Oleksiy Sai is an artist who uses mixed media but is mainly known for his personal invention – the praxis of Exel-Art. Sai has been working with Excel software as a visual language resource since 2004. The first exhibition, entitled Excel-Art, was held at the Tsekh Gallery in Kyiv in 2007. Besides the fact that Sai sees the means of Excel as the most appropriate mode of addressing the office life realities, the artist’s choice to embrace the software developed to process large corpora of data is also an attempt to demystify art practice as such.

Oleksiy Sai was born in 1975 in Kyiv, where he lives and works to this day. He graduated from the Kyiv College of Arts and Industries with a degree in graphic design in 1993, and from the Department of Easel Graphic Art at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in 2001. PinchukArtCentre Prize nominee ’09, he is widely exhibited. Oleksiy Sai took part in many group and solo exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. His works were exhibited at Black Square Gallery (Miami, the USA), Saatchi Gallery (London, the UK), Bunsen Goertz Gallery (Nurembreg, Germany), PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art (Perm, Russia), etc.

View his portfolio here.

*Alight believes everyone should have the freedom to express themselves. As an humanitarian organization, we are mandated to be impartial and can only support conflict resolution through nonviolent means. As such, the proceeds from this piece will go entirely to the artists, rather than partially supporting Alight's ongoing humanitarian work.