Ukrainian artist and documentary photographer Alena Grom was born in Donetsk. In April 2014, she was compelled to leave her hometown due to the military conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Since 2017, she has resided in Bucha, a town near Kyiv. Following the full-scale invasion of Russia in February 2022, Grom and her family became refugees for the second time, but returned after Bucha was de-occupied.
These experiences have profoundly influenced her artistic practice. Photography has served as a lifeline for her, allowing her to confront the traumatic realities of war. Since 2016, Alena Grom has centered her work on locations affected by military aggression, capturing the lives of war victims, migrants, refugees.
Grom operates at the confluence of social reporting and conceptual photography, often working on her themes from the front lines. She perceives her “mission” as documenting the lives of individuals caught in the “gray zones” or near military conflicts. Through her photographs, she aims to inform the global community about the complexities of wartime life, the tragedies of
Importantly, her images do not exist merely as illustrations of sorrow or grief. One of her primary themes is the persistence of life amidst adversity.
Alena Grom has received recognition as a laureate and winner in numerous international photography contest:
2025 Sony World Photography Awards 2025 /Shortlist/ Exhibition;
2025 ERSTE Foundation /Vienna.Austria/ Exhibition;
2025 Embracing Our Differences/Florida.Sarasota/ Exhibition;
2024 L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards — ‘Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet’ /PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR; >>>
2024 North East South West — Beyond the wall/ Spazio Mostre I / Venice.Italy / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries/ Chicago.USA / Women at War: 12 Ukrainian Artists / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Head On Photo Festival 2024 / Sydney. Australia / Bondi Beach Promenade / Exhibition; >>>
2024 L.A. Photo Curator: Global Photography Awards — ‘Where Photography & Philanthropy Meet / Los Angeles USA /A THOUSAND WORDS / The main prize; >>>
2024 Glendale Central Library / California.USA / Between war and nostalgia: Ukrainian trajectory / Exhibition; >>>
2024 London Image Festival / London. England / The main prize; >>>
2024 Doordom Gallery / Photography Exhibition & Competition Vol IV / (BE)LONGING / Online exhibition; >>>
2024 Dymchuk Gallery / Kyiv. Ukraine / Mavky.Camouflage / Personal exhibition; >>>
2024 Art Center M17 / Kyiv. Ukraine / Endurance Formula / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Hollywood Best Indie Film Awards/ Honorable Mention; >>>
2024 Praxis Gallery/ Minnesota. USA / Juror’s Choice / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Urban Journey of Palermo /Palermo.Italy/ Mavki / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Siena Creative Photo Awards / Siena. Italy /Second place; >>>
2024 Photometria Festival 2024 /Municipal Gallery of Ioannina / Ioannina. Greece / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Labyrinth Gallery / Lublin.Poland / «100 Years in the Labyrinth»;»War and Peace?» / Exhibition; >>>
2024 International Photography Contest Category / 14th international@picture.award / Finalist; >>>
2024 KLPA International Portrait Photography Prize/ Kuala Lumpur, Temu House. Malaysia /Finalist/ Exhibition; >>>
2024 10th International Jalon Angel Photography Prize/ Archive of photographs of Jalón Ángel in collaboration with the University of San Jorge in collaboration with the Service of Cultural Affairs / Overall Winner in the Portrait Category; >>>
2024 International Photography Competition / The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts / Florida. USA / Second place / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Fotografia al Femminile Award/The main prize / National Roman Museum DI PALAZZO MASSIMO / Rome. Italy / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Fine Art Photography Awards/ Professional Photographer of the Year / The main prize; >>>
