Dyachenko Oleksandr
Born in 1956 in Kyiv.
From 1967-1974 he studied at the Taras Shevchenko Republican Art High School.
In 1979, he graduated from the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
Since 1987, he became a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
Since 1989, he has been actively participating in domestic and foreign sculpture symposiums.
In 1991, he received the 1st prize in the nomination Sculpture at the International Renaissance Festival.
In 1992, he received the 1st prize at the sculptural plein air for the work “Return of the Prodigal Son”.
2005 – joins the All-Ukrainian Triennial of Sculpture in Kyiv.
2009 – became a laureate and prize-winner of the International Competition for the best project of the monument to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Washington, USA.
In 2009-2012, he joined the Great Sculpture Salon at the Ukrainian House. In 2009, he received the award for the best composition at the salon.
In 2013, he participated in the project “FINE ART UKRAINE” at the Mystetskyi Arsenal, headed by Nataliia Zabolotna.
Oleksandr Diachenko’s sculptures are kept in Khmelnytskyi, Zaporizhzhia, Cherkasy Regional Art Museums, Lviv National Art Gallery named after Borys Voznytskyi and private collections in the Netherlands, Germany and Croatia. The sculptor’s solo exhibitions were held in the leading galleries of the capital.
Oleksandr Dyachenko’s works are a force of calm and self-absorption, a monumental purity and an essence devoid of all superfluous. The sculptor deliberately concentrates the energy of the object in one point to enhance its effect. Simple shapes and laconic lines tend to be universal, the understanding of which does not require any further explanation, only the openness of the viewer.
Currently, the artist’s works of several series are exhibited at Art Ukraine Gallery.
