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Sasha Opeiko (b. 1986 in Minsk, Belarus) lives and works in Windsor, ON. Her practice varies between painting, drawing, media, sculpture and design. Sasha received a BFA from the University of Windsor (2009) and an MFA from University of Victoria (2012). Her work has been exhibited at Artcite Inc. (Windsor), Thames Art Gallery (Chatham), Deluge Contemporary Art (Victoria), and Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati, OH). In addition to her individual art practice, she works collaboratively with her partner Martin Stevens on an ongoing, object-based basis. Their installation Third Line was exhibited at the 2014 International Zizek Studies Conference: Parallax Future(s) in Art and Design, Ideology and Philosophy.

She is a recipient of several grants, such as the Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant to Visual Artists (2015), the Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists: Emerging Grant (2016), the City of Windsor’s Arts Culture and Heritage Fund (2017), and OAC’s Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant (2019). In 2016, Sasha participated in the AIR Studio Paducah Residency (Paducah KY) and the BAiR Late Winter Intensive program at the Banff Centre (Banff AB) to develop her project 217 (Elephant’s Foot). Her most recent body of work, when people came out of the forest there was nothing, was shown as a solo exhibition at SB Contemporary Art (Windsor).