Anton Shebetko Biography
Anton Shebetko (he/him) is a Ukrainian artist, photographer, curator, and writer from Kyiv who currently lives in Amsterdam. His works focus on the issues facing the LGBTQIA+ community in Ukraine, themes of memory, loss of identity, multiplicity of history, and the role that photography and archival materials can play in revealing these stories. Most of his research is devoted to the forgotten queer history of Ukraine; part of it was recently published in his book "A Very Brief and Subjective Queer History of Ukraine".
His work has been exhibited at the FOAM Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Schwules Museum and nGbK am Alex in Berlin, Germany; Q21 Exhibition Space in Vienna, Austria; Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland; CENTQUATRE-PARIS in Paris, France; BWA Studio in Wroclaw, Poland; Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Germany; and PinchukArtCentre and Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv, Ukraine.
He participated in Kyiv Biennial in 2023 and was a nominee for PinchukArtPrize in 2025. He curated exhibitions and film programs for Schwules Museum, Melkweg Expo and WORM Rotterdam. He was a recipient of the RM Residency Award and the Where Love Is Illegal Fellowship. He gave talks and lectures at Maastricht University, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and Between Bridges Gallery.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
