Roman Opalinsky
Born in 1962 in Horodok, Lviv region, Ukraine.
1985 – graduated from the Lviv Construction Technical School
2009 – Honored Artist of Ukraine
2013 – “Leonardo Prize in Applied Arts”, 2nd prize
Works in collections:
Museum of Ethnography and Crafts (Lviv),
Zaporizhzhia Regional Art Museum (Zaporizhia),
Museum of Decorative Arts (Days of the City of Dzerzhinsk),
Art Collection of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine,
Cathedral of Mdina (Malta).
Awards and scholarships:
(Chianciano Art Museum, Italy)
2014 – 2017 Zurich, Switzerland; Gagliardi Gallery, London, Mdina Biennale, Malta; ACUA Gallery (Edmonton, Canada); Art Fresh Festival (Warsaw, Poland); II Galeria Colesionista (Rome, Italy); Art Biennale, London; Artifact Gallery (New York, USA).
Petro Harpash
Petro Harpash was born on February 16, 1951.
– 1982 – studied at the Lviv Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts.
– 1983 – 2001 – headed the research department of the same university
Author and performer of mosaics and murals in public religious buildings of Lviv, Transcarpathia, Ternopil region.
Since 2001 – independent artist status
His works are in:
– Exhibition Directorate of the State Council of Ukraine, Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, private collections in Ukraine and abroad
Permanent exhibition: Alexander and Siegfried Kebel Gallery-Museum in Cologne, Elit Gallery of Nina Lombroso in San Francisco…
According to Harpash, the world is “… a kaleidoscope of visions from this side of the eyes, some of which are delivered by the artist’s will to see it – there are people who look at them and others who pass by without seeing them …”
Olha Pohribna-Koch
Lviv artist of the third generation, her artistic vocation has been affirmed since the 70s. After studying drawing, painting and engraving privately, she attended courses at the Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts in Lviv in the years 1988-1992. Since 1993, she has participated in international exhibitions while actively engaging in the artistic life of Lviv. Winner of six international competitions, she has had 13 solo exhibitions and 180 group exhibitions in 31 countries around the world.
Her preferences are oil painting, graphics and engraving, but she also practices artistic photography and book design, having to her credit 30 works by modern Ukrainian writers.
At her first solo exhibition in 1994 at the Lviv Art Gallery, she caused a sensation with PLASHK’ART l, representing an original genre of painting. Participation:
– “First Lion Parade”, exhibition of Easter eggs “Red Ruth” for the 60th anniversary of V. Ivasyuk
– art events of the Leopolis estate workshop “The meaning of the citizen’s choice”, 2004
– “Shoes for the President” 2013 – 2019
– Cooperates during the war with the Kozytsky Foundation and other humanitarian organizations at 5 charity exhibitions.
Ivan Protsiv
Born in 1958 in the village of Knyazholuka, Ivano-Frankivsk region. Graduated from Lviv – Art School named after I. Trusha (1977), Lviv State Institute of Applied Sciences and Decorative Arts (1984), Faculty of Interior and Furniture Design.
2011 – Associate Professor of the Academic Department of Painting of the Lviv National Academy of Arts
– Since 1986 participates in national and international exhibitions.
– 1992 – Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine
– 2008 – Honored Artist of Ukraine
Achievements: 20 personal and more than 160 group exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. He is engaged in graphics, painting, icon painting (design and execution of paintings and icons in the Church of St. Anne in Lviv and the Church of the Ascension of the Lambs of the Monastery of Fathers Vasily in
Zolochiv).
A number of works are owned by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. His works are exhibited in state museums, galleries and private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Canada, USA, France, Spain, England, Hungary, Poland, Holland.
Roman Yatsiv
Born in 1956 in Khodoriv, Ukraine
He is a visual artist, art critic and teacher.
Candidate in art history, doctor of historical sciences, professor. Artist, photographer; oil and acrylic painting, gouache, felt-tip pen drawing. Solo exhibitions from 1981 – Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Canada, USA.
