Tatyana Ostapenko

Tatyana Ostapenko was born and raised in Ukraine and moved to the US as a teenager in the late 1990s. She worked as a translator and in offices, painted her first picture after thirty, earned a BFA from Portland State University in 2015 and has painted full time since 2019. Her work has shown at the Odessa Contemporary Art Biennial, the Geoje International Art Festival in South Korea, Governors Island Art Fair in New York and the Cape Cod Art Museum. Her murals stand on SE Alder and at the Taylor Electric Building in Portland, at the Kalama library and in a Tukwila park near Seattle; in 2022 her artwork wrapped a Portland Streetcar vehicle. After the 2022 invasion she donated more than $60,000 in painting sales to Ukraine.