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His work has been published in Forbes, National Geographic, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, The Economist, among others. Chekachkov’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including at Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv), the Ukrainian Museum (New York), Odesa Photo Days, Photo Elysée, Fisheye Gallery, Open Eye Gallery, Stills Gallery, and many others.
Chekachkov holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Kharkiv State University of Radio Electronics and an M.A. in Art History from Kharkiv State Academy of Arts and Design. In 2022, he was awarded a Chevening Scholarship to pursue an M.A. in Photography: The Image and Electronic Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is currently based.
07.2014 Tea Factory Gallery, Odesa
10.2014 La Quatrième Image, Paris
11.2014 Festival of Contemporary Art “Terra Futura”, Kherson
12.2014 solo exhibition at COME IN gallery, Kharkiv
02.2015 short movie for festival “Bring Us Your Woman” in USA
07.2015 solo exhibition at Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris
09.2015 Ukrainian Cultural Center, Los Angeles
10. 2015 Ukrainian Museum, New York
11.2015 COME IN gallery, Kharkiv
01.2016 solo exhibition in Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv
03.2016 exhibition in French Institute of Alexandria, Egypt
04.2016 Lavra gallery, Kyiv
06.2016 Municipal Gallery during night if museums, Kharkiv
08.2016 Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv
04.2017 Selection for the main exhibition in festival Odesa Photo Days
09.2017 solo exhibition Art Area DK, Kharkiv
04.2018 Eyes on Main Street Wilson Outdoor Photo Festival, USA
05.2018 solo exhibition in Come In art gallery, Kharkiv
05.2018 exhibition during Sloboda Kult Festival, Uzgorod
05.2018 Art Area DK, Kharkiv
07.2018 exhibition in Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
08.2018 festival Donaube Dialogs, Novi Sad
10.2018 EEP Berlin, Berlin
11.2018 Lovaas, Munich
12.2018 Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv
12.2018 Jour et Nuit Culture, Paris
02.2019 CEPA gallery, Buffalo, New York
04.2019 Metaculture, Kyiv
05.2019 Tbilisi Art Fair, Tbilisi
06.2019 Akt Art Space, Kyiv
07.2019 Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odesa
09.2019 solo exhibition during HYBRID art festival, Madrid
11.2019 Dongsung Market Art Project in Daegu, South Korea
12.2019 Klaipeda gallery, Klaipeda
01.2020 Closer, Kyiv
07.2021 Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
09.2021 Interphoto Festival, Bialystok
11.2021 Klaipeda gallery, Klaipeda
07.2022 Maison de la Photographie, Lille
08.2022 Galeria w Zajeździe, Dworek Kultury Białoprądnick, Krakow
09.2022 Ukrainian House, Kyiv
11.2022 Photo Elysee, Lausanne
02.2023 Fish Eye gallery, Paris
05.2023 Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
08.2024 Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
09.2024 solo exhibition during Interphoto Festival, Bialystok
10.2024 Turnpike Gallery, Wigan
02.2025 The Parliament of the UK, London
02.2025 French Institute, Berlin
04.2025 Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
08.2025 Ukrainian House, Kyiv
2021 Interphoto Grand Prix
2022 Chevening Scholarship
2023 The Photographers' Gallery The New Talent
2023 Dummy Award Shortlist
Books:
2018 Ukrainian Erotic Photography, Osnovy Publishing
2021 Ukrainian Photographic Alternative, Booksha publishing
2021 Igor Chekachkov “NA4JOPM8”, ist publishing
2021 "Independent: The History of Ukraine in Photographs"
2024 "Spalah: Ukrainian Photography 2022-2023"
2025 Igor Chekachkov "The Mayor’s Funeral", MOKSOP
Selected publications:
10.2014 Opera magazine, Germany
11.2014 5.6 magazine
06.2015 P3, Portugal
2016 VASA Project
2019 SupportYourArt
2020 Bird In Flight
2022 British Journal of Photography
2022 FOAM Magazine