Mykola Zhuravel

Ukrainian artist Mykola Zhuravel breaks the boundaries between painting and sculpture, performance and installation art. Zhuravel turns to nature to create thriving monuments to man’s links to the Earth itself. He searches for compatibility between Earth and mankind, while pointedly making reference to the obstacles that human beings have placed in the way of a harmonious existence. Zhuravel’s ambitious style results in a remarkable series of living images of a visionary utopia. By using levkas, a traditional primer employed by icon painters, Zhuravel unites the legacies of Byzantine icon painting with his contemporary painterly technique. The result, richly vibrant and inventive contemporary works that emerge as modern-day icons.

Mykola Zhuravel was born in 1960 in Magnitohorsk, Russia.
Currently resides and works in Toronto, ON, Canada.

1979- Crimean art school im.Samokisha, Simferopol, Ukraine
1989 - graduated from the
prestigious Kyiv State Arts Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine

2022
• Mykola Zhuravel & Daria Tischenko-Zhuravel, Art Toronto Fair, Toronto, Canada
• Mykola Zhuravel & Daria Tischenko-Zhuravel, The International Peace Festival, The Canadian National Exhibition Association (CNEA), Withrow Common Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• Mykola Zhuravel & Daria Tischenko-Zhuravel, Invasion Redux. The Canadian National Exhibition Association (CNEA), Withrow Common Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2019
• “Painting/Levkas”, Museum of History of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
•XIIth Florence Biennale, «Art + Design», ST•H Gallery, Florence, Italy
• Texas Contemporary Art Fair, George R. Brown Convention Center, Texas, USA
• THE FIRST ALL-UKRAINIAN LEVAKAS BIENNIAL, White World Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine (First Prize)
2018
• Retrospective personal exhibition, Painting / Levkas, Museum of Contemporary Art of Korsakiv, Lutsk, Ukraine.
2017
• “Transformation of space”, White World Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2016
• “Violence. Power. Rule” Kunstverein ART-Project Worpswede. Berlin, Germany
(First Prize)
• “Community”, Exhibition Hall of the Art Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
• “Strength of Materials”, Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
• “Ukraine. Archetype of Freedom", Vienna, Austria
2013
• “Zorya Fine ...