Yuri Skorupsky


Yuri Skorupsky or Yurii Skorupskyi is a Ukrainian-American painter, monumentalist. The husband of Erika Komonyi.
Honorary member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, the National Union of Artists of America, the Chicago Artists' Coalition, and the Association of Oil and Acrylic Painters. Founder and president of the Society of Artists "Dolia".
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Biography

Yuri Skorupsky was born on 13 May 1965, in Rava-Ruska, now Lviv Oblast of Ukraine.
In 1984, he graduated from the ; in 1987, from the Moscow State Institute of Culture; in 1991, from the Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts. In 1989, while studying at the above-mentioned university, he and the art group "Dolia" exchanged experience at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
In 1991, he emigrated to the U.S., where he still lives and works in Chicago. He provides financial and creative support to Ukrainian artists.

Creativity

From the late 1980s, he participated in more than 70 collective and 20 solo exhibitions held in Ukraine, Europe and the U.S. Separate international exhibitions in Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salon d'Automne in Paris. He paints landscapes in the style of impressionism.
Among the main works:
  • painting "Field of Flowers", "Winter. Frozen River", "Rhapsody of a Warm Evening. Water Lilies", "Mountains in Winter", "Morning", "Red Cardinal in the Kingdom of the Tree", "Flowers in a Vase", "Field of Golden Wheat, Summer Day", "Winter in Colorado", "Snowy Winter", "Winter in Ukraine", "Thaw", "Winter Landscape", "Loneliness", "Winter in an Old Village in Ukraine", "Poppy Fields";
  • painted the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary of the UGCC ;
  • restored frescoes in the chancel and some wooden carved church utensils for worship, created the scenes "Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane" and "The Resurrection of the Daughters of Joel" for the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago.
Some of his works are kept in the collections of the Ukrainian National Museum and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv, the Andrei Sheptytskyi National Museum in Lviv, the Borys Voznytskyi National Art Gallery in Lviv, the Museum of Fine Arts in Rava-Ruska; in private collections of
George W. Bush, as well as in Ukraine, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The artist's work has been published in the publications "Obrazotvorche Mystetstvo", "American Art Review" and "Southwest Art".

Awards

  • the title "Master – Golden Hands" for his works in artistic wood carving and painting;
  • the artist's name is listed in the Encyclopedic Directory of Outstanding Professionals of the United States, the national American directory "Who is Who".

Individual publications

  • Detroit Biegas Gallery; Show Catalog, 3 November to 13 December 1996
  • Dolya Ukrainian Association of Artists, Western American Tour, Chicago, Show Catalog, 1993
  • Middfest International Magazine, Middletown, Ohio, Show Catalog, 1993
  • Fate/Dolya Arts Exhibition Minneapolis, Madison, Chicago, Show Catalog, 1991–1992
  • Yuri Skorupsky // Art Exhibition: Orizzonti: Ukraine Contemporary Art / Khrystyna Berehovska. — Lviv : Apriori, 2023. — С. 98—99.