Andriy Klishyn

CV of the artist Andrii Klishyn

I was born on February 27, 1958 in the city of Kirovobad, Azerbaijan Republic of the USSR. My grandfather Oleksiy Klishin moved there due to hunger and poverty from the Orenburg region, where free Cossack immigrants from Ukraine lived, following the Stolypin reform of 1906. My parents: father is a high-class machine operator, coordinator, mother is a German teacher, almost immediately after his birth they moved to East Kazakhstan, to the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk. I lived there for 15 years, finished school and grew up. In 1975, he moved to the Crimea, and in 1978 he settled in Eastern Ukraine, in the city of Horlivka. He graduated from technical and economic institutes and worked as an engineer, a teacher, then in the field of insurance, finance and a bank. Since May 2014, a forced migrant, he has been living in Kyiv.

As a professional artist, I started my career late, at the age of 61. But it is possible that it was supposed to happen that way. Everything has its time. Rich life experience became the source of my creativity. My art is ambiguous and unlike any other, probably because, "I paint with my heart." Sometimes I use intuitive drawing, namely: not from nature and not from a photo, but only w...

I have been drawing all my life, but I got my education as an engineer and an economist. As we say: "I, unspoiled by artistic education."

Participation in exhibitions:

- In the Kyiv art center "Family Kvest", Ukraine, Kyiv, 2019,

- Exhibitions of the Art Street project, Kyiv, Ukraine, Kyiv 2020-2022,

- Combined exhibition of the "Museum of Modern Art of the Korsak Family", Ukraine, Lutsk, 2021,

- Three joint exhibitions at the Kyiv Gallery "Globus" Ukraine, Kyiv, 2020-2022,

- Exhibition of the Art project "Performance of one day", Ukraine, Uzhhorod. 2022,

- Combined exhibition at the Art Gallery "Mody Art", Ukraine, Kyiv, 2022,

- Personal exhibition in the Art space "CLUB", Ukraine, Kyiv, 2022,

- Organized charity exhibition in Lviv at the Art Center "Stargorod", Lviv, 2023,

- Organized charitable exhibition of the "Serhiy Prytula Foundation", Kyiv, 2023,

- Personal exhibition at the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema, Maria Museum
Zankovetska, Kyiv, 2023,

- Personal exhibition at the museum-workshop of I.P. Kavaleridze, Kyiv, 2023.