About the artist

Yuriy Vakulenko (1957, Nizhny Tagil; based in Kyiv)
Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. General Director of the National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery". Associate Professor of the Department of NACCCI, Member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites.

Born in 1957, Nizhny Tagil. Lives and works in Kyiv.
In 1977, Yuriy graduated from the A. Azimzade Azerbaijan Art School.
From 1980 to 1986, he studied at the Kyiv State Art Institute (the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture), his specialization was art restoring, under the direction of V. Budnikov and O. Kiselyov.
In 1988, he established the creative group "39.2°".
Since 1986, he has been actively exhibiting.
From 1993 to 2004, he headed the Center for Restoration and Examination of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical Cultural Reserve.

Since 2004, he has been the General Director of the National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery". Associate Professor of Expertise of the National Academy of Management of Culture and Arts, a full member of the International Committee of Museums ICOM UNESCO and the International Council for the Preservation of Monuments and Sites ICOMOS.
Secretary of the Supervisory Board of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Member of the Supervisory Board of the National Academy of Management of Culture and Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

The artist's works are in the museum collections of the Kiev-Pechersk Reserve, the National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery", the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Odesa Art Museum, as well as in large private collections in Ukraine, Israel, USA.

Solo exhibitions were held in Poland, Hungary, Italy, France, Luxembourg and Spain and others.