Yuriy Smolsky

YURIY SMOLSKY
was born in 1976 in Lviv, Ukraine.
Education:
1992 – 1996 – Lviv College of Decorative and Applied Art named after I. Trush.
1996 – 2002 – Lviv National Academy of Arts, Department of Monumental Painting.
2001 – 2003 – Lecturer in Drawing and Anatomic Drawing at the Lviv College of Decorative and Applied Art named after I. Trush.
2003 – 2006 – Lecturer in Drawing and Painting at the Ukrainian Academy of Design.
Since 2003 – Lecturer in Drawing, Department of Graphic Design, Lviv National Academy of Arts.
Since 2003 – the judge of the Annual All-Ukrainian Academic Drawing Competition the "Silver stroke" (Lugansk) .
Personal interest:
Architecture, Monumental and Classic Painting, Academic Drawing.

1997 – participated in a festival "The Days of Galychyna in France". An exhibition of painting in Angers, Montreux, Bopro.
2001 – participated in an Academic Drawing Competition between students of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv academies of arts.
2002 – participated in an exhibition of diploma projects of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv academies of arts.(Lviv)
2007 - participated in an exhibition of Paintings of Lecturers of the Department of Graphic Design, sanctified to the 10year of the department. (Lviv)
2007 - participated in an artistic project "Man: the phenomenon and problem" of lecturers and graduating students of Department of the Monumental Painting, Lviv National Academy of Arts. (Lviv)
2010 - participated in an artistic project of lecturers of Department of Graphic Design «Assemblage 1», «Assemblage 2», «Assemblage 3». (Lviv)
2010 - participated in an artistic project «The Beauty and Drama of the Human Body» of lecturers and graduating students of Department of the Monumental Painting, Lviv National Academy of Arts. (Lviv)
2011 - participated in the "Art School Ambassadors" project. (Hangzhou, China)
2011 - participated in the international art plein air in Banja Luka. (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2012 - "Premonition" Personal exhibition (Lviv, ICONART)
2012 - participated in the international project "Obok siebie... na papierze bez granic". (Lublin, Poland)
2013 - participated in the project "Halychyna" within the framework of cooperation with the Union of Ukrainians in Great Britain. (London, England)
2014 - Paintings of St. Michael's Church in the village of Pechenizhyn.
2015 - participated in the project "Iconart: Visions of a World Unseen". (New York, USA)
2016 - participated in the "Collage" project by teachers of the graphic design department (Lviv National Art Gallery named after B.G. Vozyntskyi)
2016 - participated in the (De)(Re)Construction project (Wrocław)
2016 - participated in a painting exhibition in Rome, on the occasion of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of LNAM, (Gallery "Saint Sophia").
2017 - participated in the exhibition of artworks of the Lviv Watercolor School, as part of the Lviv Watercolor Week Workshop international symposium (Lviv, LNN Library of Ukraine named after V. Stefanyk).
2019 - participated in the art project "12+1" of teachers and students of the department of monumental painting of the National Academy of Art. (Lviv, PM gallery).
2019 - participated in the international artistic plein air of the Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts. Chongqing, China. (Artistic activities, Sketching and Creation: Huguang Guild Hall of Chongqing, Li Xiang Lake, Wulong Lanba, Dazu Rock Carvings - Eye of the World Discovery of Chongqing, 18-24.10.2019, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China.)
2020 - participated in the "Anticipation+Immunity" project. (Korsak's Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art. Lutsk.)
2021 - VIVAT Academia! Exhibition of works by teachers of the Lviv National Academy of Arts. The National Museum in Lviv named after A. Sheptytskyi. Lviv.

About me:
I try to work in different painting techniques and genres. I prefer the classic approach to creating forms without undue emotion. For me the classic - it's all that ended at the times of Modernism. Sacral themes in painting induce not only to react to the surrounding world but also to offer some answers. I’m trying to find my own theme and form in art.