Ukrainian Artist
Ukraine has a rich art history rooted in folk tradition, icon painting, and a strong modern art movement that took shape through the twentieth century. This section gathers painters, sculptors, and photographers from Ukraine, spanning classical technique alongside bold contemporary work. Many Ukrainian artists draw on the country’s deep cultural heritage, using pattern, color, and symbol connected to national identity, while others work in a more international contemporary style. Explore this section to see how Ukrainian artists continue creating and sharing their work with audiences around the world.
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Mikhail & Inessa Garmash | Ukrainian Artist
Mikhail and Inessa Garmash are a husband and wife painting duo from Ukraine and Russia, born in 1969 and 1972, who both trained formally in fine art before beginning an unusual joint practice of working on the same canvas together. Considered among today’s finest Romantic Impressionists, their paintings capture the warmth of family life and…
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Andrey Poletaev | Ukrainian Artist
Andrey Poletaev is a self-taught Ukrainian artist from Lugansk who turned the ballpoint pen into a fine art tool, building large monochrome drawings from up to twenty layers of ink that can take over 300 hours to complete. His subjects range from Hollywood portraits to cityscapes of Paris, New York, Istanbul, and Prague, capturing quiet…
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Alexander Bobryshev | Ukrainian Artist
Alexander Bobryshev is a watercolor artist born in 1958 in Russia’s Volgograd region, who trained at the Kharkov State Art College in Ukraine and has lived and worked in Kharkov ever since. He first sketches his compositions in oil before translating them into one-of-a-kind watercolors, a process that gives his portraits, cityscapes, and marine scenes…
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Vadim Stein | Ukrainian Artist
Vadim Stein is a photographer born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1967, who trained in sculpture and spent years as an actor and lighting designer at Kiev’s avant-garde Theatre of Plastic Drama, an experience that shaped his eye for the body as a form of expression. Now based in St. Petersburg, Russia, he creates stark black-and-white…
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Alexey Slusar | Ukrainian Artist
Alexey Slusar is a Ukrainian painter born in 1961 in Dnepropetrovsk, trained as an architect who worked in interior design and sculpture before moving to Prague in 1998, where the city’s gothic and baroque architecture inspired him to become a full-time painter. His figurative, impressionistic oil paintings capture urban scenes, dancers, and fleeting everyday moments…
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Victoria Grigorieva | Watercolor Paintings | Ukrainian Artist
Victoria Grigorieva is a Ukrainian watercolor artist based in Kyiv, who spent 15 years as art director for the magazines Natali and The Women’s Magazine before turning fully to painting. She blends techniques like wet-in-wet, dry brush, and glazing to paint flowers, seascapes, and cityscapes with a light, confident touch. Her work has been shown…
