Olena Pryduvalova

Biography:
Born in 1960 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
In 1986 she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (faculty of Painting, Department of Theatre Stage Design, Studio D.Leader).
Member of the National Ukrainian Artists’ Union.
Since 2012, Pryduvalova has been a founding member of the Blue October (“Syniy Zhovten’ “) creative team.
Living and working in Kyiv.

Awards
1998 Great Ukrainian Women Artists ’98, 1st Prize Winner. Kyiv, Ukraine
1996 Great Ukrainian Women Artists ’96, Honorary Mention. Kyiv, Ukraine

Solo exhibitions (selected):

2023
Vyr. Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, Lviv

2020
Zir. Olena Pryduvalova & Oleksii Apollonov. “Khlibnia” Gallery. National Sanctuary “Sophia of Kyiv” (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2019
Midtown-Suburbs. White World Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine) Olena Pryduvalova and Oksana Tsiupa

2018
Two of me. “Maister” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2017
Holidays and Workdays. Kyiv History Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Memories of the Crimea. Institut français d’Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2016
Kray. Centre Culturel et d’Information de l’Ambassade d’Ukraine (Paris, France)
Movement (Rukh). Art Museum of Prykarpattia (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine)
Kray. Educatorium (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2015
Autumn’s Light. “Kalita Art Club” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Live Life to the Fullest! “Triptych Art” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2014
Being beneath Olsztyn Sky. Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2012
Variable Interiors. “Triptych Art” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Holidays and Workdays. “Maisternia” Gallery, National Ukrainian Artists’ Union (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Group Exhibitions (selected):
2024
The Samarkand Epic. “Kyiv Picture Gallery” National Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Eyes of Flowers. National Museum of Decorative Arts of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2023
Premonition of Victory. National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
2022
Fortress. Artistic Walls of Kyiv. Museum of the Ukrainian Diaspora (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Year of Anxiety. Taras Shevchenko National Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2020
Wall to Wall. White World Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2019
Cultural Complexity. “Saphira and Ventura” Gallery (New York, USA)
Framing Reality. “Saphira and Ventura” Gallery (New York, USA)

2017
Meeting. “Khudhraf” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
White World. Skifia. “White World” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
March. “Maister” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2016
November. “Maister” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Art Convergence. Cultural Village (Doha, Qatar)
Ukrainian Art Month. Abu Dhabi Art Hub (Abu-Dhabi, UAE)
Brothers. Dedication to Alfons and Mieczyslaw Kulakowski. Taras Shevchenko National Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Crimean Album. Autonomus. Crimean House (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Anno Domini – 2015. “Dzyga” Gallery (Lviv, Ukraine)

2015
Genius Loci. National Museum “Kyiv Picture Gallery” (Kyiv Russian Art Museum) (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Expression of Silence. Taras Shevchenko National Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2014
Anno Domini – 2014. “Nasha” Gallery (Sumy, Ukraine)
De Rerum Natura. “KalytaArtClub” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Ukrainian Lanscape. Mystetskyi arsenal (Kyiv, Ukraine)
All truth about Crimea. Plein air Chronicles. “Khlibnia” Gallery. National Sanctuary “Sophia of Kyiv” (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Artist as a Model. “KalytaArtClub” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2013
Yin. “M17” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Day Care Facility. Kyiv Plein air result exhibition. Kyiv Russian Art Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Being beneath Olsztyn Sky. “KalytaArtClub” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Hendrick Terbrugghen, Modern Vision. Chernihiv Hryhoriy Halahan Regional Art Museum (Chernihiv, Ukraine)
Being beneath Olsztyn Sky. “Sova” Gallery (Olsztyn, Poland)
Art Studio, Voluiky. Arts Palace (Lviv, Ukraine)

2012
Kniazha Mount. Plein air in Kaniv. “KalytaArtClub” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Art-Plotinos. Kyiv Contemporary Ukrainian Art Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine)
“Velykyi Pereviz” Residence. “Lavra” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Public Collections (selected):
Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine)
Museum of Ukrainian Painting (Dnipro, Ukraine)
Art Museum of Prykarpattia (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine)
Abu Dhabi Art Hub (Abu-Dhabi, UAE)
National Museum “Kyiv Picture Gallery” (Kyiv Russian Art Museum) (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Zaporizhzhia Arts Museum
Kherson O.Shovkunenko Regional Art Museum
Kyiv Contemporary Art Museum
Museum of Women Artists (Washington DC, USA)
Museum of Contemporary Russian Art (France)
The University of Chicago (USA)
Paletta Gallery (Germany)
Ochre Gallery (Greece)
Marshalovska Gallery (Olsztyn, Poland)
“Lavra” Municipal Art Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Dukat Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Kolo Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Triptych Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Ra Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Tadzio Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
“KalytaArtClub” Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
G.Soros Contemporary Art Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Private Collections:
Condoleezza Rice
Kateryna Yushchenko
Miriam Keiser
Eleanor Valentine
Dzvinka Kryshtalovych
Constance Uzwyshyn
Frantishek Yanoukh
Grazyna Strikovska
Eurasia Foundation (USA)
Imсa Press Publishers (France)
Ukrainian Embassy in France
Mitsubishi Co. Tokyo City Hall (Japan)
Squire, Sanders & Dempsy, UMC (Great Britain)
Business Centre Regina L&L (Ukraine)
Bank Azhio (Ukraine)
Private collections in the USA, Canada, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Greece, Scotland, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, France, Spain, Netherlands, Israel, Belgium, South Korea, Russia, Japan and Ukraine.

«The composition is original; the brushstrokes are robust and even a little wild, but
never uncontrolled; the colours are bright, fresh and never dull or common; the
painting is very decorative, but much more than that. Her art is based on tradition
but has a contemporary approach. The quality is very consistent. She also always
succeeds in reconciling all contradictions mentioned above».
Ineke Shwartz (Dutch art critic)

Artist’s Statement:
My main theme is Kyiv – “portraits” of streets, buildings, arches, corners, caryatides.
My vision comes from colour (the maximum intensity of colour) and the outcome of
my work should bring the viewer happiness and tranquility.