Biography
Hlib Anatoliyovych Vysheslavskyi (born 1962, Kyiv) is a painter, graphic artist, multidisciplinary artist, art historian, curator, art theorist, and art critic.
1980 – Graduated from the Taras Shevchenko Republican Art High School.
1985 – Graduated from the Art Faculty of the Moscow Graphic Arts Institute.
1988, 1989, 1991 – Participant in youth open-air plein air sessions in Sedniv led by Tiberiy Silvashi and Oleksandr Soloviov.
1989 – Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
1989–1993 – Studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the studio of Christian Boltanski. Curated exhibitions for the Club 1/1 artistic group.
1992 – Completed a residency at the Villa Arson Foundation (Nice).
1993–1995 – Studied art history at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (NAFAA).
1994 – Editor-in-Chief of Terra Incognita, a journal on contemporary art; Research Fellow at the Modern Art Research Institute.
2009 – Member of the Sztuka bez Granic International Association of Artists (Kraków, Poland).
2014 – Earned a Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in Art History.
Lives and works in Kyiv.
Hlib Vysheslavskyi is the author of installations, performances, paintings, and graphic works, as well as a curator and participant in numerous exhibitions and art projects. He participated in the 50th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, was an active member of the squatter movement starting in the 1980s, founder and editor-in-chief of the journal TERRA INCOGNITA (1993–2001), editor-in-chief of Gallery journal at the Soviart Center for Contemporary Art (2007–2010), and a research fellow at the Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine and Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV). He is the author of books and scholarly articles on the history and theory of visual culture, including “The New Wave in the Visual Art of Ukraine in the 1980s–Early 1990s: Sociocultural Aspect” (2014), “Contemporary Art of Ukraine: From Underground to Mainstream” (2020), “A Heritage Steeped in Many Cultures: The Work of Oleksandr Stakhov-Shuldyzhenko” (2022), and “Witness to the Holocaust: Artist Zinovy Tolkatchev” (2022).
