Nataliia Hresko

Education:

Kyiv School of Photography, Ukraine, Kyiv, Contemporary Photography 2021-2023.
International Business Institute, Ukraine, Kyiv, Management, MBI program 2002-2003.

Awards and mentions:

2025

Longlist Aesthetica Art Prize 2025, UK.
Shortlist, Sony World Photography Award 2025, Open Competition, Object category.
Silver at the Tokyo International Foto Awards, Tokyo, in the professional category Fine Art – Still Life, series “Reflections on Memory”
Bronze award in the professional category Nature-Flowers at the Tokyo International Foto Awards, Tokyo, series “Arranging Flowers for Life”

2024

First place in the professional category “Nature/Flowers” at the International Photo Awards, Los Angeles, from the “I collect flowers for life” series
Special award “Top 5 Jury selection” in the Photobook category at the International Photo Awards, for the book layout of the “I collect flowers for life”, Los Angeles,
Winner in the Nature category at the 23rd Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Barcelona, “I collect flowers for life” series.
Gold award in the professional category Nature-Flowers at the Prix de la Photographie competition, Paris, series “I collect flowers for life”
Honorable mention at the Prix de la Photographie, Paris, in the professional category of Fine Art – Still Life, series “Thinking about of memory”

2023

The 1st place in the category Nature and Gold in the category Nature/Flowers at the Tokyo International Foto Awards, “I collect flowers for life” series.
Honorable mention at the International Photo Awards and ND Awards, “I collect flowers for life” series.
Honorable mention at the ND Awards and Finalist in the London International Creative Competition, “Without air” series.
Honorable mention at the Tokyo International Foto Awards, the International Photo Awards and the ND Awards, “Building a Temporary Home” series.

2022

Gold in the Still Life category, 2nd place in the Fine Art category in the Prix de la
Photographie competition, Paris, “From routines to inspiration, from fear to belief” series.
Bronze in Still Life at the Tokyo International Foto Awards.
Honorable mention at the ND Awards, International Photo Awards, Prix de la Photographie and a finalist in the London International Creative Competition, “Homesickness” series.

Exhibitions:

2025, Sovicille Creative Open-air Exhibition, Siena Photo festival, October – November.
2025, exhibition of winners Aesthetica Art Prize 2025, Йорк, September 2025 – January 2026.
2025, Exhibition of Seven, Ukrainian Diaspora Museum, May – June, Kyiv.
2025, group exhibition When Chestnuts Bloom in Kyiv, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Memorial Museum, May – August, Kyiv.
2024, exhibition of the winners of the Prix de la Photographie, Paris.
2024, Ukrainian contemporary photography, NU ART Gallery, Kyiv.
2024, exhibition of winners of the Tokyo International Foto Awards, Tokyo and Budapest.
2024, Contemporary Ukrainian photography, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv.
2023, ArtDoc Online Exhibition “Creative Photography”, Amsterdam.
2022, exhibition of the winners of the Prix de la Photographie, Paris.
2021, the group exhibition “Philosophy of minimalism”, Kyiv.

Publications:

ARTDOC Photography Magazine, issue 5, “Expressive Aesthetics”, р.16-33, Amsterdam, 2025.
FotoNostrum magazine, issue 23, Barcelona, 2024.
Form publishing house, book “100 contemporary Ukrainian photographers”, Paris, 2024.
ARTDOC magazine, Issue 4, The Netherlands, 2023.

Lectures:

Ukrainian-Danish Youth House, a lecture for the youth photo club titled “A Project-Based Approach to Photography.”, June 2025

Collections:

The works are in private collections in Ukraine, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. Also in the collection of the Korsak Museum of Contemporary Art in Ukraine.