Mykola Storozhenko

He was a professor and department head at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kyiv for several decades.

Mykola Storozhenko studied at National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture. Mykola Danchenko, Alex And and Zjydel Serhij Petrovytsj are recorded as having studied under Mykola Storozhenko. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. Employment is recorded with National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture. Distinctions recorded are Shevchenko National Prize, People's Painter of Ukraine and Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class.

• Name — Mykola Storozhenko • Native Name — Микола Стороженко • Honorific Suffix — People's Artist of Ukraine • Born — 24 September 1928 • Birthplace — Viazove, Konotop Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine • Died — 15 April 2015 • Place of death — Kyiv, Ukraine • Education — Odessa State Art College, Kyiv State Institute of Arts • Occupation — Painter, writer, academic • Awards — Shevchenko National Prize

Storozhenko was born on 24 September 1928, in the village of Viazove, Konotop District, in what was then the Soviet Union. In 1945, after completing his 7th year of school, Storozhenko entered Odessa State Art College where his teachers included M. A. Sheliuto [uk], and L. Y. Muchnyk [uk],. After graduating in 1950, he entered the Kyiv State Institute of Arts (now National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture.) His teachers were Tetyana Yablonska, M. A. Sharonov, and S. O. Hryhoriev, all of whom are recognised as outstanding Ukrainian painters. While studying in the institute, in 1953–1954, Storozhenko visited Kazakhstan and Altai and created more than eight hundred sketches of farmers in those areas. Upon completion of his studies at the institute in 1956, Storozhenko wrote a thesis entitled "The First Shoots". In 1957, this work was exhibited at the 6th International Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow; Storozhenko was a participant in the festival's international fine arts studio.

Upon graduating from the institute, Storozhenko started working on a new technology of mosaic, hot and cold encaustic, and tested the new approaches to the color circle and monotype making. He created works such as "Kyiv Mohyla Academy of the 17th—18th centuries" (Kyiv, Feofania), mosaic "Scythian Ukraine: Hellas of the Steppes" (Gilea Hotel, Kherson region), mosaic "Brightened with the Light" (Kyiv), hot encaustic, "The Trinity murals in the cupola of St. Mykola Prytyska Church (Kyiv), cold encaustic and others. From 1974, Storozhenko taught at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture holding professor office at the Subfaculty of Painting and Composition. In 1994, he was made the head of the Studio of Painting and Iconographic Art and of the Department of Training at the same academy.

• "Light from Darkness" at the National Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv; • "Birch Tree" in Sevastopol; • "Fata Morgana" in Chernihiv; • "Shevchenko" in Yahotyn; • illustrations for works by T. Shevchenko in Kaniv; • "Girl in Pink" in Moscow. • "Chuhaister", Canada; • "Ukrainian Folk Tales", "Images of Virgin Land Tillers", De Sanctis, Italy; • "The Son of the God", "The Battle", "The Cap", Amazonia, collection of H. Voskobiynyk, the USA; • "Orpheus and Eurydice", "Sacrifice", "Honta", private collections in the USA; • "The Hutsul", Croatia.

• "The Fairy Tale: A Winged Reality", Detskaya Literatura magazine, Moscow, 1984; • "Truthful Sketchy Thoughts on the Creative Work of A. Marchuk", Kraków, 2001; • essay reflections and preface to "Kobzar" by T. Shevchenko "I Can Read Logos in His Look", Kyiv: Dnipro Publishers, 2004; • "Creative Work is Independent of Earthly Blessings", in "I. Sharov, 100-Contemporaries: Reflections on Ukraine", Kyiv, 2002; • "Thoughts Beneath the Vault", Mystetski Obrii anthology, issue 1, 2002, Kyiv,

• 1956 – The First Shoots (The Agronomist). The 5tn All-union exhibition of diploma works. Moscow. • 1957 – Amateur Art, The First Shoots. The 6 World Festival of Youth and Students. Moscow. Participant in an international fine-arts studio. Moscow. • 1958 – After Work. All-Union exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the VLKSM (Komsomol). Moscow. • 1961 – Shevchenko and Contemporaries. Art exhibition devoted to the life and activities of T. H. Shevchenko. Kyiv. • 1965 – Republican exhibition "Berizka". Kyiv. • 1965 – All-union exhibition "Beryozka". Moscow. • 1969 – For the Earth. The 1st exhibition of monumental decorative art. Kyiv. • 1975 – Anaconda by H. Quiroga. International book exhibition. Moscow. • 1976 – Fortress by L Brazov, Anaconda by H.Quiroga. Ukrainian Soviet books for children. Prague. • 1977 – Kyiv-Mohyla Academy of the 17th-18th centuries. Republican exhibition. Kyiv. • 1977 – Bulgarian Folk Tales. Republican exhibition-contest: Art of designing books for children and youth. Kyiv. • 1979 – Bulgarian Folk Tales. The 12th international exhibition-contest: "Best Foreign Publications of Bulgarian Authors." Sofia, Bulgaria. • 1980 – Fata Morgana by M. Kotsiubynsky. Republican art exhibition. Kyiv. • 1980 – Amidst the Steppes by P. Myrny. Republican art exhibition "The Artist and the Book". Kyiv. • 1981 – Amidst the Steppes by P. Myrny. International exhibition. "Days of Ukrainian Culture". Leipzig. • 1983 – Sonnets by I. Franko. The 4th republican exhibition "The Artist and the Book". Kyiv. • 1985 – Brightenet with the Light. Art exhibition "The Artist and the City". Poland. • 1988 – Personal exhibition. Kyiv. • 1989 – Ukrainian Folk Tales, Fortress by L. Brazov. "Ukrainian Books for Children", Prague. • 1990 – Ukrainian Folk Tales. "Synergos-1", University Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada. • 1990 – Ukrainian Folk Tales. Biennale. "International Exhibition of Children's Books Artists". Seoul, Korea. • 1993 – 5000-4000 B.C., The World of Trypillia. "Ukraine and Images". New York. • 1994 – Wife's Portrait. "Svitovyd", gallery of the Artists' League of Ukraine. Kyiv. • 1995 – "The Master and His Pupils". Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Art gallery. Kyiv. • 1996 – "From School to Temple". Kyiv. • 2000 – "Images in Religious Culture". "Studio of Painting and Iconographic Art". Philharmonic Society. Kyiv. • 2004 – Personal exhibition. National Art Museum of Ukraine. Kyiv. • 2004 – Kobzar, Symbols of Prychornomorya. Consulate General, Embassy of Ukraine in the • United States, gallery of the Ukrainian Institute of America. New York, Washington, DC. Annual exhibitions at the exhibition hall of the Artists' League of Ukraine and the Lavra Gallery; exhibitions by the Academy of Arts of Ukraine in Kyiv and Vinnytsia.