Borys Buryak (born 25 October 1953 in Podvirne,

Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast ( uk, Черніве́цька о́бласть, Chernivetska oblast), also referred to as Chernivechchyna ( uk, Чернівеччина) is an oblast (province) in Western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the regio ...

, in the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

) is a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. His works depict Ukrainian landscapes and urban views, or draw on the traditions of Ukrainian

iconography Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct fro ...

. Buryak graduated from the

Ivan Trush Ivan Trush ( uk, Іван Труш, pronounced as ''Troosh'': 1869–1941) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian Impressionism, impressionist painter, a master of landscape and portraiture, an art critic, and active community patron of arts in Galicia (C ...

College of Arts in 1974, and from the

Lviv Academy of Arts Lviv National Academy of Arts is a higher education establishment in Lviv, Ukraine. History Officially opened in September 1946 as the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, the Academy was reorganized into the Lviv Academy of Arts ...

in 1979. He is a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. In 1991 he won the National Union of Artists Prize (

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

, 1991), and was recognised in the international "New Names" awards in Moscow in 1992. Buryak today lives and works in

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

, Ukraine, where he runs a private art school.

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