Tistol Oleg

Yalta 15 150x120 cm, paper, acrylic, 2015
Date of Birth: 1969
Place of residence: Kyiv

Tistol Oleg (August 25, 1960, Vradiyivka, Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine, USSR) is a Ukrainian artist, a representative of the Ukrainian neo-baroque, and one of the leaders of the New Ukrainian Wave.

Oleg Tistol was born in the village of Vradiyivka, Mykolayiv region, in the family of Mykhailo Fedorovych Tistol, an agronomist. In 1970 his mother Bolgarina (Tistol) Valentina Sergeevna received a position of the chief of regional management of culture, and Oleg with parents moved to Nikolaev.

He began his art education in 1972 at a children’s art school. In 1974 he entered the Republican Art High School. Taras Shevchenko to the department of painting and moved to Kyiv. From 1978 to 1979 he worked as a font artist at the Mykolayiv Art Foundation. From 1979 to 1984 he studied at the Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts. From 1984 to 1986 he served in the military unit Makarov-1, where he met Konstantin (Winnie) Reunov.

In 1988 he married the artist Marina Skugareva.

At the 1st Soviet-American exhibition “Soviart” Oleg Tistol met the artist Dmitry Kantorov, who invited him to the Moscow squat “Furmanny Lane”. At the end of 1988, Tistol and Reunov, in collaboration with curator Olga Sviblova, began presenting their work in Glasgow, Reykjavik, Helsinki, and more. From 2002 to 2009 he worked with curator Olga Lopukhova, a joint project – “Hudfond” (2009).

Since 1993 he has lived and worked in Kyiv.

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