Oksana Shachko

Biography

Oksana Shachko was a Ukrainian artist and activist born on January 31, 1987, in Khmelnytsky, Ukraine. She co-founded the radical feminist group FEMEN with Anna Hutsol and Alexandra Shevchenko, focusing on combating sexual exploitation, income inequality, and Catholic Church policies through public demonstrations. Shachko's artistic career included exhibiting her work at collective exhibitions and painting frescoes in an Orthodox church from age twelve.