Ivan Marchuk

Ivan Stepanovych Marchuk (Ukrainian: Іван Степанович Марчук) (born May 12, 1936 in Moskalivka) is a contemporary Ukrainian painter.

Ivan Marchuk
Born
Ivan Stepanovych Marchuk

(1936-05-12) May 12, 1936
Village of Moskalivka, Ternopil Region
Nationality Ukrainian
EducationLviv Institute of Applied Art
Known forPainting

Biography

Ivan Marchuk was born in a family of a weaver. After graduating from a seven-year school, he entered the Ivan Trush Lviv School of Applied Arts in the department of decorative painting, where he studied from 1951 to 1956. After serving in the army, he continued his studies at the Department of Ceramics of the Lviv Institute of Applied Arts, graduating in 1965. Later he worked in Kyiv. From 1965 to 1968 he worked at the Institute of Superhard Materials of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and from 1968 to 1984 at the Kyiv Plant of Monumental and Decorative Arts. In 1989 he left USSR and lived in the United States, Canada and Australia.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks which he saw, Marchuk returned to Kyiv. In 1990, his first official exhibition took place in Kyiv - at the State Art Museum of Ukrainian Fine Arts (now the National Art Museum of Ukraine). Not having been valued in the Soviet Union, Marchuk was well accepted in the independent Ukraine obtaining a prestigious T. Shevchenko award in 1997. A museum of Ivan Marchuk is planned to be constructed in Kyiv.

Books

Atlant UMC has published 3 books on the artist's oeuvre. A large monograph titled "Ivan Marchuk" (2004) illustrates all stages of his creative career. The second album deals with the period 1965-2005. The third album was published in the series "Painting" (2008).

For 2013-2016, Fenix published three books by Ivan Marchuk.

Ivan Marchuk Prize

On May 31, 2016, the third session of the Ternopil Regional Council supported the project to launch the annual Ivan Marchuk Regional Award for Gifted Children aged 7 to 15 in the field of fine arts in 2016.

Distinctions and awards
  • 1996 — received the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine
  • March 7, 1997 — became a laureate of the National Prize of Ukraine T.G. Shevchenko
  • 2006 — The International Academy of Contemporary Art in Rome accepted Ivan Marchuk into the ranks of the Golden Guild and elected him an honorary member of the scientific council of the academy
  • October 2007 — included in the British ranking "One Hundred Geniuses of Today" (72nd place)[1]

References
  1. "Top 100 living geniuses". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2020-12-14.

Literature
  • "Virtual Dreams of Ivan Marchuk". Welcome to Ukraine, 4, 1999.
  • Ivan Marchuk: Album-catalogue. — Kyiv: CJSC Atlant UMS, 2004. — 519 p. — ISBN 966-95919-7-X. (in Ukrainian and English)
  • Ivan Marchuk. Creative period 1965–2005: [Album]. — [Kyiv: CJSC Atlant UMS, 2005]. — 28 p. (in Ukrainian and English)
  • Іван Марчук. Дорога додому: Альбом. — К.: ТОВ «Атлант ЮЕмСі», 2008. — [135] с. — ISBN 978-966-8968-22-8. (in Ukrainian and English)
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