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Valeriy Skrypka
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artist's biography
Valeriy Skrypka was born in 1964 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine into a family of artist. He graduated from the renowned Kyiv Academy of the Arts with a Master’s Degree in art in 1992.
Skrypka synthesizes images from his Ukrainian past with his own perceptions in imaginative and fully realized works of art that are true to contemporary experience. The artist exhibits nationally and in Europe.
"In my creativity, I aspire to interpret the inconceivableness of the universe, in which chaos wondrously coexists with the magnetism of an orderly rhythm. The components of my vision of this universe are fantastic combinations of its deformed elements. These are definite symbolic markings for guessing the mystery of the world, a temptation to contemplate. So called surrealistic stresses in my fantasies are not marshaled to elicit gothic horror or disgust but rather an idyll, a unity of rhythm and motion, motion and support. My mythological beings are sphinx-like mysteries, which everyone interprets in their own way but none have solved. My creativity – this is a perpetual search for true understanding of the unfathomable. It's why favorite mythological symbols in my work – the apple of paradise, a wonderous bird, the is itinerant gardener – exit in perpetual levels of metamorphasis".
EDUCATION
| 1986 - 92 | Graduate, M.A. in Monumental Paintings, Kyiv Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 1979 - 83 | Undergraduate, B.A. in Fine Arts, Dnipropetrowsk College of Art, Dnipropetrowsk, Ukraine | |
| 1974 -79 | Zaporizhzhia Art School, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine |
PROFESSIONAL activities and AFFILIATIONS
| 1994 - present | Member, Artist’s Association of Ukraine |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2006 | JKK Fine Arts, Upper Montclair, NJ | |
| 2005 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, NJ | |
| 2004 | Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 2004 | Zorya Fine Art, Greenwich,Conn | |
| 2004 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, NJ | |
| 2003 | Pieter Breugel Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2003 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, NJ | |
| 2001 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, NJ | |
| 2000 | Galerie de Provence, New York City | |
| 1997 | Valeriy Skrypka: “Enigmas”, Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, NJ | |
| 1994 | Chryzanta Gallery, New York City | |
| 1993 | Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the USA, New York City | |
| 1991 | Ukrainian Art Gallery, Munich, Germany |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2000-2001 | Art in America. Guide Sourcebook to the U.S. Art World to museums galleries artists.Page | |
| 1999 | Valeriy Skrypka, Oil painting and watercolors. ART NEWS. April, 1999, Page 51. Art -Kyiv. International festival. artgalleriesAssociation of Ukraine. 1999, Page 60. | |
| 1998-99 | Art in America. Guide Sourcebook to the U.S. Art World to museums galleries artists. Page 118, 249. | |
| 1997-98 | Art in America. Guide Sourcebook to the U.S. Art World to museums galleries artists.Page 113,243. | |
| 1994 | Abraham Ilein, ‘The dream world of Valeriy Skrypka’, ART SPEAK, New York, April, 1994. | |
| 1994 | Valeriy Skrypka. The Fine Art Index, International Edition. International Art Reference: Chicago, 1994. Page 196. BOOK Valeriy Skrypka. Preface by Sam Hunter. Oil and watercolor.2000. 142 P. |
MUSEUM COLLECTION
Ukrainian Museum of Stamford, CT
Art Museum of Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Collection GRADOBANK, Kyiv, Ukraine
Collection Bank AVAL, Kyiv, Ukrain
Private Collections in the USA, Canada, France, Japan, Denmark, Sweden and Germany.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2007 | Frederic Got Fine Art. Paris, Saint-Paul, Barbizon, France | |
| 2007 | Lagalery Fine Art. Saint Paul, France | |
| 2007 | Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 2007 | JJK Fine Arts. Upper Montclair, NJ | |
| 2006 | Frederic Got Fine Art, Paris, Saint-Paul, Barbizon, France | |
| 2006 | Galerie Ange Bova. Nice, France | |
| 2006 | JJK Fine Arts. Upper Montclair, NJ | |
| 2006 | Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 2006 | Peter Breughel Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| 2005 | Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 2005 | Pieter Breughel Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| 2005 | Zorya Fine Art, Greenwich,Conn | |
| 2005 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, NJ | |
| 2005 | Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 2005 | Galerie des Lys, New York, NY | |
| 2005 | Zorya Fine Art, Greenwich, Conn. | |
| 2005 | Galerie de Provence, Eze,France | |
| 2004 | Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 2004 | Zorya Fine Art, Greenwich, Conn | |
| 2004 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, NJ | |
| 2004 | Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 2004 | Breughel Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| 2003 | Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 2003 | Zorya Fine Art, Greenwich, Conn. | |
