Mukiy Vladimir - Ukrainian artist

MUKIY Vladimir

Born on February 22, 1953.

From 1969 to 1970 studied at an art school (teacher Kurilenko).

From 1970 to 1976 - Crimean Art School named after Samokish, teachers: Sobol, Shipov, Lebenok, Sizikov.

From 1971 to 1973 - served in the army.

Since 1976 he worked in an industrial art and design plant. For his design work he received a medal of the All-Union Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (Kyiv) and a second-degree diploma (1992).

From 1987 to 1992 he was a member of the informal association "Experiment" (modernism), which later grew into the "Crimean Society of Contemporary Art" and was created as a protest against the painting trends existing in the Union of Artists of the USSR.

He was under KGB control all the time, and was repeatedly subjected to "conversations" on the topic "... why are you shaking the foundations of our state?".

As a realist painter, he exhibited at several regional (Simferopol), republican (Kyiv), and international youth exhibitions in Bulgaria (1988). Personal exhibitions in Simferopol, Lvov, Moscow, Dnepropetrovsk.

Works in the direction of surrealism, symbolism, neorealism, hyperrealism. The artist is keenly interested in issues of architecture, sculpture, literature, psychology, philosophy, etc.

The works of Vladimir Mukiya are in private collections in Ukraine, France, USA, England, Germany, Yugoslavia, Israel, Poland and other countries.