Natasha Rudenko

Natasha Rudenko uses photography and multi-media to interprets her personal experiences and transformations as a human being. She engages in self-reflection and investigates the realms of feelings, personhood and identity constructs through photography. 

Rudenko often uses her own body as a tool to express personal experiences and journeys. Using herself as a subject matter creates an additional tension juxtaposing herself as a subject and object of the creative process. Rudenko self-portraits are performative in their nature; they are constructed specifically for the camera and through embodying the duality of being both a subject and the object of the photographs she aims to re-claims and re-recognizes her identity. 

In her recent projects she focuses on exploring her identity as a feminist, an immigrant and a white female-presenting non-binary artist in contemporary society.

Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine Natasha Rudenko turned her lens to document and narrate the stories that are shaped in the sounds of the air sirens.

Natasha Rudenko graduated with an MFA in Photography from the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles in 2016, where she currently lives and works. In addition to being an artist she is also an educator, teaching degree and certificate programs at her Alma Mater and certificate programs at the UCLA Extension.

Natasha Rudenko has exhibited her work in the US and internationally as part of various group shows including New York, Los Angeles, Athens, Tempe, Budapest. Her work was also in a number annual publications of feminist and queer art, including Issues II and Femme Fotale Volume III Analog and Femme Fotale Volume IV Leafless.

In 2022 Rudenko had a solo-show of her project Be/longing at El Nido Art space in Los Angeles.