Ihor Stefiuk

Ihor Stefiuk was a Ukrainian artist of decorative arts, teacher, docent. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

Biography

Ihor Stefiuk was born on 14 May 1949 in Rozhniv.
In 1973, he graduated with honors from the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts.
He worked as a lecturer, docent at the Department of Artistic Woodworking at the Lviv National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.
He died in December 2017 in Lviv.

Creativity

He created colored wood sculptures, using elements of traditional Ukrainian folk art, especially the technique of painting icons and sacred polychrome. A personal posthumous exhibition was held in 2022 in Lviv.
The works are kept in the collections of the Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, the Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts, the Andrei Sheptytskyi National Museum of Lviv, the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv; private collections in Poland, Hungary, Germany, Israel, and the United States.