Halyna Slobodian
She was born in Lviv. Graduated from the Lviv State College of Decorative and Applied Arts and the Lviv State Academy of Arts.
She has participated in pan-Ukrainian and international exhibitions, including in France, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Lithuania.
Works in the field of author’s textiles and batik.
Her works are in private collections and in the Museum of Crafts in Krosno.
Stephan Mostriansky
Born in 1950 in the Ternopil region. This is Stephan Mostryanskyi, Honored Artist of Ukraine, performer of leading roles in many theaters of Western Ukraine.
A true actor is always an artist.
At some point in his creative life, Stephan turns the stage into an easel.
His works are characterized by unusual themes, deep philosophy and magical thinking. Thanks to the metaphorical nature of the paintings, we enter the world of complex and at the same time very understandable symbols, allegories and signs. The viewer will find irony, humor and a certain degree of noble refinement in them.
The special lyricism and Ukrainian national color of Stephan Mostryanskyi’s paintings are emphasized by optimistic colors – they breathe warmth, joy, sensuality, hope…
Oleh Denysenko
Born in 1960 in Lviv – is a world-renowned Ukrainian artist. Laureate of more than 30 international awards, member of the Academic Senate of the Roman Academy of Modern Arts, laureate of a prestigious scholarship of the “Pollock-Krasner Foundation”, inventor of a new type of art – Hesography. Hesography, rooted in tradition and driven by innovation, is a synergistic union of printmaking, icon painting, painting and sculpture. Oleh Denysenko is engaged in engraving, painting, bibliophile publishing and sculpture.
Volodymyr Stasenko
Since 1996 he has been working as a teacher at the Ukrainian Academy of Printing.
– 2005 – 2016 – Head of the Department of Book Graphics and Design of Printed Products of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing (Lviv).
2016-2019 – Head of the Department of Graphic Design and Book Art of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing.
– 2018 – appointed professor.
– February 2020 — teaches at the Academy of Arts in Tours (France).
He is the author of several monographs.
Engaged in the development of teaching materials for inclusive education – for visually impaired children, he works in the field of visual arts, visual communication tools.
Co-organizer of many international and pan-Ukrainian scientific conferences and master classes.
Jury member of international exhibitions and competitions, curator of numerous national and international art projects, notably in Poland, Slovakia, Turkmenistan and Estonia.
He works in different fields of visual art: painting, graphics, design, installation, video art.
He has 15 solo exhibitions to his credit, including:
1993 – Krakow, Freiburg
1997, 1999, 2018, 2022, 2023 – Lviv
1999, 2000 – Bayreuth
2022 – Rome, Madrid, Murcia, Vienna, Kosice, Budapest.
Olena Makanina
Born in 1990 in Khmelnytskyi region, she graduated from the Lviv Institute of Printing.
Engaged in painting, graphics, design.
She is an illustrator of many publications.
Designs and creates author’s jewelry, sculptures.
Participates in many art exhibitions and craft fairs.
Feodosii Houmeniuk
Painter, draftsman and teacher.
A former dissident, he was one of the first organizers of nonconformist exhibitions in Leningrad and Moscow, accused by the Soviet authorities of nationalism because of the fact that his works evoked the history of Ukraine, its spiritual values and its heroes. He was the “Singer of the Ukrainian Cossacks”.
Born in 1941 in Rybchyntsi (Vinnitsa Province).
1993-2015 Headed the historical painting workshop at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture.
1993 Winner of the Shevchenko Prize.
2009 Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Numerous solo exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad (Canada, USA, France).
His work is distinguished by the combination of Ukrainian artistic traditions – folk and baroque, with the elements of contemporary art, namely the use of decorative properties of color and geometric stylization of spots. The composition based on rhythm and intertwining of different planes gives his works a polyphonic dimension.
