Biography
1971 was born in Kyiv, Ukraine.
1982-1986 – education certificate, Art School, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1988-1993 – Bachelor and Master in Pedagogical, National Pedagogical University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1994-2000 – Bachelor and Master in Sculpture, National Academy of Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Member Youth Society of Ukraine National Artists Union (since 1999).
Member of the Union of Ukrainian Professional Artists – Affiliated to the International Association of Art IAA/UNESCO (since 2005).
Professional member of International Association for Monumental Sculpture Events (since 2012).
Private Art teaching practice, Kyiv, Ukraine (since 2000).
2005-2008 – Assistant of Art director Ice and Sand Sculpture Production.
2009-2011 – Art Teacher of British International School, Kyiv, Ukraine.
The artist lives and works in Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine.
Participation in International Symposiums, festivals, art actions
2017 – 5th International Sculpture Symposium, limestone, Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
2017 – 4th International Sculpture Symposium, limestone, Mykolaiv, Lviv region, Ukraine.
2017 – 24th International Sculpture Symposium, hornbeam wood, Kocaeli University, Degirmendere, Golcuk, Turkey.
2017 – National Sculpture Symposium, limestone, Dnipro, Ukraine.
2017 – 2nd International Sand Sculpture Festival, Malevizi, Greece.
2017 – 4th International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Haccettepe University Beytepe Campus, Ankara, Turkey.
2017 – 4th International Sculpture Symposium, sandstone, Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
2017 – 9th International Sculpture Symposium, bronze, Cairo, Egypt.
2017 – International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Wenzhou, China.
2016 – 2nd Bisanthe International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Tekirdag, Turkey.
2016 – 1st International Sculpture Symposium, gypsum, Vaujours, France.
2016 – 1st International Sand Sculpture Festival, Malevizi, Crete, Greece.
2016 – 3th International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Tabriz, Iran.
2016 – 1st International Sculpture Symposium, pine tree, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016 – Uchinuki 21 International Sculpture Symposium, blue schist, Saijo, Japan.
2016 – International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Mumbai, India.
2015 – 1st International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Ho Shi Ming city, Vietnam.
2015 – 1st International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Giresun, Turkey.
2015 – 5th International Sculpture Symposium Kuzgun Acar, marble, Bursa, Turkey.
2015 – 1st Bisanthe International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Tekirdag, Turkey.
2015 – 5th KÖMÜRCÜOĞLU International Stone Sculpture Colony, travertine, Denizli, Turkey.
2015 – International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Fuzhou, China.
2015 – 2nd International Sculpture Symposium, sandstone, Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
2015 – Competition for a project for the statue monument symbolizing “Europe", Caransebes, Romania. 2014 – 15th Zhong Dong Group International Sculpture Symposium, marble, bronze, Changchun, China. 2014 – 8th International Wax Sculpture Festival, Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand. 2014 – 1st International Monumental Sculpture Symposium, sandstone, Rawabi, Palestine. 2014 – 24th International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Ma’alot-Tarshiha, Israel.
2013 – 1st International Humor Sculpture Symposium, marble, Antalya, Turkey.
2013 – International Sculpture Symposium, limestone, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine.
2013 – International ART residences, marble, Penza, Russia.
2013 – Sculpture Symposium, granite, Busha, Ukraine.
2013 – 8th International Sculpture Symposium, granite, Bressuire, France.
2013 – International Sculpture Symposium, sandstone, Bukovel, Ukraine.
2013 – 11th International Sculpture Symposium, limestone, Morges, Switzerland. 2012 – 3rd Ostraka International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Cairo, Egypt.
2012 – Sculpture Symposium, sandstone, granite, Busha, Ukraine.
2012 – 6th International Sculpture Symposium, wood, Thyon-Region, Switzerland.
2012 – 10th International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Caransebes, Romania.
2012 – 6th International Sculpture Symposium, wood, Damascus, Syria.
2011 – 6th International Sculpture Symposium, limestone, Venerato, Crete, Greece.
2011 – 10th International Sculpture Symposium, limestone, Morges, Switzerland.
2011 – 6th International Wax Sculpture Festival, Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand.
2010 – 1st Ostraka International Sculpture Symposium, marble, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
2010 – International Sculpture Symposium, limestone, Hust, Ukraine.
