Yuri Skorupsky

Founder and president of the Society of Artists "Dolia" (1987, Rava-Ruska; 1991, Chicago).

• Name — Yuri Skorupsky • Born — 13 May 1965 • Birthplace — Rava-Ruska, now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine • Education — Ivano-Frankove Art Vocational School, Moscow State Institute of Culture, Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts • Occupation — Painter, monumentalist • Illustration — Yuri Skorupsky by the pond

Yuri Skorupsky was born on 13 May 1965, in Rava-Ruska, now Lviv Oblast of Ukraine. In 1984, he graduated from the Ivano-Frankove Art Vocational School; in 1987, from the Moscow State Institute of Culture; in 1991, from the Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts (teachers: Mykhailo Tkachenko, Petro Kravchenko, Yurii Skandakov). In 1989, while studying at the above-mentioned university, he and the art group "Dolia" exchanged experience at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (USA). In 1991, he emigrated to the U.S., where he still lives and works in Chicago. He provides financial and creative support to Ukrainian artists.

From the late 1980s, he participated in more than 70 collective and 20 solo exhibitions held in Ukraine, Europe and the U.S. Separate international exhibitions in Chicago, New York City (2003, in particular at Art Expo New York), Los Angeles, San Francisco (2002), Salon d'Automne in Paris. He paints landscapes in the style of impressionism. Among the main works: • painting "Field of Flowers" (2003), "Winter. Frozen River" (2004), "Rhapsody of a Warm Evening. Water Lilies" (2005, a gift for the National Museum in Lviv on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its foundation), "Mountains in Winter" (2008), "Morning" (2008), "Red Cardinal in the Kingdom of the Tree", "Flowers in a Vase" (2007), "Field of Golden Wheat, Summer Day" (2008), "Winter in Colorado", "Snowy Winter", "Winter in Ukraine", "Thaw", "Winter Landscape", "Loneliness", "Winter in an Old Village in Ukraine", "Poppy Fields"; • painted the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary of the UGCC (Palos Park, USA); • restored frescoes in the chancel and some wooden carved church utensils for worship, created the scenes "Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane" and "The Resurrection of the Daughters of Joel" for the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago. Some of his works are kept in the collections of the Ukrainian National Museum and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv, the Andrei Sheptytskyi National Museum in Lviv, the Borys Voznytskyi National Art Gallery in Lviv, the Museum of Fine Arts in Rava-Ruska; in private collections of George W. Bush, as well as in Ukraine, Estonia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The artist's work has been published in the publications "Obrazotvorche Mystetstvo", "American Art Review" and "Southwest Art".