ABOUT 

Born in Odessa, Ukraine. Currently resides and works there. Works in the fields of painting, graphics, and objects. In his artistic practice accumulates impressions, reflections, and experiences of historical processes and cataclysms through the intimate emotions of individual people, which are embodied in metaphorical visual images and collages. The central focus is on the human being, their paradoxical inner impulses, and existential experiences.

A lecturer at the Grekov Odessa Art School since 2011, and the head of the Cyclic Commission “Zhyvopys” (Painting).

Education

2014-2014 • Master of Fine Arts, South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky, Faculty of Fine Arts and Graphics.

2009-2013 • Bachelor of Fine Arts, South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky, Faculty of Fine Arts and Graphics.

2004-2009 • The Grekov Odessa Art School, Department of Painting.

Awards and Prizes

2012 • Laureate of the N. Altman Competition of Contemporary Ukrainian Art (Vinnytsia, Ukraine), 2nd prize.

Solo exhibitions

2024 • "Water is grinding", Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery, Pidhirtsi Castle, Ukraine

2023 • "Why is water dreaming?", curated by: Alona Karavai, gallery "Assortment Room", Ivano-Frankivsk

2023 • “Groundwater”, “Erased Faces” exhibition as part of the “Languages of War” series, curated by: Kyrylo Lipatov, Oleksandr Zhuk. Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Art, Kyiv, Ukraine

2023 • “Groundwater”, exhibition within the framework of the “Languages of War” cycle, curated by: Vira Fenelonova, Kyrylo Lipatov. Odesa National Art Museum (ONFAM)

2019 • “Mixed Feelings”, VAGABUNDO Gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. 

2019 • “Erased Faces”, Assortment Room Gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.

2016 • “Spalnyi rayon” (Residential area), “Karas Gallery”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2015 • “Everyday Archeology”, open space ARTERIA, Museum of Odessa Modern Art (MSMO), Odessa, Ukraine

2012 • “Gulliver’s Dissection”, Art Museum, Yellow Giants Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine.

2011 • “Memory Cartography”, Experimental Center of Contemporary Art “Tea Factory”, Odessa, Ukraine

Collective exhibitions

2024 • "Fractured Tomorrows", curated by: Max Kovalchuk, Schnitzer&, Munich, Germany

2022 • Participation in a one-day collective exhibition “Stream. Invasion. Art. Life”, Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine.

2021 • “Ukrainian Collage” State Enterprise “Mystetskyi Arsenal” National Cultural and Art and Museum Complex, Kyiv, Ukraine

2021 • Annual international exhibition NordArt, UKRAINIAN PAVILION “The Borders of Reality”, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany

2018 • “Shydkoplinny Chas”, Mystetskyi Arsenal”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2018 • “Constellation. Mykola Lukin and Oleg Sokolov”, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2018 • All-Ukrainian exhibition “I: Mirror”, The Municipal O. Bleschunov Museum of Private Collections, Odessa, Ukraine

2017 • Fifth Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art “Zone of Turbulence”, Museum of Contemporary Art (MSMO), Odessa, Ukraine

2017 • “Cold Vera”, Invogue#Art Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine

2017 • “Night at the Museum 2017”, The Municipal O. Bleschunov Museum of Private Collections, Odessa, Ukraine

2016 • “Odessa Contemporary Art”, ErmilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine

2016 • “Odessa Contemporary Art”, Institute of Contemporary Art Problems, Kyiv, Ukraine

2016 • Odessa International Festival «FREIERFEST», Tea Factory Modern Art Experimental Center, Odessa, Ukraine

2016 • “Director’s cut/director’s version” as part of ART-OMKF, Invogue#Art gallery, Odessa, Ukraine

2016 • “Short stories. Contemporary Artists from Ukraine”, Іmago Mundi, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche project (catalogue)

2015 • Fourth Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art “MANIFESTO”, Museum of Contemporary Art (MSMO), Odessa, Ukraine

2015 • “Art for the sake of life”, “Mystetskyi Arsenal”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2015 • “Seaside Hedonism”, gallery “8BIT”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2015 • “INFANT TERRIBLE. Odessa Conceptualism”, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv

2015 • Auction of modern Ukrainian art, “DUKAT” gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2014 • “New Ukrainian Dream” under the auspices of FORBES, “Mystetskyi Arsenal”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2014 • Auction “Golden Intersection”– POST WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART (post-war and current contemporary art), Contemporary Art Center M17, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013 • Third Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art “Self-Government: Evolution vs. Revolution”, Museum of Contemporary Art (MSMO), Odessa, Ukraine

2013 • “Ignorance is strength” ART KIYV2013, “Mystetskyi Arsenal”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013 • “Horizons of Temporality”, Museum of Contemporary Art (MSMO), Odessa, Ukraine

2013 • “Horizons of Temporality”, Institute of Contemporary Art Problems, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013 • “Understanding Freedom”, Odessa Art Museum, Odesa, Ukraine

2013 • “Role-playing”, Museum of Contemporary Art (MSMO), Odessa, Ukraine

2012 • Exhibition of Odessa artists in the Galleria Le Arti gallery, Rome, Italy

2012 • “Fade Stars”, Korobchinsky Art Center, Odessa, Ukraine

2012 • “Ukraine-Mother”, gallery “Bereznitsky project”, Kyiv, Ukraine

2012 • “Rahanna graphics – bath collage”, Museum of Contemporary Art (MSMO), Odessa, Ukraine

2012 • “Near”, municipal gallery, Yuzhne, Ukraine

2011 • “Danechka, Happy Birthday!” (dedicated to Daniil Kharms), Experimental Center of Contemporary Art “Tea Factory”, Odessa, Ukraine

2011 • “Inventory”, gallery “Vopros”, Odessa, Ukraine

2011 • “March”, Oleksandr Korobchinsky Art Center, Odessa, Ukraine

2010 • Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (MSMO), Odessa, Ukraine

Curator

2024 • "Series" by Yurii Zilberberh. Odesa National Art Museum (ONFAM)

         • "Eclipse" by Anastasiia Kolibaba. Odesa National Art Museum (ONFAM)  

2022 • Co-curator of the project (in collaboration with Solomiya Savchuk) of creative works by the Grekov Art School students “Loud Silence”/«LE BRUIT DU SILENCE», gallery CROUS (11 rue des Beaux-Arts, 75006, Paris, France)

Collections

• Grynyov art collection, collection of the Grynyov family, Kharkiv, Ukraine

• The collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSMO), Odessa, Ukraine Collection of the Odesa Art Museum, Odesa, Ukraine

• Private collections of Germany, Ukraine