Elena Chestnykh, a professional artist and art teacher. She lives and works in New York. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Erarta (MCAE) in Saint-Petersburg, the Art Center WINZAVOD, in Moscow, and Nord Art 2010, Rendsburg, Germany.

Chestnykh has had three solo shows in NYC - “Songs of Summer” at The Untitled Space Gallery (2023), “Woman in Landscape” at Space 776 Gallery (2022),  and“Urban Reflections” at Erarta Gallery (2013).  Also, she showed her artwork in group exhibitions at The Untitled Space,  Space 776, SFAprojects Gallery, The Royal Gallery in NYC, as well as at Trenton Artwork Center, NJ, and at Feminist Biennial, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago.