Biography
Lyubomyr Myroslavovych Medvid (b. 1941, village of Variaz, Lviv region) is a painter, graphic artist, and educator.
From 1960 – Participated in art exhibitions.
1965 – Graduated from the Lviv Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts.
From 1966 – Works at the Lviv Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts; from 1992 – Head of the Department of Monumental and Decorative Painting; from 2001 – Professor.
1970 – Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
1987 – Honored Artist of Ukraine.
1999 – People’s Artist of Ukraine.
2004 – Academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.
2009, 2018 – Knight of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, IV and V Class.
2014 – Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.
Lives and works in Lviv.
An intellectual and philosopher, Lyubomyr Medvid prompts the viewer to reflect on the eternally relevant issues of choice, faith, morality, and ethics: “I have always wanted to paint what my inner eye sees, the experience of my own life, not someone else’s. Even today, I believe that in art, it is not only ‘how’ to paint that matters, but also ‘what’ to paint. And, frankly speaking, I cannot imagine an artist—an honest, decent person—who could live and create today as if there had never been dramatic pages in our people’s history and complex spiritual issues facing humanity in the modern civilized world.” The artist strives to delve into and penetrate the secret recesses of the human soul to understand human destiny on Earth.
