Oksana Rudko is a multimedia artist and sound researcher. Born in Siberia, Russia. She moved and lived in St. Petersburg from 2006 and in Moscow from 2019 to 2021. In 2022, she emigrated from Russia to Brazil. She lives and works in São Paulo.

In her art, she combines personal practice of migration with the placement of sound in uncharacteristic geographic locations, the collision of various media, and the transformation of photography into sound recordings and field audio recordings into images. She works between sound art, photography as a method of field recording, installation, intervention, visual-sound collage, video art, and text.

She won at the Sound of the Year Awards by the Radiophonic Institute(UK, London) in the Best Imagined Sound 2024 category with the project “Whisper of the Stars”. She also won the international open competition and participated in the biennial SACO1.2 "Dark Ecosystems" with her sound installation "Whisper of Stars" at the historic Pier in Antofagasta, Chile (2025).

In besides that, she participated in such exhibitions as: 6th Wrong Biennale, Tokyo, Japan (2024), 13ª Design Week in São Paulo, BAFU, São Paulo, Brazil (2024), 6th Bienal do Sertão de Artes Visuais, Cariri, Brazil (2023), 14th Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria, Zipper Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil (2023), TRESPASSING IS INHABITED, FLUC & FLUC WANNE, Vienna, Austria, 1st International Biennial of Art for the Future at the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Russia (2021), VII Moscow International Biennial of Young Art, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia (2020).

In addition, she won a scholarship and participation in the Silo – Arte e Latitude Rural artist residency in Serrinha do Alambari, Brazil (2023) and a scholarship from the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria (2021). She participated in the launch and Russian development of the international laboratory Aerocene of the artist Tomaso Saraceno, within the framework of the special program of the GARAGE museum, Moscow(2020-2021).

In 2020, she graduated from the Contemporary Art School “Free Workshops” of MMOMA. She also holds a degree in journalism from Khakass State University (2009).

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