Yurii Klapoukh, 1963 | Romantic / Genre painter

Iurii Klapoukh / Юрий Клапоух is a contemporary Ukrainian painter born in Uman, Ukraine.

He is widely recognized for his high technical mastery in oil-on-canvas realism, seamlessly blending classical artistic traditions with contemporary elements.

He took an unconventional career path, originally training and working as an aviation engineer before fully dedicating his life to professional fine art.

He graduated from the prestigious Surikov State Academic Art Institute in Moscow in 1993.

Yurii Dubinin, 1962 | Romantic / impressionist painter

Yurii Dubinin is a contemporary Ukrainian painter and graphic artist known for his romantic, meditative and impressionistic style.

Born in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, he later built his life and career in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.

His art heavily emphasizes smooth lines, the dramatic interplay of light and shadow (chiaroscuro), and vibrant, contrasting colors.

Graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. Surikov in 1992, studying under renowned specialist A. Savostyuk.

Valeriy Kot, 1958 | Surrealist painter

Valeriy Kot is a prominent contemporary Ukrainian surrealist painter.

Born in Polesskoe (Kyiv region), he initially trained and worked as an industrial architect before transitioning to a full-time painting career in 1985.

In 1985 changes his vocation and starts dealing with art, lead by ideas of surrealism he is so fascinated by, from his earlier years.

In 1977 performs his first art works in surrealism genre.

His first show took place on April 1979.

Vladimir Fechyk, 1970 | Cityscape painter

Vladimir Fechyk (Fecik) was born in Mukachevo, Ukraine.

He began painting early, and he began attending the Children's School of Art at 10, and continued there for 4 years.

At the age of 15 he attended the State School of Art in Charkov, Ukraine, also for 4 years.

David Burliuk | The Father of Russian Futurism

David Davidovich Burlyuk, Burlyuk also spelled Burliuk / Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к (1882-1967), Russian poet, painter, critic and publisher who became the centre of the Russian Futurist movement, even though his output in the fields of poetry and painting was smaller than that of his peers.

Burlyuk excelled at discovering talent and was one of the first to publish the poetry of Velimir Khlebnikov and to recognize Vladimir Mayakovsky’s brilliance.

It was largely because of Burlyuk’s efforts that the Russian avant-garde became known in Europe and the United States.

Dmitriy Kolujni, 1974 | Figurative painter

Dmitriy Kolujni was born in Kharkov, Ukraine.

He graduated from Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts (former Kharkov Institute of Industrial Arts).

He has been fruitfully participating in regional, All-Ukrainian and international art exhibitions.

He is a lecturer in art at Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts since 2006.

Member of the Ukrainian Union of Artists since 2004.

Many of his paintings are held in private collections in Great Britain, Holland, France and United States.

Irina Karkabi, 1960 | Romantic painter

Ukrainian artist Irina Vitalievna Karkabi was born in Kharkov, Ukraine.

Her artistic talent was noticed by those around her in early childhood.

In 1982, almost immediately after graduating from the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, she, along with her husband and newborn son, moved to the city of Haifa in northern Israel (occupied palestine), where she settled on the seashore.

There, at the Mediterranean crossroads of cultural ideas and artistic trends, Irina founded her studio.

Olga Krimon, 1972 | Figurative painter

Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Olga Krimon / Ольгa Кримон received academic art education in Kazan, Russia.

She continued to grow and develop her skills later in America, through drawing classes with Glen Orbik and painting classes with Jeremy Lipking.

Olga also holds a BA in Art History, and she credits it with providing her the rich visual vocabulary that is instrumental for defining her path as an artist.

She also received an MBA making her well grounded in the business side of an artistic career.

Elena Yushina, 1958 | Impressionist painter

Elena Nikolaevna Yushina / Елена Николаевна Юшина was born in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine and graduated from art school.

After receiving an engineering degree from the Sevastopol Instrument-Making Institute, she worked in various technical fields across the country, both on land and at sea.

She then managed a manufacturing company.

Since 2008, she has been a freelance artist.

Yana Movchan, 1971 | Magic Realism painter

Ukrainian-born Canadian painter Yanina (Yana) Movchan was born in Kiev.

Yana’s sublime mastery of the technique and structure of Renaissance painting combines with the instinctive symbolism of "magical realism" to create a personal neo-realist idiom.

