BIOGRAPHY

Mykola Zhuravel was born in 1960 in Ukraine. Zhuravel graduated from the prestigious Kyiv State Arts Academy in 1989 and currently resides and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. The artist is a member of the National Artists' Union of Ukraine since 1995 and the BG-ART Association, the Kyiv-based artists' association, since 1999.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2006

  • Personal exhibition – the “Apairy” art project presentation for the 52nd Venice Festival of Contemporary Art, “Soviart” art gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, booklet, video

2005

  • Personal exhibition – the “Apairy” art project, “Zorya” fine art gallery, Greenwich, USA, catalogue, documentary film
  • Group exhibition of photos: O. Glyadelov, I. Palamarchuk, M. Zhuravel, the Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA
  • Personal exhibition – the “Apairy” performance, the “Art-blues” gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, booklet, documentary film

2004

  • Personal exhibition – Retrospective review of M. Zhuravel’ projects, the Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA
  • Group exhibition – 350 years later, Artists House, Kyiv, Ukraine

2003

  • Personal painting exhibition, the Municipal Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • The “Apairy” project’s draft-exhibition, the “Soviart” Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Personal painting exhibition, the “L-Art” gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Personal exhibition – Four Steps: Zhuravel, Painting, Gallery ArtEast, Kyiv, Ukraine, catalogue

2002

  • Art of Ukraine, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia, catalogue
  • Sophine Symbols of Being (part II); group exhibition with P. Bevza, O. Lytvynenko, M. Malyshko, N. Denysova, A. Hurenko, O. Fil, curated by P. Bevza. Hlibnya exhibition hall, Kyiv, Ukraine, catalogue

2001

  • Sophine Symbols of Existence (part I); group exhibition with P. Bevza, O. Lytvynenko, M. Malyshko, O. Malyshko, N. Denysova, curated by P. Bevza, with text for the exhibition catalogue by S. Krymsky, Hlibnya exhibition hall, Kyiv, Ukraine, catalogue
  • Land-art, joint project with V. Shkarupa, H. Hidora, A. Bludov, village of Mohrytsia, Sumy region, Ukraine
  • Strata, levkas, Gallery 36, Kyiv, Ukraine

2000

  • Group exhibition with R. Romanyshyn, O. Pinchuk, M. Pryimachenko, Yokohama Municipal Gallery, Japan

1999

  • Group exhibition with M. Vaisberg and B. Eghiazarian, Bern, Switzerland

1998

  • Group exhibition with Y. Solomko and O. Babak, Athelier Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Personal exhibition of paintings, Gallery 36, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Personal exhibition of levkas works, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Spherography-2, Soviart Gallery (photography, video, graphic art, objects), Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Joint exhibition with A. Bludov, Embassy of the United Kingdom, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Spherography-Spherogram, performance work (part of personal project TransSphere), BG-art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Robinsoniad (performance work), with the support of the ARTaniya all-Ukrainian association, Khmel'nytsky, Ukraine

1997

  • Joint exhibition with A. Bludov, Gallery 36, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Personal exhibition of paintings, Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Art-Festival, Authentic Melancholy, joint project with O. Babak, P. Honchar, curated by Î. Tytarenko, Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine

1996

  • Text Territory (part II), plein air performance work, Sviatohorsk reserve, curated by S. Teslo, ². Orlova, Sviatohorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine

1995

  • Text Territory (part I), plein air performance work, Sviatohorsk reserve, curated by S. Teslo, I. Orlova, Sviatohorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine
  • Joint exhibition with A. Bludov, Municipal Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

1994

  • Christmas Vernissage, Vesta-ART Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • The First All-Ukrainian Art Fair, Kyiv, Ukraine

1992

  • Personal exhibition of paintings, Lions Club, Seligenstadt, Germany
  • ART-MYTH Art Fair, Moscow, Russia

AWARDS:

1998

  • First Place, the Ukrainian Painting Triennale, Kyiv, Ukraine

1996

  • Awarded the Zolotyi Peretyn Prize and Artist of the Year title, First International ART Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

PRIVATE

  • George W. Bush
  • Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Morris J. Pinto
  • Volodymyr Shandra
  • Ralph C. Roe II

PUBLIC

  • SoviArt Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Art Museum, Sumy, Ukraine