Alena Semchyshyn

Alena Semchyshyn (born 1985, Maladzyechna, Belarus) is a graphic artist and illustrator. She studied at the Akhremchik Republican College of Arts in Minsk and graduated from the Graphic Arts Department of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts in 2010 under Uladzimir Savich. She moved to Lviv that year and joined the Belarusian Union of Artists in 2013.

Her practice includes printmaking, watercolour, pastel, collage, tempera, acrylic and photography. Exlibris form part of her graphic work; she has participated in international bookplate exhibitions, including Il Bosco Stregato in Italy.

Semchyshyn has exhibited internationally and held solo exhibitions of graphic art and photography in 2009. Her distinctions include second prize at the SINAIDE GHI watercolour competition in Rome in 2008 and third prize at the International Kościuszko Exlibris Competition in Poland in 2010.