2010 – Sculpture Symposium, limestone, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010 – Snow Sculpture Festival, Lviv, Ukraine.
2009 – Ukrainian Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2009 – International Enamel Festival, National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2008 – Designers present collections on Anti-AIDS Fashion Show Contest, Lviv, Ukraine.
2008 – Ukraine President’s Sculpture Symposium, limestone, Baturyn, Chernigiv Region, Ukraine.
2008 – Author’s master-class of Plaster Sculpture, TM “Blend-a-med”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2008 – Volkswagen Sand Festival, Minsk, Belarus.
2008, 2007 – Ice Sculpture Festival, Lviv, Ukraine.
2007 – Ukraine President’s Sculpture Symposium, sandstone, Kaniv, Chercassy Region, Ukraine.
2007 – Big Sculpture Salon, Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2007 – 1st International Sculpture Symposium, granite, Stalowa Wola, Poland.
2007 – Symposium of Sculpture, sandstone, Lypa, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Ukraine.
2007, 2006, 2005 – International Sand Sculpture Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2006 – International Sand Sculpture Festival, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia.
2005 – Anti-AIDS Photography competition, Lviv, Ukraine.
2005 – Sculpture Symposium, wood, Shidnytsya, Lviv Region, Ukraine.
2004 – Sculpture Symposium, sandstone, Zhovkva, Lviv Region, Ukraine.
2004 – Sculpture Symposium, limestone, Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Ukraine.
2004 – Sculpture Symposium, sandstone, Bukatynka, Vinnytsya Region, Ukraine.
2003 – Anti-AIDS Fashion Show Contest, Lviv, Ukraine.
2003 – Symposium of Sculpture, limestone, Lviv, Ukraine.
2003 – Symposium of Sculpture, sandstone, Sokil, Vinnytsya Region, Ukraine.
2002 – International Sculpture Symposium, sandstone, Velky Sharish, Slovakia.
2002 – Sculpture Symposium, granite, Kremenchuk, Poltava Region, Ukraine.
2002 – Anti-AIDS Body Art Contest, Lviv, Ukraine.
1999 – International Sculpture Symposium, limestone, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
1999 – Anti-AIDS Sculpture Contest, Lviv, Ukraine.
1998 – Sculpture Symposium, ceramics, Poltava, Ukraine.
1998 – Sculpture Symposium, wood, Ochtyrka, Sumy Region, Ukraine.
1998 – Sculpture Symposium, sandstone, Busha, Vinnytsya Region, Ukraine.
1998 – Anti-AIDS Sculpture Contest, Lviv
Public Art
“Independence”, 2017, limestone, 170x60x45 cm, Mykolayiv, Lviv region, Ukraine.
“Tumbleweed”, 2017, stainless, 200x400x200 cm, Wenzhou, China.
“Water”, 2017, hornbeam tree, 240x200x40 cm, Degirmendere, Golcuk, Turkey.
“Embroidery”, 2017, limestone, 280x100x50 cm, Dnipro, Ukraine.
“Sea is not your bathroom”, 2017, sand, 200x200x200 cm
“Dead sea”, 2017, sand, 200x200x200 cm, Malevizi, Crete, Greece, with other author.
“Dangerous beach”, 2017, sand, 200x200x200 cm, Malevizi, Crete, Greece, with other author.
“Modern Mermaid”, 2017, sand, 200x200x200 cm, Malevizi, Crete, Greece, with other author.
“Stone knotting”, 2017, marble, 295x80x80cm, Ankara, Turkey.
“Birth of Aphrodite”, 2017, limestone, 260x95x95 cm, Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
“Iris – Goddess of Rainbow”, 2017, limestone, 250x70x70 cm, Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
“Bridge”, 2017, bronze, 100x200x100 cm, Cairo, Egypt.
“Flower of Suleymanpasha”, 2016, marble, 210x180x160 cm, Suleymanpasha, Turkey.
“Bridge,”, 2016, gypsum, 40x40x100 cm, Vaujours, France.
“Magnetic Designer IV”, 2016, marble, 300x150x150 cm, Tabriz, Iran.
