Mychajlo Deneka is an artist living and working in Brooklyn,
NY. He is currently finishing his Bachelors in Fine Art for
Photography and Related Media at the Fashion Institute of
Technology. Deneka’s work was recently on view at The
Museum at FIT in the group show This Must be the Place.
He has assisted shoots working with Billy Porter and
photographer Duane Michals.
Making photographs that depict the sacred dynamic of
pleasure and pain is my driving force as an artist. Often
through religious symbolism and human sexuality, I explore
these dynamics and the complexity within them. I find it
liberating to explore and combine elements like
homoeroticism and catholic iconography, two things that
may not commonly live together through my work. Through
this I am able to enforce the complex dynamics of pleasure
and pain.
mychajlodenekastudio@gmail.com
@denekamychajlo
716-395-8992
EDUCATION
Fashion Institute of Technology
2022-2024
AAS Photography & Related Media
Fashion Institute of Technology