Stasik Kuchma

For the first five years of my life I lived in a derelict building in the countryside outside Cherkassy, Ukraine. My parents were both alcoholics, so my earliest memories are of aching hunger and begging food from neighbours or collecting berries and mushrooms from the fields and forests for my two younger sisters and myself.
When I was five, my mum and dad split, so we went to live with my grandmother, who was also an alcoholic and lived in a drinking den with about five men. These drunks were very cruel and bullied us with frightening threats and beatings.
One day, after more than two years of living in the stinking squalor of this drinking den, by the railway station, our grandmother decided to put Nastiya and me into Smela Internat, but she kept Ira, the youngest.
One day it happened that a lady saw Ira, sitting outside the apartment covered from head to toe in bruises. She took her into her own home and she learned about Nastiya and me. She had heard about a man called Vic Jackopson, who had started a home in Cherkassy for homeless children. All three of us were united again when we went to live at that home called Alpha House with our new guardians, Misha and Lyena Vishemirsky. For the first time we were a real family with ot...

Graduated First City Gymnasium, Cherkassy, Ukraine and Cherkassy School of Art and Design, Cherkassy State University, Cherkassy, Ukraine.

INTERNATIONAL ART PRIZE

International Art Prize “Inclusion”.Dedicated to emerging
artists from multiple countries. I was invited by the curator Inna Yakovets. Nomination: Winner in graphic art in animation “The dragon story”

AWARD 2.
INTERNATIONAL ART PRIZE

International Art award in exhibition “Design & Education”. Young emerging graphic artists participated from different countries. I was invited to participate and won the first place in nomination: “Graphics” Bridges of London. Linocuts. 2018. Kharkiv
In addition to the above international competitions I won awards in 8 local exhibitions in Cherkassy, Ukraine and one in Birmingham, AL. United States