Her work is formal, yet playful; contemporary, yet timeless; and joyous, yet mysterious, evocative and dreamlike.

Ilya Repin | Historical / Genre painter

Ilya Yefimovich Repin / Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин, (1844-1930), Russian painter of historical subjects known for the power and drama of his works.

Born to a poor family near Kharkov, Repin learned his trade from a painter of icons named Bunakov and in 1864 became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts at St. Petersburg.

Edward Pustovoitov, 1964 | Fantasy painter

Эдуард Пустовойтов was born in Makeyevka, Ukraine.

He gained the Designer’s qualification at Odessa Institute of theatrical and artistic studies.

Irresistible desire of travelling once led Pustovoitov to come to Latvia and to join the Riga nautical college; after graduating he worked as a sailor at Latvian Shipping.

Sonia Delaunay | Mother of Abstraction

From: MoMa, The Museum of Modern Art

"We are...only at the beginning

of color research (full of mysteries

still to be discovered)...."

Sonia Delaunay-Terk (13 November 1885 - 5 December 1979)

Red and green, blue and orange, yellow and violet: these color combinations were vital to the artistic practice and theory of Sonia Delaunay-Terk, whose vast body of work-paintings and drawings, prints and illustrations, textiles and furnishings, clothing and accessories-enthralled its earliest viewers, users, and wearers.

While living in Paris in the 1910s, Delaunay-Terk and her husband, Robert Delaunay, began to explore the visual properties of contrasting colors-colors opposite one another on the color wheel.

Tetyana Erhart, 1965

Тетяна Ерхарт is an internationally renowned professional Ukrainian photographer from Lviv, where she currently lives and works.

- "I started dealing with portrait photography when my children were born.

It was mid of the 1980s and I used a film camera.

There was a long pause in my photo career until the mid of the 2000s when I got my digital camera".

Tania Rivilis, 1986

Tania Rivilis, born in Ukraine, did not embark on her artistic journey until her move to Germany.

This shift, both geographical and personal, marked the beginning of an exploration that she started at the age of 27.

When Tania first set foot in Germany in 2012, little did she know her path would take her to global recognition.

Sergiy Lyacevitch, 1981

Sergiy Lyacevitch è un pittore figurativo impressionista che vive e lavora in Ucraina.

Lyacevitch per i suoi quadri usa dei soggetti classici - le ballerine, la bellezza della donna e Parigi come cornice di sfondo per le sue figure.

Olga Grigoreva-Klimova, 1984

Olga Grigoreva-Klimova / Ольга Григорьева-Климова was born in the city of Shchelkino,  in Crimea.

She graduated from the Crimean Art College Nicholas Samokish and the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture of Ukraine (Kiev).

Since 2007 she has been a participant of republican and all-Ukrainian exhibitions.

Works are in the Kiev Museum of Modern Art, as well as in private collections and galleries in Ukraine, Russia, USA, Taiwan, Poland, Romania, China, Switzerland, Great Britain.

Svetlana Tartakovska, 1979

Svetlana Tartakovska was born in Berditchev near Kiev.

She lives and works in The Netherlands and she graduated at the Klassieke Academie voor Beeldende Kunst (Classical Academy for Visual Arts) in Groningen.

She also studied at The Art Academy in Florence and attented workshops at Sam Drukker.

She is a young woman with a rich inheritance from an old culture: a treasury of world-famous authors including Dostojewsky and Lermontov and great painters like Repin.

Nikita Busyak | Urban sketcher

Nikita Busyak comes from Ukraine, the city of Kharkov, and it is this city that he depicts in his incredible illuminated architectural sketches.

In each architectural drawing, he digitally manipulates the windows so that they glow with golden light, making it seem as though someone is home.

Nikita is an inventor of Glowing Archisketch technique.

Artyom Tolstuhin, 1981

Ukrainian artist Артем Толстухін / Artyom Tolstuhin studied at the Mykola Samokysha Crimean Art College, founded in 1922, and he graduated from the Kharkov Academy of Design and Arts, Restoration Department in 2011.

Tolstukhin was elected to the All-Ukrainian Young Artists Union in 2008.

Tolstuhin has emerged as one of the leaders of the Union as well as of the Degrazh, the association of young Kharkov artists.