Mykola Dmitrukh

• Name — Mykola Dmitrukh • Born — 20 June 1954 • Birthplace — Krasnopillia, Mykolaiv Oblast (now Ukraine) • Education — Vyzhnytsia College of Arts and Design • Occupation — Graphic artist and master of decorative art • Awards — Merited Painter of Ukraine

Mykola Dmitrukh was born on 20 June 1954, in Krasnopillia, now part of the Berezanka Hromada in the Mykolaiv Raion of Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine. In 1979, he graduated from the Vyzhnytsia College of Arts and Design, where his teachers included S. Varkhola, V. Zhavoronkov, and V. Kurov. From then, he has been active at the Ternopil Art and Production Combine, and from 1993, he has been a teacher at the Ternopil Children's Art School No. 1.

He began participating in all-Ukrainian and international exhibitions in 1979. His solo exhibitions have been held in Ternopil (2001), Jarosław (2002), Lubaczów (2002, 2004–2005), and Rzeszów (2005). He works in the fields of easel and book graphics, including illustrations, posters, ex-libris, caricatures, drawings, and cartoons. His works are held in the collections of the Ternopil Museum of Local Lore, art museums in Ternopil, Mykolaiv, and Taiwan, the Lviv Palace of Arts, the Museum in Lubaczów, the House of Satire and Humor in Gabrovo (Bulgaria), the Museum of Caricature in Istanbul, the International Ex-Libris Center in Sint-Niklaas (Belgium), the Piranha Satire Gallery (Jarosław, Poland), the Ex-Libris Association (China), and private collections in Ukraine and abroad. In his works, lines and forms are concise, and the compositions are conventional and associative. He masterfully combines the abstract with the real, while color and texture create a sense of grandeur and monumentality. In his graphic art, he maintains this concise style, but with a gentle and soft humor. In 2004, M. Dmitrukh set a world record for drawing cartoons at the International Art Plein Air "Morka" (Poland). His students include Pavlo Shachko. Among his important works are: • The series of satirical drawings "Bez nazvy" (1979–1985); "Vesna 33-ho roku", "Bilyi svit" (both 1989), "Nad richkoiu v chistim poli", "Pam'iat" (both 1990), "Sicha" (1991), "Ternopilskyi zamok" (1995), "Ternopil. Tserkva Rizdva Khrystovoho" (1998), "Seredyna lita" (2002), "Melodiia stepu" (2003), "Pryborkanyi step" (2004), "Skifiia" (2006); • The series: "Lehendy Ternopilshchyny" (1992–1995), "Skifiia" (1995–1999), "Kostely Polshchi" (1995–2000). • Book design for "Krapelyny" and "Krapelyny-2" by B. Bastiuk and B. Melnychuk (1999).