About

Mykola Haleta is a Ukrainian-American multidisciplinary artist working across graphic and motion design, typography, sound, and visual art.* His practice centers on complex patterning systems, often inspired by cybernetics, combinatorics, and folk art traditions and rituals such as Vyshyvanka and Pysanky, as well as B-movie aesthetics. Haleta’s modular, process-based works—ranging from typographic sculptures to layered textile and sound pieces—explore mutation, reconfiguration, and decay; the breakdown of systems over time. Drawing from a personal lexicon of techniques and influences like pareidolia, graph theory, arthropod design, visual illusions and microchip design, his pieces evolve through layered algorithms, and “logic-chains” where visual and structural corruption signals completion. Mykola Haleta is an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Nevada, Reno. His 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. 

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, visuals and performance projects have been performed and presented nationally and internationally at festivals, galleries, and institutes including: Sonar, Barcelona, Spain, 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.

Throughout the past two decades, Mykola Haleta has collaborated with a wide range of artists, bands, studios and musicians such as: Max Cooper, Jeremy Sigler, Lexie Mountain, Keith Rowe, Zbigniew Karkowski, Rick Reed, Matt Wellins, WZT Hearts, French Mistake, Voltage Spooks, Cutter/Hammer, Kasper Toeplitz, illust. (AR Studios), Travess Smalley, Scott Smallwood, Stephan Moore, Kevin Winter (2673), Dan Deacon, Pooch Karton, Lee Noble, Dathan Boardman, Oswald Berthold, Dion Workman, Wilbo Wright among others.

In early 2026, Mykola and Dathan Boardman are scheduled to launch Opticeauxo, a font + pattern foundry based in downtown Reno. 

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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