| 2003 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, NJ | |
| 2003 | Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 2003 | Galerie de Provence, New York City; Beverly Hills, CA; Eze, France | |
| 2002 | Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 2002 | Zorya Fine Art, Greenwich, Conn | |
| 2002 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, NJ | |
| 2002 | Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 2001 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, NJ | |
| 2001 | Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 2001 | EastwicÍ Art Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 2001 | Pieter Breughel Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| 2001 | Galerie de Provence, New York City; Beverly Hills, CA; Eze, France | |
| 2000 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, NJ | |
| 2000 | Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 2000 | Eastwick Art Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 2000 | Galerie de Provence, New York City | |
| 2000 | P¥eter Breughel Art Gallery, Amsterdam,The Netherlands | |
| 1999 | Marsha Child Contemporary: “New Perspectives: The Human Figure”, Princeton, NJ | |
| 1999 | Forrest Scott Group, Millburn, NJ | |
| 1999 | Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 1999 | Eastwick Art Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 1999 | Galerie de Provence. New York City | |
| 1998 | Marsha Child Contemporary: Princeton | |
| 1998 | International Art Exhibition, Princeton, NJ | |
| 1998 | Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 1998 | Eastwick Art Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 1998 | Forrest Scott Group, Millburn, NJ | |
| 1998 | Galerie de Provence, New York City | |
| 1997 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Princeton, NJ | |
| 1997 | Galerie de Provence, New York City | |
| 1996 | Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 1996 | Biennial: Pan Ukraine, Dnipropetrowsk, Ukraine | |
| 1995 | Gallery Trypillia, Cleveland, OH | |
| 1995 | Marsha Child Contemporary, “Recent Works on Paper”, Solebury, PA | |
| 1995 | Riverrun Gallery: “Myth in Modern Times”, Lambertville, NJ | |
| 1994 | Gallery Grazhda, Annual Exhibition of Ukrainian Artists in the USA, Hunter, NY | |
| 1994 | Riverrun Gallery: “The Sacred and the Profane”, Lambertville, NJ | |
| 1994 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Solebury, PA | |
| 1994 | Gallery UAAssociation: Ukrainian Traditions, “The Tree of Life”, New York City | |
| 1994 | Marsha Child Contemporary, Umerov Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | |
| 1993 | Langone Center Cave: Focus on Russia and East Europe, Bucknell University, PA | |
| 1992 | Gallery of Artist’s Association of Ukraine: The 70th Anniversary Exhibition of Outstanding Graduate Students of the National Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine Group of the Ukrainian Artists represents the Painting and the Sculpture of Ukraine, Paris, France | |
| 1991 | Gallery of Artist’s Association of Ukraine: Exhibition of Young Artists, Sedniv-91, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
| 1990-91 | The Exhibition of the Ukrainian Contemporary Art in Japan (Joint Venture company Fishermanz Harbor & Ukinko), Fiery Russia & Kyoto, Japan | |
| 1991 | Exhibition of the Contemporary Art of Soviet Union, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1991 | ”Art Today and Always”, Otary, Japan | |
| 1991 | Gallery of INT- TV Network Company: “ Contemporary Art of Ukraine”, Sapporo, Japan | |
| 1991 | Snoye: The Contemporary Fine Art, Matsumoto, Japan | |
| 1991 | Roksolana Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 1991 | Henri Tannas Gallery, Mississauga, Canada | |
| 1991 | Shepmanshorden Gallery: The Exhibition of Ukrainian Contemporary | |
| 1991 | Art, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 1991 | Gallery Marie-Therese Cochin: “The Eleven Russian Artists”, Paris, France | |
| 1990 | Gallery of Artist’s Association of Ukraine: “Ecology”, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
| 1989 | Gallery of Artist’s Association of Ukraine, Exhibition of Young Artist’s Works, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
| 1989 | Gallery of Artist’s Association of Ukraine, “Picturesque Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
| 1988 | Gallery of Artist’s Association of Ukraine, National Exhibition ”Picturesque Ukraine”, Kyiv, Gallery of Artist’s Association of Ukraine, 70th Anniversary of the Youth League, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
| 1987 | Gallery Manyezh, Exhibition of Young Artists, Moscow, USSR Gallery of Artist’s Association of Ukraine, Drawing and Watercolor, Kyiv, Ukraine Gallery of Artist’s Association of Ukraine, “The Youth of the Country”, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
| 1986 | Art Museum of Zaporizhzhia, National Exhibition, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Gallery of Artist’s Association of Ukraine, Autumn Show of Young Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine |