Bohdan Tkachyk


Bohdan Tkachyk is a Ukrainian painter, public figure. He was the husband of and father of Solomiia Tkachyk. He served as a deputy in the Ternopil Oblast Council from 1990 to 1994. He was a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine from 1982.

Biography

He received his initial art education in 1961–1962 at the Sambir Children's Art Studio under the guidance of. He studied at the Shevchenko State Art School in Kyiv and at the monumental painting department of the Lviv School of Applied Arts.
From 1973, he lived in Ternopil, working in the art and production workshops of the Art Fund of the Ukrainian SSR, and from 1978 in the regional art and design combine.
From 1975, he participant in group exhibitions in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Lviv, Bratislava, Sliven, Ternopil; solo exhibitions in Lviv, Ternopil, Sambir, Stryi, Berezhany, at the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv and the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the .
From 1989 he was a member of the Political Leadership of the Regional Council of the People's Movement of Ukraine; from 1990 he was a member of the Grand Council of the People's Movement of Ukraine.
From 1992 to 2000, he was the head of the Ternopil branch of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

Creativity

He works in the field of easel and monumental painting.

Easel works (paintings)

Monumental paintings

  • "Zemlia Podilska"
  • "Troiandy i Vynohrad"
  • "Vikno do Znan"
  • "Istoriia Medytsyny"
Tkachyk's works illustrate a number of books by Yaroslav Sachko and other authors from Ternopil.

Icon paintings

Bohdan Tkachyk, among others, painted the following churches:

Exhibitions

The works are exhibited at the Ternopil Regional Art Museum, the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Art Museum, and the Sambir Children's Art Gallery; They are stored in the Lviv National Art Museum, in the city of Baturyn in the Chernihiv Oblast, in Zbarazh Castle, in the Ternopil Oblast Museum and the Ternopil Regional Art Museum, and in private collections in Ukraine and abroad.

Awards