Curated by Inessa Sable

Levko Voedilo

Painter
Ukraine
• 1962–2013
Oil on Canvas
Framed

19.5 x 21 in

$450.00

Levko Voedilo

Painter
Ukraine
• 1962–2013

✦ Internationally Exhibited

✦ Held in Museum Collections

✦ Held in Private Collections Worldwide

✦ Member of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine

✦ Member of the Charunka Podillia Art Association

Master of easel painting, working in landscape, still life, and portrait genres.

Born in 1962, in the village of Bykholtsokhivka, Chernihiv Region, Ukraine.

From 1974 to 1980, he studied at the Taras Shevchenko Republican Art Secondary School. From 1980 to 1987, he attended the Painting Faculty of the Kyiv State Art Institute, where he studied under Oleksandr Lopukhov and Vasyl Zabashta.

Voiedilo combined his artistic practice with teaching. From 2000, he served as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design at the University of Human Development “Ukraine” in Brovary. He lived and worked in the village of Pohreby, Kyiv Region.

Working primarily in easel painting, he created landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. Among his notable works is a series of portraits of Ukrainian kobzars, including Hryhoriy Kozhushko, Ivan Kuchuhura-Kucherenko, Ostap Veresai, Hnat Honcharenko, Khvedor Kholodny, Terentiy Parkhomenko, Hryhoriy Liubystok, Ivan Mazepa, and Tymofiy Bilogradsky.

Member of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine since 1989 and of the Charunka Podillia Art Association since 2004.

Works are held in the Taras Shevchenko National Museum, the Museum of Hetmanship, the Museum of Kobzarism, and in the collections of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, as well as in private collections worldwide.

The artist passed away in 2013.

Participated in national and international exhibitions, including:

2008 — “Ukraine from Trypillia to the Present Day in the Images of Contemporary Artists,” Kyiv

2006 — “Ukraine from Trypillia to the Present Day in the Images of Contemporary Artists,” Kyiv

2005 — Solo Exhibition, Bershad Local History Museum, Bershad

2004 — “Ukraine from Trypillia to the Present Day in the Images of Contemporary Artists,” Kyiv

2004 — Solo Exhibition, Kyiv Humanities Lyceum, Kyiv

2003 — Solo Exhibition, Taras Shevchenko National Preserve, Kaniv

2002 — Solo Exhibition, Arts Development Foundation, Kyiv

2000 — Solo Exhibition, Gallery of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv

1998 — Exhibition of Contemporary Sacred Art marking the 100th Anniversary of Patriarch Mstyslav, Kyiv

1998 — All-Ukrainian Painting Triennial, Kyiv