About the artist

Victor Sydorenko (1953, Taldykorgan; based in Kyiv)
Academician and President of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.

Born in 1953 in Taldykorgan (Kazakhstan).
1979 - he graduated from the Kharkiv Art and Industry Institute with honours (class of Prof. B. Kosarev, winner of the USSR State Prize).
1981 - he started post-graduate studies at the USSR Academy of Arts creative workshops, supervised by the USSR Academy of Arts academician, the People’s Artist of the USSR, winner of the USSR state prizes Prof. S. Grigoriev. At the same time, Victor worked as an art director of the film The Anatomy of the miracle, director V.Ivanov).
In 2001, he founded and headed the Modern Art Research Institute of Ukrainian Academy of Arts.

Awards
1996, Kyiv, Ukraine. The winner of "Golden section" at Art festival.
2000, Kyiv, Ukraine. The winner of "the Gold Palette» on "Millennium-opening day".
2003, Kyiv, Ukraine. Golden Medal of Ukrainian Academy of Arts.
2005, Magdebourg, Germany. The author of the best project of V International Festival of Arts.

Biennials
2003 “Millstones of time”, the personal project at 50th International exhibition of the modern art in Venice. The author and the curator of the project.
2007 "The poem about an internal sea", the Ukrainian project at 52nd International exhibition of the modern art in Venice. The co-curator.

Collections
National Art Museum of Ukraine
Kharkiv Museum of Fine Arts, Ukraine
Dnipro Art Museum, Ukraine
National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery", Ukraine
Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine
Ismayil Art Gallery, Ukraine
Yale University, School of Art, United States