Vasiliy Sad
Vasiliy (Vasily) Sad (born in 1948) is a Ukrainian abstract painter. He has been an active member "apartment exhibitions" in Odessa, which defended alternative forms of art against the Socialist Realism endorsed by the Soviet Union. Early artistic career. Born in the Velyki Telkovychi village (Rivne oblast) in Ukraine in 1948, Vasiliy Sad moved to Odessa where he then graduated from the Grekov College of Arts in 1977. Shortly after his graduation he joined the "Mamai" group, a collective of non-conformist abstract painters named after Ukraine's national hero. From the early 1970s, the members of the  group took an active part in the dissident Odessa Group. They displayed their art on the occasion of illegal "apartment exhibitions" in Odessa and Moscow, as they championed Soviet Nonconformist Art in the Ukraine. Collections and Exhibitions. Works by Vasily Sad are in art collections of the National Art Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine); the Museum of Modern Art (Kyiv, Ukraine); the Khmelnitsky Museum of Modern Ukrainian art, Odessa Museum of Modern Art , the Odessa Museum of Eastern and Western Art and international art collections in America, Canada, the UK, Italy, Monaco, UAE, Russia and Ukraine. Works by Vasily Sad have been  sold at Phillips auction house, MacDougalls's Auction , Zurich International Contemporary Art Fair (Switzerland), Edinburgh Art Fair (Scotland) and Indian Art Summit (Delhi). In the 1970s Odessa nonconformist artists among whom was Vasily Sad took an active part in the unofficial, so called “apartment exhibitions”.