2024 LensCulture Portrait Awards United Kingdom / Finalist; >>>
2024 Shevchenko Prize / Ukraine / Semi-final / Laureate ; >>>
2024 Art gallery. UCC Berlin/ Berlin. Germany / JOLKA: SYMBOL OF THE REVOLUTION OF DIGNITY / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Museo Civico / Bari.Italy / Mostra ‘Contra Spem Spero’ / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Art Gallery.University of Manitoba / Manitoba. Canada / Women at War / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Paris Gare de l’Est / Paris. France / L’Ukraine en guerre, sous le regard de 6 photographes / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Vassar College /New York. USA / Unbreakable:The Women Photographing Two Years of Ukraine’s Resilience / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Photography Award Finalists /Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize/ Finalist; >>>
2024 FORMAT24 / England. Leicester / Future Now / Exhibition; >>>
2024 Xposure International Photography Awards / Sharjah. UAE / The main winner of the festival ; >>>
2024 Fish Eye Gallery / Paris. France / Exhibition of IWPA Award Edition finalists; >>>
2023 PO PRVI PUT / Belgrade. Serbia / Behind the Screen / Exhibition; >>>
2023 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.Abramovych Art Agency / Kyiv. Ukraine/ People live here / Exhibition; >>>
2023 Centro de la Imagen / Ciudad de Mexico /International Women In Photo Association/ Exhibition; >>>
2023 Municipal Аrt Center in Lviv / Gareley neotodresh/ Lviv. Ukraine. /Triangle and straight line/ Exhibition; >>>
2023 UBIENNALE: AWAKENING / Museum of the History of the City / Kyiv. Ukraine. / Exhibition; >>>
2023 Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan /Tokyo. Japan. / Exhibition of the 7th Edition of the International Women in Photo Award /Exhibition; >>>
2023 Warchive и CFF – Centrum för fotografi / Sweden / Under attack with the Ukrainian Archive/ Exhibition; >>>
2023 Head On Portrait Awards 2023 / Sydney. Australia / Short list / Exhibition; >>>
2023 Silver Street Studios/Houston/ Fighting: Ukrainian War Photographers /Exhibition; >>>
2023 — INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN PHOTO AWARD / Finalist >>>
2023 World Photo Annual by reFocus Awards / Bronze >>>
2023 University Museum of Fine Artsс/ State Florida / Women at War/ Exhibition; >>>
2023 Verwalter Haus/ Berlin / TruthTrustTrees / Exhibition; >>>
2023 Farm Cultural Park / You know that you are a person / Mazzarino.Italy / Exhibition; >>>
2023 Biennial Photo Festival ‘Lens On The Peaple’ /Belgium / «They fight for us too» / Exhibition; >>>
2023 VASA/Writings On the Wall and Inscriptions/ Exhibition >>>
2023 Photometria Awards. Judged by Martin Parr/1st place/ Finalist/Greece /Exhibition; >>>
2023 Mattatoio di Roma. Contemporary art museum /Berlin /Odesa Photo Days. “Contra Spem Spero. Stories from Ukraine” / Exhibition; >>>
2023 Galerie Eigenheim Weimar/ Germany / You know that you are a person / Exhibition; >>>
2023 LensCulture Portrait Awards United Kingdom / Finalist / Publication. Exhibition; >>>
2023 Sweden / Rikstolvan Gallery/ It’s a Mad, Mad World / Personal exhibition; >>>
2023 Stanford, Washington. / Women at War / Washington Gallery / Exhibition; >>>
2023 Berlin / You know that you are a person / MOMENTUM.Berlin / Exhibition; >>>
2023 Cheb, Czech Republic / Galerie 4 — galerie fotografie / They fight for us too / Exhibition; >>>
2023 Paris / VISIBLES MMXXIII / Gallery Labo/ Exhibition
2023 Moldova. Kishinev / Culture Square / Exhibition; >>>
2023 Leipzig. Germany / «INDEPENDENCE! Photographs of Ukraine 1991-2022» / Museums of Modern History / Exhibition; >>>
2022 London International Creative Competition / Finalist >>>
2022 GOMMA PHOTOGRAPHY Grant / Finalist >>>
2022 Tokyo International Foto Awards / Prize Gold >>>
2022 Tokyo International Foto Awards / Prize Silver >>>
2022 Berlin Zionskirche / «You Know That You Are Human» / Exhibition; >>>
2022 Ukraine. Kyiv / «War through the lens: photos from Ukraine» / Exhibition; >>>
2022 USA Atlanta / «Ukraine on my mind» / Exhibition; >>>
2022 Southern Utah Museum of Art / «Reclaiming Agency: Ukrainian Women Photographers Today»/ Exhibition; >>>
