Vasyl Bazhay is one of the most expressive Ukrainian masters of picturesque plastic arts, classic author in a field of installation, performanses and ready-made objects. His paintings are full of wealth and beauty of colour, variety and content-richness of formal decisions. They affect and activate human senses of perception, compelling to think. Vasyl Bazhay’s works are in museums of Lviv, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, as well as in galleries and private collections of Ukraine, Belgium, USA. Artist was born in 1950. He is a member of Lviv Union of Ukrainian artists since 1991. And he is a member of its board since 1996. In 1998 he headed the section of conceptual art of Lviv Union of artists. He lives and works in Lviv.
Education:
1979 – graduated from the Lviv Academy of Arts.
Selected exhibitions:
2009 Project "Paganini" Bottega gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2009 Painting, Institute of Ukrainian Modern Art, New York, USA
2008 Performance “Dialogue”, International festival of performance, Lviv, Ukraine
2003 “Space, light, structure, material”, Institute of Modern Ukrainian Art, Chicago, Ukraine
2002 “Areality”, personal exhibition, National museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
1999 Exhibition “Labyrinth”, Centre of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
1996 Action-performance “Macbeth”, gallery “Al Hanagar”, Cairo, Egypt
