Ivan Protsiv

Ivan Protsiv was born in 1958 in the village of Kniazholuka, Ivano-Frankivsk region. He graduated from the Lviv Art School named after I. Trush (1977), Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (1984) – Faculty of Interior and Furniture Design. Since 1986 he has been participating in exhibitions. Participant of regional, national and international exhibitions. Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1992. “Honored Artist of Ukraine since 2008.
Author of more than 20 personal and participant of more than 150 exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad.

Personal exhibitions:
1990 “Colors of Ukraine” Toronto, Canada
1991 Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts, Lviv, Ukraine
1994 “…Both Trees and People…”, Toronto, Canada
1996 Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, Ukraine
1997 Gothic Hall Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
– P.Tychyna Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
1998 Lada Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2003 “ART SHOW”, Toronto, Canada
2006 National Museum in Lviv named after A. Sheptytsky, Ukraine
2007 National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv
– Hotel “Opera”, Lviv, Ukraine
2009 Gallery “Green Couch”, Lviv, Ukraine
2010 “Women of the World”, National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv
2011 Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, Ukraine
2012 “What is in your name…”, Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts, Lviv, Ukraine
– “Christmas Meetings”, Vedmezha Tower, Ukraine
2013 Museum “Boykivshchyna” of Tetyana and Omelyan Antonovych, Dolyna, Ukraine
2014 “The Fifth Time of the Year”, Green Couch Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2016 portrait exhibition “Blooming Ukraine”, T. Mironova Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
– “In the Family Circle”, Museum “Boikivshchyna” of Tetyana and Omelian Antonovych, Dolyna, Ukraine
2018 Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine
2021 “Good News”, Veles Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
2022 “The Road Home”, Green Couch Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
Associate Professor of the Department of Academic Painting at the Lviv National Academy of Arts since 2011.
He is engaged in easel graphics, painting, icon painting (design and execution of murals and icons of St. Anne’s Church in Lviv, and the Church of the Ascension of the Holy Ghost in the monastery of the Basilian Fathers in Zolochiv). A number of works are the property of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. The works are kept in state museums, galleries and private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Canada, the USA, France, Spain, England, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands, China, etc.