Ivan Hubenko

I grew up in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, and graduated from the Graphic Arts college program where I was lucky to be taught by the ‘old school’ generation who had solid academic training. Those preferences in painting as well as the atmosphere of Kryvyi Rih have formed me as an artist and defined my interests (the industrial landscape and its machine-like inhabitants). I see people dissolved in their day-to-day mechanical activities, clothes, daily routes, and familiar interiors. Sometimes a person’s image becomes more expressive and individualized but then it’s submerged by the environment again. I document and exaggerate/hyperbolize all these aspects in the painting by developing three parallel series: ‘Caps’, ‘Love’, and ‘Subtraction’.

1992-1997 – Kryvyi Rih artistic school.
1997-2002 – Kryvyi Rih Pedagogical State University, Arts department.

2017
“Roadside”, personal exhibition, "Hudgraph" gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016
“The Break”, personal exhibition, "Partcom" gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016
“The 6th solar”, personal exhibition, Hetman-Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2011
“Addition”, personal exhibition, "Art Space 365”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010
“Subtraction”, personal exhibition, "Institutskaya Gallery”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2009
“Finish Birthday”, personal exhibition, "Hudgraph" gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2009
“City Elements”, personal exhibition, "Hudgraph" gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2009
"Banzaj", group exhibition, the cultural center of the Kievo-Mogiljanska Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2009
“Coffee with oil”, personal exhibition in the cultural bar "Babaj", Kyiv, Ukraine.
2008
"Collecting”, a project within the bounds of the "Gogolfest" festival, Mistetsky Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2007
"Office”, a project within the bounds of the "Gogolfest" festival, Mistetsky Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2006
“Greetings! “, a personal project in the showroom of the Kryvyi Rih art-graphic faculty,
Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine.
2006
"Cap", a project within the bounds of the competitive program «Non-stop Media» festival, Kharkiv municipal gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2005
“Second half of October”, a p...