Yuriy Musatov


Yuriy Musatov or Yurii Musatov is a Ukrainian ceramic artist. Member of the International Academy of Ceramics, National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
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Biography

Yuriy Musatov was born on 19 October 1981, in Konotop, Sumy Oblast.
Until 1995, he studied at the Konotop Children's Art School. In 2001, he graduated from the, and in 2008, from the Department of Artistic Ceramics of the Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts of the Lviv National Academy of Arts. For some time, he worked in Fuping, China.
He lives and works in Kyiv.

Creativity

From 2004, Musatov has participated in all-Ukrainian and international exhibitions and symposiums. Solo exhibitions have been held in Szydłowiec, Opishnia, Kyiv, Konotop, Sumy, and Kecskemét.
In his works, Musatov uses chamotte, faience, and porcelain masses. In June 2013, at the National Museum-Preserve of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishnia, the ceramist presented Ukraine's tallest five-meter monumental ceramic sculpture "Vezha".
Individual works are preserved in the collections of the Ariana and Avenue de la Paix museums, the Ceramics Museum in Ludwigsburg, the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museum, the National Museum of Slovenia, the Mark Rothko Art Centre, Hannelore Seiffert, Zepter, the Municipal Museum of Aveiro, the Sumy Porcelain Factory Museum, the, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, private collections, and others.
Among important works:
  • Compositions: "Chaynyi ekspres", "Khto ya? Zvidky ya? Kudy ydu?", "U poloni chasu", "Vezhi I i II", "Perysta khmara", "Kill him", "Avtoportret".
  • Series: "Khmara", "Vybuhi", "Galaxy", "My planet", "My Mountain", "Keramichni motanky".

Awards

  • Scholarship holder of the Gaude Polonia program of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland ;
  • First prize of the I International Ceramics Symposium "Art-Wagonette" ;
  • Grand Prix of the II INTERSymposium of Ceramics in Opishnia ;
  • First prize of the III INTERSymposium of Ceramics in Opishnia ;
  • Second prize of the IV National Exhibition-Competition of Artistic Ceramics "KeramPIK" in Opishnia ;
  • I and II prizes of the V INTERSymposium of Ceramics in Opishnia.