The Foundation Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition featuring the work of Oksana Kryzhanivska. The exhibition will run from September 2 to October 8, 2026, presenting sculpture, mixed reality, sound, and digital environments that give physical presence to the hidden processes of computation.
Bodies For Worlds Out There explores how the unseen workings of computation, concealed behind screens and data towers, can be encountered through embodied experience. Across sculpture, mixed reality, sound, and digital environments, the works give physical presence to virtual systems through movement and space. Virtual forms emerge as sculptural bodies, existing simultaneously as tangible objects and responsive digital entities.
As we speculate on the unseen virtual worlds, what happens when algorithms are given material form? We move around them, encounter them, and intersect them with our own bodies in mixed and augmented realities. Can we develop a different understanding, or an alternative relationship, with these systems of zeroes and ones? The exhibition invites viewers to reconsider where virtual bodies exist and how technologies shape the imagined worlds beyond perceived horizons.
Artist Talk & Reception
A reception will be held on September 24 from 3 to 5 PM in the Foundation Gallery, running concurrently with the reception for Made by Hand in the Mathis Gallery, also located in the Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for Arts & Humanities (the RITA).
Kryzhanivska will give an artist talk on October 8 at 2 PM in Bedford Hall at the RITA.
About Oksana Kryzhanivska
Oksana Kryzhanivska is a practicing artist and researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she heads the Creative Technologies area of the Studio Art major and the Game Art and Design certificate in the Art and Design Department at the Peck School of the Arts. She holds a Ph.D. in Computational Media and Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Calgary. Her scholarly work at the intersection of art, design, and computer science has resulted in publications and exhibitions at international venues, including ISMAR, ISEA, ICME, and ACM Multimedia, and has been featured in Canadian Art Magazine.
Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie and the Nickle Arts Museum, alongside a growing international presence across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, including Ars Electronica, Venice Arsenale Nord, and other media art platforms. Kryzhanivska has participated in artist residencies and collaborative art–science initiatives, contributing to experimental and research-driven creative communities. As an educator, she teaches across undergraduate and graduate levels, mentoring students in sculpture, creative coding, XR, and experimental media.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Admission is free and open to the public.
For more information, visit https://www.uwp.edu/therita/artgalleries.cfm or contact the Foundation Gallery at matthes@uwp.edu.