Oxana Narozniak is a Ukrainian

Ukraine

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 artist born in Germany

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 and currently residing in Curitiba

Curitiba

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, Brazil

Brazil

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. She participated in the international art exhibition "Progress of the World's Women," shown at the United Nations

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 lobby as part of the U.N. "Women 2000" conference. Narozniak's work has also been exhibited at the Museo H. Stern in Rio De Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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 and at the São Paulo Museum of Art.