Valerii Franchuk

"I create for people not to forget that they have a soul. And it is said to be eternal…"

• Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1990;
• Laureate of the Vasyl Stus Prize, 2003;
• Honored Artist of Ukraine since 2005;
• Laureate of the National Taras Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine, 2008;
• Member of the National Union of Designers of Ukraine since 2014;
• People's Artist of Ukraine since 2015;

Born on September 10, 1950, in the village of Zelena, Krasyliv District, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. Has been the resident of the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, since 1980. From 1986 to 1989 - worked in the graphic workshop of the Kyiv Monumental Art Factory. Has been working creatively every day since 1990.

Since 2014, Valerii Franchuk has donated over 30 paintings for 10 charity auctions to support the defenders of Ukraine and sick children.

The artist's creative output over more than 35 years consists of over 8,000 paintings, more than 3,000 graphic works (under the unifying title "Sketchbook of Time"), and about 200 sculptures. His work resonates widely within public circles and among the cultural elite. To date, more than 360 reviews and publications have been written in newspapers and magazines in Ukraine and around the ...

1981-1986 - Kyiv State Art Institute (now the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture), in the graphic arts faculty, in the easel graphics workshop.

Since 1983, he has been actively exhibiting both within Ukraine and far beyond its borders. He has participated in more than 170 group, republican, and international art exhibitions, as well as over 200 solo exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad.

Personal exhibitions of Valerii Franchuk abroad:

1999 - Rapallo, Italy, Gallery “LE ARTE”;
2002 - Athens, Greece, Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens;
2002 - Riga, Latvia, Ukrainian-Lithuanian Public Organization “Apriori”, Gallery “Nellia”;
2002 - Riga, Latvia, Baltic russian Institute;
2007 - Budapest, Hungary, Museum of Terror;
2008 - Rapallo, Italy, Gallery CRISTALLODI;
2008 - Berlin, Germany, Berlin Wall Museum;
2008 - Berlin, Germany, Embassy of Ukraine in Germany;
2008 - Magdeburg, Germany, Ukrainian Center ArtDepot, November -- December;
2008-2009 - Warsaw, Poland, Embassy of Ukraine in Poland;
2008-2009 - Warsaw, Poland, University. Royal Palace, December -- January;
2009 - Warsaw, Poland, Polish Sejm. “Swaying Bells of Memory”;
2011 - Athens, Greece, Center “Olympia” for the 20th Anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence, 20.09 -- 27.09;
2012 - Athens, Greece, Athens Art Gallery “There is a Studio” Kifisia (20 years of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and the Hellenic Rep...