In 2022, the “Kobzar of Taras Shevchenko in the works of Feodosiy Humenyuk” was published in Kyiv, inspired by the masterpiece of the Ukrainian poet.
Olexandr Borodai
Born in Dnipro.
Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Works in the field of monumental art:
Mural frescoes decorating the nave of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Cathedral (Kyiv), 1999-2000;
Mural frescoes in the Church of St. John the Military, Church of the Holy Intercession (Cossack), Kyiv, 2003-2004;
Author of the first monumental works using the hot enamel technique, paving the way for the use of enamel in the architectural environment (decorative panel at the National Observatory, decoration of the Vydubychi, Osokorki metro stations (Kyiv).
During the 1980s-2000s, his innovative techniques brought him success both in Ukraine and at exhibitions in Sweden, Hungary, Romania, Germany, the USA and Canada.
Yury Koch
Born in 1958 in Lviv
He is a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist and book designer. Participates in many personal and international exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. Lives and works in Lviv.
The main vector of his creativity is oil painting. The main theme of the work is the CITY in its historical, social, erotic and esoteric manifestations, with an inherent psychedelic substance in the PERSON. At one time, art critics associated Yurk Koch’s creations with postmodernism. The author himself is quite skeptical about any classification, since his work contains elements of magical realism, surrealism, hyperrealism and he himself calls it “metaphysical mannerism”.
“Visual stylistics, according to his firm conviction, must first of all be strong and convincing.”
Oksana Anrushchenko
Born on October 13, 1966 in Lviv.
1989 – graduated from the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts (now the Lviv National Academy of Arts), Department of Art Textiles.
1994 – Member of the National Union of Artists.
2017 – promoted to the rank of Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Her works include painting, engraving, and decorative and applied arts.
Teaches at the Chair of Design at the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
Tetyana Ilyina
Lecturer at the Department of Monumental and Easel Painting of the Kyiv Academy of Decorative Arts and Design. Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Graduated from the Institute of Decorative Arts (1993), PhD from the Lviv Academy of Fine Arts (2015).
Participation in exhibitions of enamel art in Ukraine and abroad (Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic). Curator of international exhibitions and symposia of enamel and wood sculpture in Ukraine and abroad.
Collaboration on the frescoes of the Cathedral of St. Michael the Golden-Domed and the Church of the Holy Protection (Kyiv).
Solo exhibitions:
Gallery “Schleusenhaus”, Stade, Germany (2009, 2014)
Consulate General of Ukraine, Hamburg, Germany (2014)
Gallery Saint Vladimir, Krakow, Poland (2009, 2010).
Olena Osadcha
Born in 1978 in Rivne.
Member of the National Union of Ukrainian Painters (2012)
Member of the painting section of the National Union of Icon Painters of Ukraine (2017)
Rector of the Kyiv M. Boychuk National Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design
Her works are in private collections in Ukraine and abroad (Poland, Italy, Germany, Portugal), as well as at the Antarctic research station “Akademik-Vernadsky”.
Expert in Ukrainian iconography of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, research on the influence of Byzantine art on Ukrainian iconography and the phenomenon of polystylysm in contemporary Ukrainian icons.
Participation in about twenty national and international exhibitions
Ustym Fedko
Ustym Fedko was born in 1971 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Graduated from the Lviv College of Applied Arts in 1991 (Department of Ceramics), then studied monumental art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Ukraine (graduated in 1998). Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Department of Monumental Art.
Works in the field of monumental art, sculpture, painting, enamel on copper.
Mr. Fedko’s monumental works are exhibited at many public sites in Ukraine: Kiev Central Railway Station, St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv, Botanichna metro station in Kharkiv, and others. He has held solo and group exhibitions and participated in numerous symposiums on sculpture, metal, enamel and other arts in Ukraine, Poland, France, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia. Lives and works in kyiv, Ukraine.