“Poseidon”, 2016, sand, 300x300x300 cm, Malevizi, Crete, Greece, with other authors.
“Siren”, 2016, sand, 300x700x300 cm, Malevizi, Crete, Greece, with other authors.
“Water”, 2016, pine tree, 230x200x40 cm, Kyiv, Ukraine.
“Snowball”, 2016, blue schist, 80x80x80 cm, Tanbara, Saijo city, Ehime pref., Japan.
“The Way of knowledge”, 2016, marble, 400x140x140 cm, Mumbai, India.
“Magnetic Designer III”, 2015, marble, 120x210x90 cm, Ho Shi Ming city, Vietnam.
“The way to eternity”, 2015, marble, 290x190x60 cm, Giresun, Turkey.
“In Harmony with Conscience”, 2015, marble, 145x120x120 cm, Bursa, Turkey.
“Weaving The Canvas of The History”, 2015, marble, 320x80x80 cm, Suleymanpasha, Turkey.
“Magnetic Designer II”, 2015, marble, 300x120x120 cm, Fuzhou, China.
"Hypnosis", 2015, travertine, 270x180x100 cm, Denizli, Turkey.
“Greek Sphinx”, 2015, sandstone, 300x200x70 cm, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, with other author.
“Pegasus”, 2015, sandstone, 280x130x60 cm, Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
“Handful of Water”, 2014, marble, 120x180x90 cm, Changchun, China.
“Handful of Water”, 2014, bronze, 120x180x90 cm, 3 copies, Changchun, China.
“Face to face”, 2014, wax, 250x200x80 cm, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand.
“On the Crest of a Wave”, 2014, sandstone, 355x100x100 cm, Rawabi, Palestine.
“Magnetic Designer I”, 2014, limestone, 240x100x100 cm, Ma’a lot, Israel.
“Comic Actor Ismail Dumbullu”, 2013, marble, 200x200x70 cm, Antalya, Turkey.
“Fraternization”, 2013, limestone, 280x100x100 cm, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine.
“Grapevine”, 2013, granite, 110x140x60 cm, Busha, Ukraine.
“Black Pearl”, 2013, sandstone, 140x100x70 cm, Bukovel, Ukraine.
“Demon”, 2013, granite, 140x75x60 cm, Bressuire, France.
“Moulin rouge”, 2013, limestone, 60x40x40 cm, Morges, Switzerland.
“Roundabout”, 2012, marble, 300x100x100 cm, Cairo, Egypt.
“Iris”, 2012, wood, h-220 cm, d-80 cm, Thion Region, Swidzerland.
“Pegasus”, 2012, sandstone, 180x115x40 cm, Busha, Ukraine.
“Dreamer”, 2012, granite, 200x120x70 cm, Busha, Ukraine.
“Sweet Dream”, 2012, marble, 270x145x120 cm, Caransebes, Romania.
“Moon”, 2012, walnut wood, 255x50x50 cm, Damascus, Syria.
“Rape of Europe”, 2011, limestone, 230x80x80 cm, Venerato, Crete, Greece.
“Song of my heard”, 2011, wax, 300x100x100 cm, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand.
“Erotic Flower”, 2011, limestone, 50x50x50 cm, Morges, Switzerland.
“The Moon”, 2010, limestone, 260x70x60 cm, Kyiv, Ukraine.
“Shadows of the princely castle”, 2010, 300x120x120 cm, Hust, Ukraine, with other authors.
“Dream of Little Pharaoh”, 2010, marble, 160x150x65 cm, Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt.
“Crying”, 2008, limestone, 230x270x50 cm, Baturyn, Ukraine.
“Angel”, 2007, ice, 215x105x100 cm, Lviv, Ukraine.
“Ukrainian Dream”, 2007, sandstone, 170x270x100 cm, Kaniv, Ukraine.
“Virtual Paradise”, 2007, sand, 500x500x500 cm, Kyiv, Ukraine.
“Necklace”, 2007, granite, copper, 170x100x50 cm, Stalowa Wolya, Poland.
Monument to Yaroslav Melnyk, 2007, limestone, 500x1000x1000 cm, Lypa, Ukraine, with other authors.
“Father of Poet”, 2005, wood, h-400 cm, d-100 cm, Naguyevychi, Ukraine, with other authors.
