Galena Pavlenko was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1969. Galena trained at the Ukrainian Art Academy. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in the Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Italy, the US and Canada. Her artwork is represented in the permanent collection of the National Museum of history of Ukraine, the permanent collection of Salmagundi Art Club, in New York, NY and the permanent collection of Ukrainian Museum in New York as well. She is based in New York where she lives with her husband and son. "Gelena's artworks contain something more meaningful than mere descriptions of flourishing nature. Her art offers an allegory of the whole natural world together with its eternal blooming. In her art one could easily discern a connection to magic realism, mainly because her breathtaking diligence and remarkable painting mastery reveal themselves in combination with the poetic perception of reality. Her paintings convey the perfection a la Durer, diligent crafting of poetic images and Renaissance principles of structuring of the universe of art." D. Korsun, leading Ukrainian fine art expert.