Ukrainian Artist
EDUCATION
Graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute.
FIELD
His subjects include landscapes, water, plants, insects, fish, and amphibians. He applies layers of color atop one another to form clear and poetic geometric compositions. Rejecting expressive gestures, he explores inner movement through time — a rhythm akin to the life cycle of plants, merging motion and temporality in his works.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
1996 Honorary Award, Salon Internationale D’ART Contemporain, France1997 Grand Prix, Golden Section International Art Festival, Ukraine; titled Artist of the Year (Painting)1999 Project Heritage — winner of the Sovyart CCA and Association of Ukrainian Galleries project competition2000 Soros CCA Grant for Best Art Project of the Year
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2011 Paths of Contemplation, ABC Art Gallery, KyivArt Expo New York, New York, USAFields of Gravity, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv
2010 Fields of Gravity, Bezpala Brown Gallery, Toronto, CanadaFields of Gravity, Aircraft Gallery, Bratislava, SlovakiaPainting, Sumy Municipal Gallery, Sumy, Ukraine
2009 A Walk, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, UkrainePainting, Tryptych Gallery, Kyiv, UkraineArtVilnius’09, Vilnius, Lithuania
2008 Gallery of Portraits, Galleri Gamla Väster, Malmö, Sweden
2004 Fourth International Festival of Contemporary Art, Magdeburg, Germany350 Years Later, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv & Dzyga Gallery, Lviv
2003 Invasion, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv
2001 Bevza and Lytvynenko. Open Fields, Centre PasquArt Museum of Contemporary Art, Biel/Bienne, SwitzerlandCrossroads: Contemporary Ukrainian Art at the Turn of the 20th–21st Centuries, Museum of Art History, Vienna, Austria
2000 White Passage, National Art Museum of Ukraine, KyivPassage, Soros Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA, KyivPassage, Central Exhibition Hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv