About Myself
Alena Liapko is a multidisciplinary visual artist working across drawing, painting, and printmaking medias. Renowned for her **exceptional technical precision**, particularly in ballpoint pen drawing, her practice explores the tension between control and spontaneity, realism and abstraction.
Guided by both **rigorous skill and an intuitive approach**, Liapko moves fluidly between materials and processes, allowing each work to unfold organically. Her drawings often begin with hyperreal detail—portraits, textures, or spatial forms—before dissolving into gestural ambiguity and open-ended compositions.
Rather than offering fixed narratives, her artworks are designed to **ask questions rather than give answers**, often challenging the viewer’s assumptions and **presuppositions** about form, perception, and meaning. Each piece invites a space of contemplation and uncertainty, where interpretation remains fluid and unresolved.
Liapko’s work has been exhibited in group and solo shows across National Capital Region of Canada as well as internationally, and continues to evolve through her deep commitment to exploration and reinvention. She lives and works in Canada, Ottawa/Gatineau Area.
Exhibitions
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2024-- Creation of Banners and aPoster, forNorth American Summit of Belarusian Diasporas, hosted by Belarusian Canadian Alliance , Toronto, Canada
-- Exhibition during the event, Toronto, Canada
-- Instructors show at Ottawa Art School, Ottawa, Canada
--Creation of banners for Christmas culturelfestival “Kaliady”, organised by Belarussian Canadian Alliance , Ottawa Chapter, Ottawa, Canada
-- Creation of banners for a greetings of elected president of Belarus Svietlana Tsihanoyskaya by belarusian diaspora of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
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2024-- art show “Work on Paper”, “Gallery 55”,Ottawa, Canada
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2023-- Exhibition deducated to presentation of the book by Zina Gimpelevich, Ph.D “Belarusian Fine Art:Timeand time again”
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2022-2023 - Exhibitons with Belarusian Canadian Alliance
-- Greetings of the elected president of Belarus Svietlana Tsihanoyskaia by belarusian
diaspora of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
--“Freedom Day” celebration, Ottawa, Canada
--Cultural festival in Montreal, Canada
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2022-- instructors show at Ottawa Art School , Ottawa, Canada
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2016-2020 – featured artist at “Galerie Cote Creations” Gallery, 98 Richmond Rd, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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2017-2024 -- participated in Instructors Exhibitions with Ottawa Art School
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2018-- international exhibition “Horse/Kon/Лошадь” National Gallery Of Belarus, Belarus, Minsk
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2015-- "Lights&Landscapes"solo exhibition "Trinity"Art Gallery, Shenkman Arts Centre,Ottawa, Canada
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2014-- "Art and Parcel"exhibition R&S Gallery, Ottawa Art Gallery,Ottawa, Canada
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--"Visual Assembly"exhibition "Annex"Art Gallery of Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa City Hall , Ottawa, Canada
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--"Visage"Exhibition Shenkman Art Centre,Ottawa, Canada
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2009-- Canadian Visual Artists of Slavic Heritage Congress 2009 of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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2008-- Solo Exhibition "Winter City"“R&S Gallery” Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
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2008-- The Arts, National Identity and Politics in Belarus. Arsenal Centre For the Arts, Department of Slavic Languages, Harvard University, Boston(USA)
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2005-- International Exhibition
Branch Belarus National Museum of Arts of the Republic of Belarus. Mir Castle (Belarus)
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2004-- Solo exhibition “Radzivills” Branch Belarus National Museum of Arts of the Republic of Belarus. Mir Castle (Belarus)
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2000-- International Plener-Workshop of Exlibris Cryjova . Wroclaw(Poland)
