The Ukrainian Academy of Art A Brief History

Oleh Hryshchenko is an artist and designer from Kyiv. Originally from Zhytomyr, Hryshchenko studied painting at the Kosiv College of Applied and Decorative Arts and later received his master's degree at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (formerly the Ukrainian Academy of the Arts). He teaches graphic design and is a co-founder of the artists' collective VAL. Olena Kashuba-Volvach holds a degree in art history and works as a senior researcher for the Modern Art Research Institute at the National Academy of the Arts of Ukraine. She is a specialist in modernism and has recently published on Davyd (David) Burliuk and two early-20th century exhibitions held in Kyiv, Lanka (Link) and Kiltste (Ring). Olena Staranchuk lives and works in Kyiv. She teaches on the design faculty at the Kyiv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Art. In 2013 she was in charge of the Third Ukrainian Student Poster Biennale. Later that year she was a recipient of the Gaude Polonia fellowship awarded by the Polish Ministry of Culture. She is a co-founder of the artists' collective VAL.