Polataiko was born in 1966 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. He studied painting, art history, and philosophy at the Moscow State Stroganov University of Fine and Industrial Arts, moving to Canada in 1989 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Saskatchewan. In 2002 Polataiko represented Ukraine at the 25th São Paulo Biennale and in 2009 he participated in the International Incheon Biennale in South Korea and Volta 5: Age of Anxiety in Basel, Switzerland. He is currently based in Lethbridge, Alberta.

In his paintings, photographs, sculpture, videos and performative installations, Ukrainian conceptual artist, Taras Polataiko deals with the history of the medium and develops projects that favour interactions. These pieces form a critique of societies’ control over their citizens, giving concrete shape to the imperceptible, just as they speak to us about intellectual contaminate.

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