Petro Bevza
Born in 1963 in the Kyiv region
1990 – member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine
His style is characterized by a superposition of abstraction and symbolism. His colors are bright and his textures layered; he often addresses the philosophical themes of eternity, space and time.
1993 – Exhibition “The Art of Ukraine”, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse
1996-1997 – Project “Et caetera”, exhibited in Nice, Cannes, Luxembourg, Geneva and
Mannheim. Awarded the prize at the International Exhibition of Contemporary Art 96
2010 – presentation of a cycle of paintings “From the foot of destiny” – Bezpala Brown Gallery -Toronto, Canada
2014-2015 – Art project for the bicentenary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko at the Ukrainian Institute of America, New York
2016-2017 realization of a personal art project “Jordan” at the Ukrainian Institute of America, New York
Serhiy Savchenko
“Abstraction gives the opportunity to enter an emotional space where pure and subtle energies rage, where art manifests itself as an imprint, clear and revealed at the level of impulsive entry into the image, at the limit of a possible glimpse”…
Born on August 25, 1949 in Odessa.
Lives and works in Odessa.
Honored Artist of Ukraine. Honorary member of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy. Member of the Committee of the National Prize named after Taras Shevchenko (2016-2019).
Representative of the art of abstract expressionism.
His fields: painting, graphics, sculpture and monumental art. He received his artistic education at the Odessa Art School named after M. Grekov, where he graduated in 1974.
In the early 1980s he joined a group of Odessa nonconformists. Since the 1980s he has participated in exhibitions of contemporary art in Ukraine and abroad.
Has more than 30 personal exhibitions in Ukraine, Poland, Spain and France. Curator of more than 25 exhibitions of visual art in museums and galleries of Ukraine.
The works are kept in the National Art Museum (Kiev), in many other museums of Ukraine, in the UIMA Museum (Chicago, USA), in private collections in various countries of Europe and America.
Victor Demydov
Born in 1953 in Dnipro.
Head of his own architectural studio “Demydov & Associate Architect”.
Winner of the State Prize of Ukraine for Architecture, the Grand Prix of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine “Velyka Volyuta” for the best-made object in Ukraine and other architectural awards.
Since 2022 he lives in Paris. Engaged in architecture, design, painting.
The area of interest of fine arts includes works in modern style on historical and mythological themes, modern ethnicity, landscapes, thematic sketches with a combination of various painting and graphic techniques.
During his stay in France, he participated in six exhibitions in Parisian galleries.
Larysa Kuvayeva
Larysa Kuvayeva is a Ukrainian artist, watercolorist.
Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 2012. Active member of the Maison des Artistes de Paris since 2023. Coordinator of the IWS (International Watercolour Society) in Chernivtsi.
Founder of the public organization BWA (Bukovyna Watercolour Association). Works in the following fields: easel painting, watercolor, graphics, teaches fine arts to children and adults.
Participant, winner and organizer of many regional, national and international events, competitions and exhibitions, as well as 25 personal exhibitions.
The artist’s works are exhibited in galleries and museums, are included in many catalogs and are in private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
Roman Dmytryk
Born on May 30, 1962 in Lviv. Glass artist (Lviv Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Art Glass), teacher, master of decorative and applied arts, designer.
From 1994-1998 – head of the department of modern art of the National Museum in Lviv, organizer of numerous exhibitions.
Design and execution of interior stained glass windows, glass sculpture
His works are exhibited in Ukraine and abroad.
Taras Opalinsky
“Being an artist is a constant call to be ready to fulfill a special human mission. It is a great challenge and one of the greatest privileges of life…”
Born on December 20, 2000 in the Lviv region.
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, department “Art Glass” in Lviv. Winner of many awards, including:
International Glass Bending “Technology Symposium Art” Lviv for the sculpture “Cyborg”.
His works are in private collections in the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Bahrain, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine. Participated in charity exhibitions:
– “United Kingdom for Ukraine”, Canary Wharf, London, Great Britain – “United Kingdom Polish WORK: “Freedom”.
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