Biography
Anna Voitenko was born in 1979 in Kiev, Ukraine.
1997-2003 — she studied at the Kiev Polytechnic University of Ukraine (formerly NTUU KPI), the faculty of electrical engineering and automation.
2003 — she graduated from art school at the National House of Artists.
2004 — she graduated from the School of photojournalism at the newspaper Vechernie Vesti.
2003-09 — she worked as a photo editor, photographer and photojournalist in a number of media outlets:
2003-04 — newspaper Abrakadabra, photo editor;
2004-05 — magazine Beauty Time, photographer;
2003-06 — newspaper Vechernie Vesti, photojournalist;
2005-06 — Inter TV channel, photographer;
2006 — PHL photo agency, photojournalist;
2007 — newspaper Vechernie Vesti, photojournalist;
2007-09 — Simvol magazine, photojournalist.
Since 2009 — she has been an independent photojournalist and collaborates with leading international and Ukrainian agencies and magazines. Anna’s photos are published in numerous periodicals and on information resources: Kommentarii, Den, Segodnia, Gazeta po-Kievski, Vechernie Vesti, Zerkalo Nedeli, Kievsky Telegraf, Zhizn, Telenedelya, Argumenty & Fakty, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Weekly.ua, Simvol, Sho, Profil, Korrespondent, Ekspert, Fokus, Domus, Nash Dosug, 7+Semya, Telegid, Afisha, What’s On, Dfoto, Dcamera, Unian, PHL, AP, AFP, Tribuna, Obozrevatel, pro.UA.com.
Since 2012 — member of the Noga Creative Union.
Awards & Honors
2010 — Grand Prix of Best Photographer 2009.
2010 — Award from the Russian Photojournalism Development Fund 2009. Second place in category of series of Daily Life.
2010 — NOOR-Nikon masterclass in documentary photography.
2008 — Official Honorable Mention for the 2008 All Roads Photography Program.
2007 — Grant from the Swedish-Ukrainian photo project Urban Structures.
2006 — First place in the Contest of journalistic photography Psychiatry and Dignity of a Person.
2004 — Grand Prix in the competition Reinox.
Solo exhibitions
2018 — Iza, The Ukrainian Institute of America, USA.
2008 — Iza, Ya Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2010 — You are an Illusion (in the installation of Tiberius Silvashi Horizon), Ya Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2009 — Ad infinitum, Ya Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2007 — Education of Pity, 2nd Kiev Photo Biennale, Mystetskiy Kurin Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
Group exhibitions
2021 — NCU 15 years old, VI International festival of photography 'Fotokrok' named Sigismund Yurkovsky, Vitebsk Center of the Modern Art, Vitebsk, Belarus.
2020 — Noga Creative Union, Thin Line Photo Festival, Odessa Museum Western & Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine.
2012 — Anticyclone, Apartment 3 Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2012 — Outpost of Russian Photography, a joint exhibition project: the Museum of Organic Culture, Gallery of classical photography, Moscow, Russia.
2011 — Shade of grass, Ya Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2008 — 4×4 Ukrainian and Lithuanian contemporary photo project, gallery Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2007 — Urban Structures, Swedish-Ukrainian photo project, Centre for Contemporary Art, Kiev; Dzyga Gallery, Lviv; Kharkiv Municipal Gallery; Exit Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine.
2007 — Daily Life, Gallery in Bemov District, Warsaw, Poland.
2006 — Days of Kiev in Warsaw, National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
2006 — Psychiatry and Dignity of a Person, RA Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2005 — Orange Revolution, Municipal Gallery of the Bemovsk community, Warsaw, Poland.
2005 — War and Peace in Kiev Streets project, Second International Month of Photography in Kiev, Photo biennale 2005, Grifon Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2004 — Useless Time, Grifon Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine.
2004 — Art Photography, Central National Museum-Archive of Art and Literature of Ukraine, Kiev.
Bibliography
2008 — IZA, ArtBooks Publishing House, Kiev, Ukraine.
