Mikhaylo Chornyi

A Ukrainian Realist, Neo-Primitivist painter and graphic artist. Often described as "the founder of Ukrainian Neo-Folk Style". A member of Ukrainian National Artists' Union since 1968. People's Artist of Ukraine (2003).
Studied art from 1956 to 1961 at Odessa State Art College n.a. M. Grekov, and same year entered Kyiv Art Institute (nowadays The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, which graduated with a Master's Degree in Fine Arts in 1968 (professors: Mykhaylo Khmelko and Victor Shatalin).
At the post-graduate school in Soviet Academy of Arts studied in Sergey Grigoriev's and Mykhaylo Deregus's workshop.
Transformed the Socialist realism artistic manner I was taught through a Ukrainian academic romanticism and historicism, rare at that time of Soviet censorship and pressure, to a new folk artistic style.

Awards:
I Prize at The All-Union Arkhip Kuindzhi Contest(1973)
I Prize at The Nikolai Trublaini Contest (1976)
National Artist of Ukraine (People's Artist of Ukraine)(2003)

My works are in possession of Soviet Ministry of Culture, Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, leading Ukrainian State museums, in private collections of Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Poland...

Studied art from 1956 to 1961 at Odessa State Art College n.a. M. Grekov, and same year entered Kyiv Art Institute (nowadays The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, which graduated with a Master's Degree in Fine Arts in 1968 (professors: Mykhaylo Khmelko and Victor Shatalin).
At the post-graduate school in Soviet Academy of Arts studied in Sergey Grigoriev's and Mykhaylo Deregus's workshop.

More than 50 personal exhibitions of paintings and graphics all over former Soviet Union and throughout nowadays Ukraine.