Biography

Table of dates:

1941 Born at Rybchyntsy Village, Vynnytsia Oblast.
1950 The family moved to Dnipropetrovsk.
1959-1965 Attended the Dnipropetrovsk Art School.
1965-1971 Studied art at the I.Repin Leningrad College of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.
1972 Married Natalka Pavlenko.
1972-1976 Lectured at the V.Mukhina Leningrad Applied Art College.
1974 Went to Czecho-Slovakia following the invitation of the Czech artist lan Daniel Smetana.
1975 Uliana, the daughter, was born. Organized the First exhibition of Ukrainian unofficial artists in Moscow.
1976-1977 Made a design of the Ukrainian Calendar for a publishing house in Warsaw.
1977 Forced to move from Leningrad to Dnipropetrovsk.
1983 Took his family back to Leningrad.
1988 The first travel to the West (Paris, France). Admitted to the Artists' Union of the USSR.
1992 Returned to Ukraine: Kiyiv.
1993 The Taras Shevchenko State Prize of Ukraine.
Since 1993 Heads the Historical Painting Workshop at the Ukrainian Art Academy.

Participation in exhibitions:

1966 The Exhibition of Young Artists. Dnipropetrovsk.
1971 The Fall Exhibition. Leningrad.
1971 The Exhibition of Drawings. Leningrad.
1973 The Still-Life. The exhibition of Leningrad artists. Leningrad.
1973 Autumn exhibition. Leningrad.
1974 lan Daniel Smetana & Feodosiy Humeniuk: The Exhibition of Painting and Graphic Art. Dukhtsov. Checho-Slovakia.
1974 The Exhibition of Unofficial Leningrad Artists. The lv.Gaza House of Culture. Leningrad.
1975 The Unofficial Art in Ukraine: The First Exhibition . Moscow.
1976 The Exhibition of Unofficial Leningrad Artists. The NEVSKY House of Culture. Leningrad.
1976 The Unofficial Art in Ukraine: The Second Exhibition. Moscow.
1977 The Exhibition of Dnipropetrovsk Artists. Dnipropetrovsk.
1977 The Exhibition of Eighteen Leningrad Artists. Yerevan. Armenia.
1981 The Fifth Republican Exhibition of Water-Colors. Kiyiv.
1983 The Fall Exhibition. Leningrad.
1984 The Seventh All-Union Exhibition of Water-Colors. Baku. Azerbaijan.
1984 The Zonal Exhibition of Painting, Graphic Art, and Sculpture. Leningrad.
1985 The Small-Form Graphic Art. Leningrad.
1985 The Exhibition of Fourteen Unofficial Leningrad Artists. Leningrad.
1986 Our Contemporary. The exhibition of Leningrad artists. Leningrad.
1986 The Exhibition of Fourteen Unofficial Artists. Leningrad.
1986 The Small-Form Graphic Art. Leningrad.
1986 The Unofficial Art of Eastern Europe. The Micmaster University. Hamilton, Canada.
1987 The Eighth All-Union Exhibition of Water-Colors. Leningrad.
1987 The Centennial of O.Arkhypenko: The Exhibition of Ukrainian Art. Toronto, Canada.
1988 The Contemporary Art of Leningrad. Leningrad.
1988 The Millennium of Baptism of Rus. Leningrad.
1988 The Millennium of Baptism of Rus. The republican exhibition. Novgorod.
1988 The Contemporary Art of Ukraine. New-York, Philadelphia. U.S.A.
1990 Shagalline perilliset (The successors of Marc Chagall). The Velvarte Gallery. Turku, Finland.
1990 The 20th c. Ukrainian Painting. 1900-1940; 1960-1980. Kiyiv.
1990 The Exhibition of Leningrad Artists. Leningrad.
1990 Le Salon Automnal (The Fall Salon) . Le Grand Palais. Paris. France.
1991 The Biennial Exhibition. Lviv-91. Lviv.
1991 The Republican Exhibition. Russia-91. Moscow.
1991 The Contemporary Art of St.Petersburg. St.Petersburg.
1992 The Collection of V.Samsonov: The Russian Art. St.Petersburg.
1994 The Anniversary Exhibition. 1974-1994. Twenty Years of Gahonevsica Culture. St.Petersburg.