Ukrainian Painter
EDUCATION
Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv.
FIELD
Petro Bevza engages with the legacy of Renaissance masters, rethinking color and texture as central to artistic professionalism and expression in a contemporary context.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Certificate of Honor from the City of Kyiv for the best painting of the year, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1994
Honorary Prize, International Salon of Contemporary Art D`ART’96, Nice, France, 1996
Golden Section Prize and title of Artist of the Year, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1997
Grant from the Soros Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMA for Best Art Project of the Year, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2000
Grant from Pro Helvetia Foundation for Best Art Project, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, 2001
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2020 Semantic Paradise. The Alphabet, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv (album)

2019 Toward the Light, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv (catalog)
Another Light, Tryptych Gallery, Kyiv

2018 Petro Bevza. Penetration, Karas Gallery, Kyiv (catalog)

2017 Petro Bevza. Jordan, Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, Lviv (catalog)
Petro Bevza. Anthology, Art-Kafedra Gallery, Lutsk
Petro Bevza. Jordan, National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art, Kyiv (catalog)
Petro Bevza. Stroke, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
Rebirth, N2N Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE (catalog)
2016 Petro Bevza. Jordan, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA (catalog)
Petro Bevza. Jordan, White World Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv (catalog)
Petro Bevza. Jordan, Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Odesa (catalog)
Ambiguous Abstractions, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
2015 The Play Goes On, N2N Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE (catalog)
Anno Domini, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
Images, Nasha Gallery, Sumy
2014 Following the Inner Light, with Mykola Zhuravel, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York (catalog)
We Just Walked…, with Mykola Zhuravel, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv (catalog)
Flowers 2014, Tryptych Gallery, Kyiv
2013 Ukraine. View from the Sky, art publishing project
Bevza / Play, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv (catalog)
Play, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv (catalog)
Presence, with Oleksii Lytvynenko, Nest Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland (catalog)
2012 Fields of Gravity. Grass, with Oleksii Lytvynenko, parallel program of the First Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art Arsenale, Tryptych Gallery, Kyiv (catalog)
2011 The Foot of Fate, Tryptych Gallery, Kyiv
Islands, ABC Art Gallery, Kyiv (album)
2010 And Someone Else With Me, Bezpala Brown Gallery, Toronto, Canada