Alexis Olin (born in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, illustration, and textile design. His career spans more than two decades and is shaped by a lifelong fascination with visual systems, emotional patterns, and habitual processes. Known for fusing precision with instinct, his work explores the tension between structural control and raw expression.
Olin began his artistic journey in the early 2000s as editor in chief of K9, a cult Ukrainian comics magazine that ran for nearly a decade. Deeply influenced by the Franco Belgian tradition of graphic novels, his early practice laid the foundation for a visual language built on rhythm, symbolic repetition, and clean linework. Later, fashion and photography expanded this vision. In 2016, he founded Métrique, a clothing label translating his paintings and photographic works into wearable forms.
In recent years, his practice has evolved into a hybrid dialogue between analog and digital media. His paintings, sculptures, and visual works created with acrylic, oil pastel, spray paint, photography, and digital techniques explore the intersection of habit and emotion, discipline and release. Recurring symbols including gloved hands, eyes, blades, rabbits, and abstract geometric forms appear throughout his work, evoking memory, childhood ritual, obsessive focus, and the fragile balance between tension and calm.
Alongside painting, Olin has recently expanded into sculpture through the creation of collectible rabbit figures that extend the emotional and symbolic universe of his paintings into physical form. These sculptural works combine toy culture, contemporary art, and personal mythology, continuing his interest in repetition, identity, and meditative states.
Olin’s work has been exhibited across Europe, the United States, and Asia through contemporary galleries, independent exhibitions, and digital art platforms. For Alexis, every medium whether canvas, sculpture, textile, photography, or digital space becomes a language for emotional transmission. At the core of his practice lies a belief that clarity in art emerges not only from inspiration, but from repetition, persistence, and the quiet discipline of returning to the work every day.
- 1999 - 2009 Publications of comics and illustrations in cult Ukrainian magazines "Extreme", "K9" and "Moloko"
- 2001 - 2009 Project Coordinator/Editor-in-Chief of the Ukrainian magazine of graphic novels and illustrated stories "K9"
- 2005 Organizer of the International Festival of graphic novels and comics '9 World', Planetarium (Kyiv)
- 2006 Participation in the jury of the 33rd Angoulême International Comics Festival. More than 200 000 visitors (Angoulême, France)
- 2008 Organizer of the International Festival of graphic novels and comics '9 World', art gallery "Lavra" (Kyiv)
- 2009 - 2013 Art director of "9 World Agency
- 2013 Youth Award at Festival International de Peinture (La Ferté-Bernard, France), Collective exhibition, Arca Gallery (Calpe, Valencia, Spain), Collective exhibition Red Bull Project Canvas (Kyiv), Collection of illustrations "Colors" for clothes by designer Bicholla (Georgia)
- 2014 Personal exhibition "Cold Shining", Shcherbenko Art Center (Kyiv)
- 2015 Collective exhibition Red Bull Canvas Cooler (Kyiv)
- 2015 Personal exhibition "Animals and Spaces", Index50 (Kyiv)
- 2016 - 2022 Founder and art director of Ukrainian clothing brand "Métrique",
- Cover for the album Monatik.
- 2016 - 2022 Collections of illustrations and photographs for Métrique prints
- 2017 Personal photo exhibition "District Chronicles", Selekta (Kyiv)
- 2019 Personal photo exhibition "On my way", Rina Lovko studio (Kyiv)
- 2022 Collective exhibition Une Collection De Photographies YellowKorner, La Hune in St Germain des Prés, YellowKorner Gallery, (Paris, France)
- 2022 Collective charity 35mm photo exhibition / Closer, (Kyiv)
- 2022 Collective exhibition Black And White Photography / P46 Gallery, Italy
- 2022 Collective exhibition Ukraine Collective / Web Summit (Lisbon, Portugal)
- 2022 Nephel's Dream / Lezar House gallery (Barcelona, Spain)
2023
- Nephel's Dream / BAO Lab (Lisbon, Portugal),
- Nephel's Dream / Pyratzlabs (Paris, France),
- Nephel's Dream / Non Fungible Conference (Lisbon, Portugal),
- Nephel's Dream / ETH Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain),
- Nephel's Dream / Refraction (Paris, France),
- Collective exhibition / European Blockchain Convention (Barcelona, Spain),
- Let Art Be Digital / Collective exhibition / Lezar House gallery (Barcelona, Spain),
Collective exhibition / NFT Factory Paris (Paris, France)
2024
- Deeep Art Fair / Collective art exhibition, Strouk Gallery (Paris, France),
- Metaversal during NFT Paris / collective art exhibition (Paris, France),
- NFT NYC: Stellar event by Obscura / collective photo exhibition (NY, USA),
- Non Fungible Conference / solo exhibition at Lezar House gallery (Lisbon, Portugal),
- Collective art exhibition / Web3 Society: Art, Culture & Gaming (Lisbon, Portugal),
- Collective art exhibition / Artverse gallery (Paris, France)
- The Web3 Gallery Night / Collective art exhibition / Lezar House gallery (Barcelona, Spain)
- Collective art exhibition / International NFT Exhibition 'GM BUDAPEST!' (Budapest, Hungary)
- Collective exhibition / 12 Edition, El Diluvio Universal Gallery, Barcelona
2025
- Collective art exhibition by ArtBeesGallery x NONE32X32 "The Comedian x Banana Republic" at ArtGoldenGai Gallery (2-5-1 Ebisu-Nishi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0021, Japan)
- Collective art exhibition by Punk6529 Community "The MEMES" / Lezar House gallery (Barcelona, Spain)
- Solo exhibition, May 1-14, ArtVerse Gallery (5 bis Rue de Beauce, 75003 Paris, France)