# Alexander Voytovych

Alexander (Oleksandr) Voytovych (Ukrainian: Олександр Войтович; born 1971 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian contemporary artist. Figurative painting characterizes the majority of his work, and portrait and naked model painting are two main themes of his art.

## Biography

Alexander Voytovych was educated at Lviv Decorative and Applied Art College named after Ivan Trush and the Lviv National Academy of Arts.

## Exhibitions

* 1994 "One for all", National Museum in L'viv, Ukraine
* 1995-1996 International Plein Airs, Budapest
* 1997-2000 Uzhgorod Picture Gallery, Ukraine, Uzhhorod
* 1998 "Art at the turn of millennia", Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts NAS of Ukraine, L'viv<
* 1999 The first author's project "Inspiratio" of art group "Polychrome" - visual penetration into the past and transformation in contemporary secret. The project generated considerable excitement and mixed reviews, Art-Cultural Center "Dzyga"
* 2000 Laureate of "Autumn salon" diptych by "objective reality" in collaboration with Ivanka Voytovych, L'viv Palace of Arts, Ukraine
* 2000 Lviv's portrait exhibition "Persona", L'viv Palace of Arts, Ukraine
* 2001 One-man exhibition "Capriccio…" — grotesque eroticism against Galician conservatism, gallery "Gerdan", Lviv
* 2002-2004 Exhibitions in Spain
** Charity Project "Originales Solidarios", Barcelona-Valencia, Spain
** One-man exhibition, La Galeria de Soledad Arroyo Gill, Toledo, Spain
** Centro Municipal de las Artes de Alcorcon, Madrid
** Galeria Nova Rua, Lugo
** I PREMIO INTERNACIONAL de ARTES PLASTICAS "Aires de Cordoba", a prize drawing and One-man exhibition in the gallery "Aires de Cordoba", Córdoba, Spain
* 2003 One-man exhibition "Women’s whims", Budapest, Hungary
* 2003 "Absinthe and Absence - a sweet Taste of Decadence" Art-Cultural Center "Soviart", Kyiv, Ukraine
* 2003-2006 Exhibitions in Poland
** "Lemkowskie Jeruzalem", Gorlice — Kraków — Wrocław
** International Triennial of Painting "Silver Square", Przemyśl
** "Lwowskie klimaty", gallery BWA, Kielce
* 2004 Erotic Art Exhibition "Apple from Eva", gallery "Uzhgorod", Uzhgorod, Ukraine
** Minoritenkloster, Tulln, Austria
* 2005 PREMIO WEB COLOR 2005, award in the category painting, gallery "Kleinos", Italy
** Project Gallery Antiquity "Three crowns", Lviv — Kyiv
* 2006 Together with the poet Alexander Gavrosh edition of poetry collection "A BODY OF AN ARCHERESS", is an attempt to recreate a myth about a perfect Woman with man's hands – hands of a poet Alexander Gavrosh and an artist Alexander Voytovych
* 2006-2009 A series of personal art projects
** "Allegory on high heels", gallery "Green sofa", Lviv
** "ECSTASY Exiting daily routine"— sacrality appeal to the idea that the body is experiencing ecstasy and attempt to understand the nature of ecstasy, Museum of ideas, Lviv
** " Salome is not only…Kyiv Academic Young Theatre
** "Noble Entertaining In Ten Portraits" - find the perfect female image through the noble identity, Museum of ideas, Lviv
** "Things from Lviv", gallery "Silver Bells", Kyiv
* 2007-2008 The idea and organization of erotic art projects "Taming Eros" - male and female format, gallery "Green Sofa", Lviv
** "Grotesque in modern art", Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts NAS of Ukraine, L'viv
** "My Lviv", Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv
** "Art — Kyiv", Ukrainian House, Kyiv
* 2009 Open their own gallery "Art Atelier Voytovych" Lviv presenting collections of paintings, drawings and decors from Ivanka and Alexander Voytovych
** Exhibition of Contemporary Ukrainian Art Bucharest, Embassy of Ukraine, Romania
** "НюАнс", L'viv Palace of Arts, Ukraine
* 2009-2010 International Plein Airs in Hungary, Balatonföldvár and Vac
* 2010 One-man exhibitions
** "КаvART", "Svit kavy", Lviv
** "A Mysterious Portrait", Art Atelier Voytovych, Lviv