2022 Ukrainian House / Kyiv / «Flash. Ukrainian photography today»/ Exhibition; >>>
2022 International Photography Awards “Best of Show 2022” by this year’s curator, Dr Mark Sealy / New York / Exhibition; >>>
2022 Philadelphia/ Gallery Print Center/ Ukrainian Photography Today / Exhibition; >>>
2022 International Photography Awards / 1st Place / Editorial / Press/ Contemporary issues; >>>
2022 Kranj Foto Fest / Slovenia / Exhibition «How Are You, Living In a War-Torn Country?»; >>>
2022 Eastern Connecticut State / Art Gallery of the Univeristy/ Exhibition «Women at War»;>>>
2022 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program. New York/ Video art show >>>
2022 Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3) / Gold in Portraiture/ Family, Gold in Portraiture/Children, 1st Place winner in Portraiture / Exhibition;>>>
2022 Państwowa Galeria Sztuki in Sopot / Poland / Stan wyjątkowy / Exhibition; >>>
2022 Fridman Gallery New York / Women at War / Exhibition; >>>
2022 House of Lucie Budapest Gallery / Ukraine Moments/ Exhibition;>>>
2022 Academy of Fine Arts / «Today dreams smell like heat»/Warsaw/Czapski Palace/ Exhibition; >>>
2022 PALESTINE — UKRAINE / eastFOTO gallery.Gruenewald / Germany / Exhibition; >>>
2022 Moments among the ruins. Documentary photos from Ukraine /Graz Austria / Exhibition;>>>
2022 Biennale of the photography section ULUPUH «vizura // reboot». Zagreb. / Exhibition; >>>
2021 Mystetskyi Arsenal / Sensitivity. Modern Ukrainian photography / Group exhibition >>>
2020 PHOTO KYIV 2020 / Gallery 5.6 >>>
2020 VASA Exhibition Film/Video >>>
2020 VASA Exhibition >>>
2020 Kolga Tbilisi Photo /Сonceptual category / Shortlist >>>
2020 COCA2020. Center on Contemporary Art / Finalist >>>
2019/20 UPHA In Da Office in StarLightMedia / Ukraine / Group exhibition >>>
2019 Zamosc Festival Poland / Exhibition; >>>
2019 UPHA Made in Ukraine / Group exhibition >>>
2019 Alchemy of motivation / Institute of Problem Contemporary Art/Kiev.Ukraine / Group exhibition >>>
2019 Media addiction. Ukrainian version / National Center «Ukrainian House»/ Group exhibition >>>
2018 YICCA International Contest of Contemporary Art / Finalist / Exhibition; >>>
2018 The Tokyo International Foto Awards / Silver >>>
2018 International Photographer Of The Year USA /Second place; >>>
2018 Kaunas Photo Star Lithuania / Finalist / Exhibition; >>>
2018 LensCulture Portrait Awards United Kingdom / Finalist / Publication. Exhibition; >>>
2018 Slovak Press Photo / Finalistс; >>>
2018 International Photography Awards USA / Honorary Award; >>>
2018 Gallery Black Box Portland USA / Publication. Online exhibition; >>>
2018 Bronx Documentary Center USA / Publication. Exhibition; >>>
2018 PhotogrVphy Grant USA / Short list; >>>
2017 10 NBPC SALON OF PHOTOGRAPHY India / Short list / Exhibition;
2017 Fairmount Ave Art Philadelphia, USA / Exhibition by Iryna Glik;
2017 Kolga Tbilisi Photo Georgia / Short list/ Publication, Exhibition; >>>
2017 PhotOn Festival International Festival of Photojournalism Spain/ Short list / Exhibition; >>>
2017 ANIMA MUNDI festival Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi Venice / Publication, Exhibition; >>>
2017 Bogotà, at Jorge Jurado Gallery Colombia/ Exhibition; >>>
2016 PHOTOGRAPHY SALOON «STROM» / Silver medal The Royal Photographic Society / Exhibition; >>>
2016 Lion City International Salon Singapore /2nd place / Exhibition; >>>
2016 LivePressPhoto Ukraine / Bronze medal / Exhibition; >>>
2016 93th Scottish International Salon of Photography / Short list / Publication. Exhibition;
2016 Grand Photo Salon 2016 Ukraine/ Short list / Exhibition;
2016 Pavlovka Gallery / Personal exhibition; >>>
2016 «Оpplev Ukraina!» /Norway/ Varatun Gård / “Experience Ukraine!” Exhibition;
2016 «Pottery Country Visions» Ukraine / Exhibition;
2015 «My best photo Ukraine» / 2nd place/ Exhibition;
2014 «#EuroMaidan: Rising for Freedom and Democracy in Ukraine» Canada / participation in the project/Book;
2012 V International Photo Contest «PhotoVintage» /2nd place Ukraine / Publication. Exhibition;
Now the author is working on her own photo book.