Internationally acclaimed painter
Printmaker, illustrator, and lecturer. Works published in New York Times, as well as American and European publications including Kniga/ Moscow and Anaya/ Madrid.
Born in Lviv, Ukraine. Graduated Lviv Polygraphic Institute in Fine Arts, 1971.
Pictures and graphic papers of Yuri Tchary amaze with their plastic orchestration. Combining lines and flatnesses into an image, before penetrating into the subject you enjoy this endless play of fragmentations and interchanges, this richness of the space in plastic events - in a word, all magic of purely artistic making which Tchary certainly masters best of all in the world. And whatever would be portrayed by the master- catharsis is guaranteed by that how it has been done. Fixedness of drawing, another characteristic feature of Tchary's compositions, was a result of unprecedented sensitiveness of the eye to the scales of “not-light” from the fathomless dark to the lightest white. Light colour symphonies of work on the paper testified: Tchary sees, distinguishes and embodies what the ordinary eye doesn’t see, doesn’t distinguish. But the talent for displaying invisible to the world is given to the artist not only in the sphere of eurhythmics. He is granted to make visible form of that innermost weightlessness, which is called human soul.
Awards
1998 Winner International Contest “The Future Contest”, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Dodge Foundation: Fellowship
1996 Ridgewood Manor Association of Arts, NJ in watercolor, for “ Portrait”
1992 Ringwood Manor Association of Arts for “ Herro” (oil painting)
1989 Silber-Medalie, International Buchkunst Ausstellung, Leipzig
1983 Codener Appfel, Biennalle, der 3, Bratislava
Collections
Museum of Modern Art, Koehl, Germany
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Pushkin Museum, Moscow , Russsia
National Museum of Ukranian Art, Lviv
National Museum of Art, Kyiv (Kiev)
Personal Exhibitions
2003 National Museum of Ukrainian Art, "Inko Art", Kiev Ukraine
2002 Embassy Gallery, Soho New York USA
1999 The Fourth International Art Festival "Inko Art", National Cultural Center Kiev Ukraine
1997 Artist Gallery, Ridgewood New Jersey USA
1995 Wayne Gallery, New Jersey USA
1993 Bener Gallery, Washington DC USA
1989 National Museum of Zahente, Warsaw Poland
1988 National Museum of Art, Lviv Ukraine
1986 National Museum of Art, Vilnius Lithuania
Exhibitions
2009 Taganka Theater, Moskow, Russia
2009 Ukranian Bank, Lviv, Ukraine
2009 Ukranian Institute, New York, USA
2003 Queens College, Art Center, New York USA
2002 Embassy Gallery, Soho New York USA
2000 "Art Ecspo", New York USA
1999 Nutro Ezair Gallery, New York USA
1998 "The First International Exhibition, Odessa-98", "Inko Art" , Odessa Ukraine
1998 "Feelings of the Heart" Antragos Gallery, Columbus Ave New York USA
1997 "The Graphic Exhibition", Bonatier Gallery, Piermont USA
1997 "Exhibition of Modern Art", Museum of Western European Art of Pushkin, Moscow Russian
1997 "Watercolor USA", Springfield Museum USA
1997 "International Art- Festival "Inko Art", Kiev Ukraine
1996 Alex gallery, 57 street New York USA
1995 "88 International Independent Exhibition of graphic", Kana Gava Japan
1995 "The Second Fair of Art", "Inko Art", Kiev Ukraine
1994 Gallery of Marcel, "Geltmen American National Exhibition" New Jersey USA
1993 Gallery of Carl Stelvig, "Monopoly of Culture", Soho New York USA
1993 International Moscow Fair, "Art-Mif3", "Inko Art", Moscow USA
1992 "The Artists of Paterson", New Jersey USA
1991 "Exhibition of Ukrainian Art", Center of Ukrainian Art, Chicago USA
1991 International Moscow Fair "Art-Mif2", "Inko Art", Moscow USA
1990 International Biennale of Graphic, Warsaw Poland
1990 "The Art of Friends", National Museum of Art, Stockholm Sweden
1990 "International Exhibition of Book", graphic for children, Tokyo Japan
1989 "Eighteens International Graphics", Lubbyana Yugoslavia
1989 "International Biennale of Graphic", Varna Bulgaria
1989 "International Biennale of Book Graphic", Bolonia Italy
1988 "Exhibition of Soviet Artists", Varezi Museum, Italy
1988 "The First Biennale of Graphic" Geidelberg Museum, Germany
1986 "International Biennale of Graphic", Hawana Cuba
1986 "International Biennale of Graphic", Damask Syria
1986 "Exhibition of Art of Baltic", Rostac and Germany
1986 "International Biennale of Graphic", Perpinian France
1986 "Retrospective Exhibition of One Hundred Years of Russian Art", Center of Pompiolee, Paris France
1983 "International Biennale of Graphic", Brno Czech Republic
1982 "International Biennale of Book Illustration", Bratislava Czech Republic
1981 "International Biennale of Graphic", Banskaya Yugoslavia
1981 "International Biennale of Book Graphic", Bolonia Italy
1981 National Museum of Helsinki and Museum, Turku Finland
1980 "International Biennale of Graphic", Warsaw Poland
1980 "Retrospective Exhibition of Russian and Soviet Graphics", National Museum of Art, Mexico
1980 "Eight Biennale of Graphic", Krakow Poland
1979 "Thirteen Biennale of Graphic", Lublyana Yugoslavia
1978 "Young Artists of Soviet Union", Museum of City Galle, Germany
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