Erika Komonyi

• Name — Erika Komonyi • Born — 13 November 1965 • Birthplace — Kholmok, now Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine • Education — Uzhhorod College of Applied Arts, Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts • Occupation — Painter, ceramist, designer

Born on 10 November 1965 in the Kholmok, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast (now Ukraine). In 1985, she graduated from the Uzhhorod Art School; the ceramics department of the Uzhhorod College of Applied Arts; and in 1991, the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, where she studied under Oleksandr Voloshenko, Bohdan Korzh, and Ivan Mykytiuk. She honed her skills in creating black-glazed smoked ceramics under István Fozekos (Hungary) and Ukrainian masters from the village of Havarechchyna in the Lviv Oblast. In 1991, she and her husband Yuri Skorupsky emigrated to the United States, settling in Chicago. From 1992, she worked as an artist and designer for Yolanda Lorente's company in Chicago for 25 years.

She works in the fields of painting, graphic art, and artistic ceramics. She designs fabrics and clothing (in particular, she created dresses for Michael Jackson's mother Katherine, Lithuanian First Lady Alma Adamkienė, and a Chicago Opera singer). She has participated in group and solo exhibitions. Among his works: • ceramic vases (1990); • graphics: "City" (1991), "Lovers" (1992, cardboard, acrylic), "Spirit of the Evening City", "City", "Guardian Angel" (all 1993), "Love" (1994). Some of the artist's works are exhibited at the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago, the Transcarpathian Art Museum of Uzhhorod in Uzhhorod, and in private collections.