Liubomyr Medvid

Liubomyr Myroslavovych Medvid is a Ukrainian painter. In 1970, he became a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. In 2004, he was elected an academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.

Biography

He was born on 10 July 1941, in Variazh-misto, now the Variazh Sheptytskyi Raion of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
In 1965, he graduated from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, where he studied with Karlo Zvirynskyi, Vitold Manastyrskyi, and Roman Selskyi. The following year, in 1966, he began working at his Alma mater, where in 1992 he became the head of the Department of Monumental and Decorative Painting, and from 2001 to the present day he has been a professor. In 1970–1988, he also worked at the Lviv Art and Production Plant.

He works in the fields of easel and monumental art. In the 1960s, he began to participate in exhibitions. His personal exhibitions were held in Lviv, Kyiv, Vilnius, Toronto, Chicago, Khmelnytskyi, Gdansk and others.
Some of the paintings are kept in the collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv, the National Museum of Lviv, the Khmelnytsky Art Museum, and others.
Main works:

panel in the cafe "Pid levom" ;
painting – "Evakuatsiia", "Druzhyna", "Podolianka", "S. Liudkevych", "M. Hohol", "Kholodne lito", "T. Shevchenko", "Lesia Ukrainka", "I. Franko", "T. Shevchenko na Arali", "Avtoportret", "Skrypal O. Krysa", "Blakytnyi choven. Svitiaz", "Sukha vesna", "Pisnia, yaku zvychaino spivaiut na voli", "Pliazh", "Interventsiia", "Bludnyi syn", "Yepyskop Yulian Gbur", "Pivdennyi khrest" ;
cycles — "Peredmistia", "Evakuatsii", "Staryi Lviv", "Emihranty", "Pershi kolhospy na Lvivshchyni", "Prasloviany", "Povoienna vesna", "Zemlia i liudy", "Halychanski doli", "Interiery", "Roztochchia", "Prytchi", "Ecce homo", "Terra incognita" ;
painted the vicarage icons for St. George's Cathedral of Lviv;

iconostasis of the Ukrainian chapel of the Church of the Body of God in the suburbs of Kraków ;