Volodymyr Petrashyk


Volodymyr Petrashyk is a Ukrainian art historian, art critic, participant in the Russo-Ukrainian War. In 2008, he became a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. From 2012, he has been a candidate of art history, and in 2015, he became an docent.

Biography

Volodymyr Petrashik was born on 25 July 1985 in Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast.
In 2008, he graduated from the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kyiv, where his teachers were Oleksandr Fedoruk,, and Liudmyla Miliaieva. In 2010, he began working at his alma mater, where he has been head of the Department of Art Theory and History from 2022. From 2019 to 2020, he was a senior researcher at the Research Department of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.
In 2006, he began collaborating with the magazine Obrazotvorche Mystetstvo, and in 2020, he was appointed its editor-in-chief. From 2012 to 2015, he was the scientific secretary of the Fine Arts Department of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.
In 2022, after the start of the Russian invasion, he joined the defense of the Ukrainian state.

Works

Author of a number of scientific and popular science publications, articles in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine.
Petrashyk's oeuvre includes a gallery of creative portraits of artists, Yakiv Hnizdovskyi,,, Viktor Maryniuk, Heorhii Narbut, Dmytro Paruta, Serhii Riepka, Stepan Riabchenko,, Mykola Storozhenko, Okhrim Sudomora, Oleh Tistol, Oleksandr Khrapachov, and Volodymyr Tsiupko.
Monographs:Mykola Burachek: portret na tli epokhy Avanhardnyi boichukist
His scientific interests include little-known pages of Ukrainian art history, its regional schools, the specifics of genres, and the work of set designers, illustrators, and easel painters.

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