“Song of wolves”, 2005, sand, 300x250x250 cm, Kyiv, Ukraine.
“Lion”, 2004, limestone, 200x180x100 cm, Kalush, Ukraine.
“Cossack-harakternyk”, 2004, sandstone, 185x80x80 cm, Bukatynka, Ukraine.
“Cycle”, 2003, limestone, 170x150x150 cm, Lviv, Ukraine.
Monument to the victims of famine and repressions, 2003, sandstone, 500x200x200 cm, Sokil, Ukraine, with other authors.
“Cross-roads of Destiny”, 2002, granite, iron, 136x168x90 cm, Kremenchuk, Ukraine.
“Moon for Munch”, 2002, sandstone, granite, iron, 170x120x120 cm, Kremenchuk, Ukraine.
“Divine Mill”, 2002, sandstone, 333x300x200 cm, Velky Sharish, Slovakia, with other author.
"Evangelist Luke", 2000, clay, 160h80h80 cm graduate work, National Academy of Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine. St.Peter & Pavel”, 1999, limestone, 200x95x60 cm, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
“Folk Song”, 1998, oak wood, h-250 cm, d-80 cm, Ohtyrka, Ukraine.
“Mermaids”, 1998, sandstone, 170x150x120 cm, Busha
Art in collection
- Public and private collections in Australia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brasilia, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Israel, Iran, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Syria, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, Vietnam, Japan.
- Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola, Poland.
- Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Awards and prizes
2017 – Excellent Prize, International Sculpture Symposium, Wenzhou, China.
2017 – Award, international sculpture Exhibition, Putian, China.
2015 – Excellent Prize, International Sculpture Symposium, Ho Shi Ming, Vietnam.
2015 – Excellent Prize, International Sculpture Exhibition, Fuzhou, China.
2015 – Nominated Prize, International Sculpture Exhibition, Fuzhou, China.
2009 – Second Prize Ukrainian Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2008 – Grand-Prix Designer Collection Competition “Anti-AIDS”, Lviv, Ukraine.
2007 – Diploma of Guinness Ukrainian Records Book, V International Sand Sculpture Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2006 – Grand-Prix Sand Sculpture Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2005 – Grand-Prix III International Sand Sculpture Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2005 – Grand-Prix Photography Competition “Anti-AIDS”, Lviv, Ukraine.
2004 – Grand-Prix Stone Sculpture Symposium, Zhovkva, Lviv Region, Ukraine.
1999 – Grand-Prix Sculpture Competition “Anti-AIDS”, Lviv, Ukraine.
Collective exhibition
2017 – International Sculpture Exhibition, Putian, China.
2017 – International Sculpture Exhibition, Wenzhou, China.
2015 – International Sculpture Exhibition, Fuzhou, China.
2015 – National Exhibition “Fire Art”, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2013 – International Sculpture Exhibition, Chapelle Saint-Cyprien, Bressuire, France.
2013 – International Sculpture Exhibition, Museum in Castle, Morges, Switzerland.
2011 – International Sculpture Exhibition, Museum in Castle, Morges, Switzerland.
2011 – August exhibition, National Historical Museum of Book, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine.
2009 – National Exhibition, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2008 – Enamel Exhibition, National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2008 – Enamel Exhibition, Bucharest, Romania.
2007 – “Salomea Krushelnitska of Fine Art”, Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine.
2005-2006 – “Enamel and Levkas World”, National Museums, Odessa, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Ukraine.
2005, 2004, 2003 – “High Castle”, Lviv, Ukraine.
2004 – Enamel Exhibition, Gallery “A-hata”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2004, 2002, 2001 – National Woman’s Exhibition, Municipal Gallery “Lavra”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2003 – National Exhibition “Fine Ukraine”, Art Palace, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2002, 1999 – National Sculpture Triennale, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2002 – National Paschal Exhibition, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2001, 1999 – National Christmas Salon, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1999 – National Autumn Salon, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1998 – Enamel Exhibition, Ivan Kavaleridze Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1998 – Enamel Exhibition, Gallery “Dzyga”, Lviv, Ukraine.
1998 – “Modern jewelry and enamel”, Gallery “Triptych”, Kyiv, Ukraine.