Bilyk Mykola

Born on 20 May 1953, in Toporivtsi village, now Chernivtsi region.

During 1968-1972 he studied at the Vizhnytsia School of Applied Arts.

In 1980, he graduated from the Lviv Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts, specialising in decorative art.

During 1980-1990, he worked as a sculptor in the creative and production association “Artist”.

In 1983, he joined the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

Since 1994, he has been a teacher of sculpture at the Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design.

In 1996, he was awarded the title of Honoured Artist of Ukraine. In 2017 – People’s Artist of Ukraine.

He created many outstanding works, including the monument to Yaroslav the Wise (1997) and the garden sculpture “Ukrainian scouts” (2021) in Kyiv, the monument to Taras Shevchenko in Ivano-Frankivsk region (1998), Volodymyr Sviatoslavych, Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine in Cherkasy (2016), a bust of Taras Shevchenko in Havana, Cuba (1995), “Guernica of Ukraine” in Baturyn (2008).

Also, in 1995, he took part in the restoration of sculptures in Kyiv: Princess Olha, Andrew the First-Called, Cyril and Methodius.

He had numerous personal exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad – in the gallery “Slavutych”, Kyiv (1994), “Mykola’s House”, Kyiv (1995), “Kolta”, Kyiv (2001), “Ukrainian House”, Kyiv (2003), the Embassy of Ukraine in the USA, Washington (2004), the Ukrainian National Museum, USA, Chicago (2004; 2007), Triptych Gallery, Kyiv (2006; 2014), Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyiv (2011), Museum “Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine”, Kyiv (2014), NAMU, Kyiv (2018).

The author’s works are kept in the collections of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, museums of Lviv, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, as well as in Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, the USA, and France.

Currently, the works of several series of the sculptor are exhibited at the Art Ukraine Gallery.