I am a Ukrainian-American artist and non-profit founder based in San Francisco. I care deeply about digital privacy because I believe it to be a prerequisite for human agency and collective self-determination. Having witnessed how social media was weaponized during Russia’s information war against Ukraine beginning in 2014, I learned early that privacy is not abstract, it is the fragile boundary between persuasion and coercion. That experience shaped my focus on how digital systems quietly engineer belief, conflict, and public narrative.

My work is driven by the conviction that when privacy erodes, power concentrates. Intimate behavioral data becomes fuel for algorithmic systems that reward outrage, amplify falsehoods, and destabilize trust at scale. Through painting, murals, digital media, and mixed-reality experiments, I examine how these systems colonize perception: how what we see, fear, or desire is increasingly designed rather than chosen. I use beauty as an act of resistance: a way of insisting on slowness, reflection, and hope inside an economy built to fragment attention. As both an artist and a mother, I explore what it means to raise a human being within infrastructures optimized for surveillance and behavioral control.

Alongside my studio practice, I am a co-founder of several non-profit initiatives, including the SHACK15 Art Prize, Art Bae, Private Practice Art Residency, Paint the Void, Safety Net Fund, and Art for Civil Discourse. These projects are rooted in the belief that cultural resilience is a form of collective defense. Through these initiatives, my collaborators and I have directed over a million dollars into the hands of Bay Area artists.

My practice sits at the intersection of art and civic responsibility, committed to making visible the unseen forces shaping our reality and to reclaiming imagination, privacy, and agency in an increasingly algorithmic world.