Scan from Tom Sachs / New expanded edition!!! / Gian Enzo Sperone (June 2000)
OKS (Oksana Todorova) is a New York-based multimedia artist. In 1993, OKS moved to Manhattan from the USSR, now Ukraine, and has been a New Yorker ever since. For over twenty years, from 1997 to 2021, OKS worked closely with American Contemporary Artist Tom Sachs. She specializes in pyrography, painting, illustration, and ceramics. Her extensive, ever-so-growing skillset manifests itself through a variety of mediums and scales, from her penny-sized porcelain miniatures to larger-than-life sculptures. Her creative practice is a play on themes of power, consumerism, music, sex, human relations, and female roles in modern society. She invites the daring and curious to experience how she filters the world with acerbic wit and deviance with a touch of class.
Her latest solo show "Have a Nice Day" at Isetan, Tokyo in September '21 featured an expansive selection of work, including a collaboration with Sanrio Inc. Other shows include the GHP (Greenwich House Pottery) artists exhibition, where OKS won the GHP award; ongoing group show Domestic Evil II & III at Soccer Club Club; solo show Toxic Vice at A+E Studios; Tom Sachs’s Bodega at the Brooklyn Museum; Palma, Palmiers, Palm at Dickinson Roundell, New York; Dicks at Fortnight Institute and Domestic Evil at Dickinson Roundell, New York. Her works are also featured in numerous private art collections including the Great Meadows Foundation.
OKS is the real deal. She produces everything exclusively by herself, no molds nor cheat sheets, in the East Village.
