Oksana Shachko was a Ukrainian artist and activist.
10 Facts About Oksana Shachko
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Oksana Shachko graduated from this school and her early artwork was exhibited in several collective exhibitions in Ukraine and in the United States.
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Oksana Shachko then expressed the desire to join a convent and become a nun, but her mother and her family convinced her not to do so.
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Oksana Shachko founded with other students the "Center for New Perspectives", an organisation fighting against corruption and for student rights.
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Oksana Shachko later indicated in the documentary film I am Femen that this experience forged her political and philosophical conceptions, making her become an activist fighting for women's rights and freedom of expression.
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In 2008, together with Anna Hutsol and Alexandra Shevchenko, Oksana Shachko founded the feminist activist group FEMEN.
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Oksana Shachko worked together with French writer Galia Ackerman who produced a history of FEMEN which was published by Calmann-Levy in 2013.
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At the time of her death, Oksana Shachko was concentrating on her artworks, called Iconoclast: Orthodox icons painted in the traditional method, onto which she introduced transgressive details to confront religious dogma with feminist, political or humanist messages.
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Oksana Shachko had her first solo exhibition in Paris in May 2016.
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Oksana Shachko was found dead in her apartment in Paris, France, on 23 July 2018.