Biography

Mykola Zhuravel was born in 1960 in Mahnitogorsk, Russia. Zhuravel graduated from the prestigious Kyiv State Arts Academy in 1989 and currently resides and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. The artist is a member of the National Artists' Union of Ukraine since 1995 and the BG-ART Association, the Kyiv-based artists' association, since 1999.

Academician of the Academy of Rome-modernist art 2009

The nominee on the Shevchenkovska award 2011

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

2013 Art Studio Voluiky, Palace of Arts, Lviv
2013 "Anatomya of spring", Mystetska Zbirka gallrry,Kyiv
2013 IV FINE ART UKRAINE, Mystetskiy Arsenal, Kyiv
2012 Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA
2011 Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA
2011 Venice Biennale, Italia
2010 В.В.lu HisuВ.В. museum, Shanhai, China
2010 ECSPO-2010, Shanhai, China Ukrainian pavilion
2010 ART KYIV CONTEMPORARY Herytazhe gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 Personal exhibition Lavra gallery, A-Hause gallery Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 Personal exhibition the Apairy art project Voltahalle gallery Basel
2008 Personal exhibition painting Hause Kyiv, Ukraine
2007 Fine art, Moscow, Russia
2007 Personal exhibition painting Herytazhe gallery, Moscow, Russia

2006
Personal exhibition the Apairy art project presentation for the 52nd Venice Festival of Contemporary Art,
Soviart art gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, booklet, video

2005
Personal exhibition the Apairy art project,
Zorya fine art gallery, Greenwich, USA, catalogue, documentary film
Group exhibition of photos: O. Glyadelov, I. Palamarchuk, M. Zhuravel, the Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA
Personal exhibition the Apairy performance, the Art-blues gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, booklet, documentary film

2004
Personal exhibition Retrospective review of M. Zhuravel projects, the Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA
Group exhibition 350 years later, Artists House, Kyiv, Ukraine

2003
Personal painting exhibition, the Municipal Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
The Apairy project's draft-exhibition, the В.Soviart Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
Personal painting exhibition, the L-Art gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Personal exhibition Four Steps: Zhuravel, Painting, Gallery ArtEast, Kyiv, Ukraine, catalogue

2002
Art of Ukraine, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia, catalogue
Sophine Symbols of Being (part II); group exhibition with P. Bevza, O. Lytvynenko, M. Malyshko, N. Denysova, A. Hurenko, O. Fil, curated by P. Bevza. Hlibnya exhibition hall, Kyiv, Ukraine, catalogue

2001
Sophine Symbols of Existence (part I); group exhibition with P. Bevza, O. Lytvynenko, M. Malyshko, O. Malyshko, N. Denysova, curated by P. Bevza, with text for the exhibition catalogue by S. Krymsky, Hlibnya exhibition hall, Kyiv, Ukraine, catalogue
Land-art, joint project with V. Shkarupa, H. Hidora, A. Bludov, village of Mohrytsia, Sumy region, Ukraine
Strata, levkas, Gallery 36, Kyiv, Ukraine

2000
Group exhibition with R. Romanyshyn, O. Pinchuk, M. Pryimachenko, Yokohama Municipal Gallery, Japan

1999
Group exhibition with M. Vaisberg and B. Eghiazarian, Bern, Switzerland

1998
Group exhibition with Y. Solomko and O. Babak, Athelier Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Personal exhibition of paintings, Gallery 36, Kyiv, Ukraine
Personal exhibition of levkas works, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Spherography-2, Soviart Gallery (photography, video, graphic art, objects), Kyiv, Ukraine
Joint exhibition with A. Bludov, Embassy of the United Kingdom, Kyiv, Ukraine
Spherography-Spherogram, performance work (part of personal project TransSphere), BG-art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Robinsoniad (performance work), with the support of the ARTaniya all-Ukrainian association, Khmel'nytsky, Ukraine

1997
Joint exhibition with A. Bludov, Gallery 36, Kyiv, Ukraine
Personal exhibition of paintings, Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
Art-Festival, Authentic Melancholy, joint project with O. Babak, P. Honchar, curated by Г.В.. Tytarenko, Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine

1996
Text Territory (part II), plein air performance work, Sviatohorsk reserve, curated by S. Teslo, Г.В.. Orlova, Sviatohorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine

1995
Text Territory (part I), plein air performance work, Sviatohorsk reserve, curated by S. Teslo, I. Orlova, Sviatohorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine
Joint exhibition with A. Bludov, Municipal Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

1994
Christmas Vernissage, Vesta-ART Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
The First All-Ukrainian Art Fair, Kyiv, Ukraine

1992
Personal exhibition of paintings, Lions Club, Seligenstadt, Germany
ART-MYTH Art Fair, Moscow, Russia

AWARDS:

1998
First Place, the Ukrainian Painting Triennale, Kyiv, Ukraine

1996
Awarded the Zolotyi Peretyn Prize and Artist of the Year title, First International ART Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

PRIVATE:
George W. Bush
Yulia Tymoshenko
Morris J. Pinto
Sam Hunter
Gi Pery
Volodymyr Shandra
Vitaliy Gayduk
Ralph C. Roe II

PUBLIC:
SoviArt Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine