About

Mykola Haleta is an artist, educator, graphic designer, pattern designer, and sound and image researcher based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Mykola Haleta is an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Mykola’s work utilizes improvisation, mathematics and rule sets in the development of new pattern systems, textiles, typography, performance and sound design. His visual vernacular stems from an entanglement of cybernetic systems, diatoms, Apophenia (Pareidolia), B-movie (raw) special effects, combinatorics (graph theory), Anthropod design, microchip design and crystallography. Textile patterning, graphic design and Op-Art converge with his personal lexicon of techniques, systems and processes which can be seen in both his sound, performance and visual work. Michael’s work has been featured in Zoo York/New York Skateboards, SF Weekly, Shout NY, De:Bug, The WIRE, Final Cut Pro 4: The Art of Filmmaking, Tokion, The Sound Collector, BLOCK, XLR8R and Giant Robot among others.

Michael Mykola Haleta has a BFA from MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) where he studied graphic design with Ellen Lupton, J. Abbott Miller, Linda van Deursen, Armand Mevis, Whitney Sherman and Philippe Apeloig. In 2017 he received an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from The School of Art and Design at The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, NY.

Haleta’s audio compositions and performance projects have been performed and presented nationally and internationally at festivals, galleries, and institutes including: Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany; London Contemporary Music Festival, London, UK, SXSW, Austin, Texas; Issue Project Room, NY, NY, Whitney Museum Graduate Program, NY, NY; Under Bron, Stockholm, Sweden; Roulette, NY, NY; Blue Room, Washington, DC; Open Video Projects, Rome, Italy; Ottobar, Baltimore, MD; and Transmissions Festival, Chicago, Illinois among others.

In early 2024, Mykola and Dathan Boardman are scheduled to launch Opticeaux, a font + pattern foundry based in downtown Eau Claire. 

Always open to collaborating with like-minded human beings!
Currently available for collaborations, design work, ideation and concept development, illustrations, design consultation, freelance projects and commissions. Get in touch! mykolahaleta at gmail dot com
CV: Simply email me!

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Please email me if you’d like to use or reproduce my work. If you would like to use any of my pieces for educational purposes you may do so only if you email notify me first and include a citation.  :)