Ruslan Malets

Ruslan Malets was born on April 17, 1981 in Horodok, Khmelnytskyi region. He started painting in his early childhood. His first works were on wallpaper.
In 1996, he entered the Kosiv School of Applied and Decorative Arts, specializing in artistic painting, and graduated in 2000. Then he studied for a year at the Ivan Trush Lviv State College of Decorative and Applied Arts. For another six years he studied at the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts (Department of Art Glass). After graduation, Ruslan worked as a glass artist for several years. He created Tiffany and fusion stained glass windows. The artist also had experience in church painting and stone carving. But he started painting only in 2019. At first, he depicted his ideas on canvases, and then on wooden boards that once served as fences. For several years now, the artist has been making tablets out of them and thus giving the old wood a second life.
Ruslan Malets became famous for his paintings on boards. Today his works can be seen in leading galleries in Ukraine. They are also kept in private collections in France, Latvia, Italy, and Germany. The artist also participates in group and solo exhibitions.
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2001-2007
Lviv National Academy of Arts, Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts (Department of Art Glass).
Lviv, Ukraine"
Teachers: Ihor Mykula, Oleksandr Shevchenko

2000-2001
Lviv State College of Decorative and Applied Arts
named after Ivan Trush.
Lviv, Ukraine"
Teachers: Mykola Krytskyi

1996-2000
Kosiv College of Applied and Decorative Arts
(department of artistic painting).
Kosiv, "Ukraine"
Teachers: Roman Luchuk, Vasyl Pereghinets,
Anton Hryhoruk, Volodymyr Humenyuk

1991-1996
Horodotsk Children's Art School.
Town, Khmelnytskyi region, "Ukraine"
Teachers: Oksana Furlet, Anatoly Furlet

Personal exhibitions

2022
G-Museum "Putin-kaput", Horodok, Khmelnytskyi region, "Ukraine"

2007
"Extreme House" Gallery, Lutsk, "Ukraine"

Group exhibitions

2022
"...And rise", Art project, Lavra gallery, dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Kyiv, "Ukraine"

"Catching the elusive bird", art museum, All-Ukrainian exhibition dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Poltava, "Ukraine"

"The world through the eyes of artists", All-Ukrainian exhibition for the artist's day of Ukraine, Kyiv, "Ukraine"

"Faces of Freedom", curator "Dmytro Gorditsa", Sofia Kyivska, to the Independence Day of Ukraine, Kyiv, "Ukraine"

"Paints of the Flame of Hearts", curator "Volodymyr Kozyuk", presents the People's Diplomacy Project for the 31st Anniversary of Ukraine's Independence

"With love to Ukraine", curator "Olga Kotlyarova-prokopenko", International online art exhibition, Odesa, "Ukraine"

2021
"New - ART", curator "Olga Hrytsenko", the second all-Ukrainian triennial, Kremenchuk, "Ukraine"

"Hryvnia ART", curator "Tatyana Vasylenko", in the art center "Svitovyd", Kolomyia, "Ukraine"

"Hryvnia ART", curator "Tatyana Vasylenko", Kyiv Museum, All-U...