist Eliza Olkinitskaya lives and works in Montreal since 2012. With a bachelor’s degree in visual and media arts from UQAM, she is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is at the crossroads of the visual arts, animated film and theatre. Olkinitskaya has exhibited at Galerie de l’UQAM, GHAM & DAFE, Magasin d’Arprim, centre d’essai en arts imprimés, and Maison de la culture Maisonneuve, interdisciplinary art festival Le Maquis. In 2018, she participated in the Chantier de recherche sur l’image imprimée et photographique, a group residency at L’imprimerie, centre d’artistes. In 2019, she spent four months in the Moscow studio Tseh animatsii during a residency at Noise-Anima Lab. The performanceVoilà ce qui fait ce bruit, resulting from this residency, was presented at TSTI Fabrika (Moscow) in the winter of 2020