Holosiy Oleg

Oleg Holosiy is a Ukrainian artist, one of the key representatives of the New Wave of Ukrainian art, which was formed in the last Soviet years and the first years of independence.

He was born in Dnipro in 1965. He graduated from the Yevhen Vuchetych Dnipro Art School, Leonid Antoniuk’s workshop (1984) and the Kyiv State Art Institute, Department of Monumental Painting in Kyiv (1990).

He belonged to the community of artists of the Kyiv squat “Paris Commune”, where he worked together with other famous artists such as Valeriia Trubina, Oleksandr Hnylytskyi, Yurii Solomko, Nataliia Filonenko and others. He took part in such significant exhibitions of that time as “Silence” (1992, Kyiv) and “Postanastasia” (1992, Munich).

Golosiy’s work “Psychedelic Attack of the Blue Rabbits” was acquired and is kept at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (Glasgow, Scotland).

Oleg Holosiy tragically died in 1993 in Kyiv.