Suholit Oleksandr
The influence of Kyiv sculptor Oleksandr Sukholit on the artistic environment of both the capital and Ukraine as a whole is difficult to overestimate. Alone or with groups of like-minded people, he created whole styles in sculpture, combining a variety of techniques and genres, obtaining unexpected but consistently convincing results; his status as a leading artist of his generation is well deserved.
Education
In 1979 he graduated from the Uzhhorod School of Decorative and Applied Arts.
In 1986 – Kyiv State Art Institute (now – National Academy of Arts and Architecture), Department of Sculpture.
Creative path
Sukholit is not limited to sculpture, he tried all genres and techniques: painting, graphics (copper engraving, technique of “dry needle”). He creates an amazing “graphic sculpture” bronze, plaster reliefs, sometimes polychrome. Alexander’s works always hit the mark. His dissertation “Motherhood” (1986) immediately appeared in the National Museum of Ukrainian Fine Arts. 1988 The Artists’ Union organized a group exhibition of works by artists from 15 republics to show it in America. Only one work was selected from Ukraine: the sculpture “Expectations” by Oleksandr Sukholit.
The artist’s work includes about 500 sculptures. The largest of them is made of marble and weighs more than 2 tons. The number of his graphic works, according to the author himself, exceeds 4 thousand.
Personal exhibitions:
2020
“Alexander Sukholit Sculpture and Graphics”, Chocolate House, Kyiv;
2016
“Fields of Sukholit”, gallery “Triptych”, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2014
Landscapes of Sukholit, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2013
“Drawing”, Shcherbenko Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2012
“Untitled”, Karas Gallery Kyiv, Ukraine;
2011
Seas of Sukholit, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine;
“My Archaic”, Small Gallery of the Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2010
“Mother and Child”, Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine;
“People are relevant. LANDSCAPE », art center I Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine;
“Seas of Sukholit”, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Group exhibitions:
2018
“More than a sculpture”, Art Ukraine gallery, Kyiv;
2013
“Great and Majestic”, Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2011
“Earth”, art center I Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2009
Curatorial project of Pavel Gudimov “Miniart”, art center I Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2006
“Landscape”, Carp Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine;
2003
Art Fair, Ghent, Belgium;
2002
Exhibition “Nude”, Kyiv Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Collections:
State Museum of Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine;
Kyiv Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine;
State Museum of Books and Printing, Kyiv, Ukraine;
National Museum of History of Kyiv, Ukraine;
State Museum of Fine Arts, Kharkiv, Ukraine;
State Museum of Contemporary Fine Arts, Khmelnytsky, Ukraine;
Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan;
Wetting Gallery, Odense, Denmark;
Varaždin City Museum, Slyka Gallery, Croatia;
Private collections in Great Britain, the USA, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Hungary, Croatia, Germany, Canada and Ukraine.
