About the artist

Tiberiy Szilvashi (1947, Mukachevo)Academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.
Born 1947 in Mukachevo, Zakarpattya region. Lives and works in Kyiv.1966 - graduated from Taras Shevchenko State Art School.1972 - graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture.In 1995 Szilvashi was awarded with the "Artist of the Year" title in Ukraine and received a scholarship from Munich Municipality. Artist's curator projects were presented at International Art Festival in Kyiv in 1996 and 1998.
In 2022, he won the Shevchenko National Prize (the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts) and the Grand Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Expert of the Competition for Young Ukrainian Artists, MUHi.
Tiberiy Szilvashi's works are in public and private collections in Munich, Vienna, New Jersey, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Uzhhorod, Kyiv and other cities in Europe and the USA.