Oxana Odaynyk

Oxana Odaynyk (born September 28, 1953, in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian painter and educator, recognized as a People’s Artist of Ukraine since 2013. She comes from a distinguished artistic family—her father, Vadym Odaynyk, was a People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, and her mother, Zoya Odaynyk-Samoylenko, was a Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.

She graduated from the Taras Shevchenko Art School in 1972 and the Kyiv State Art Institute in 1978, where she studied under prominent professors such as Oleksandr Lopukhov and Vasyl Gurin. Since 1979, she has been a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, and later of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

Odaynyk works primarily in easel painting, with a focus on lyrical landscapes, genre scenes, and portraits. Her style blends academic realism with personal symbolism and emotional depth. She has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad, and her works are part of museum and private collections.

She currently serves as an associate professor at the Department of Painting and Composition at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv.