My name is Yaroslav Leonets and I’m modern artist from Ukraine.
A few words from my life and biographie. Since childhood, I felt the need to convey my feelings in a nonverbal way because l could not put them in words. I spent a lot of time alone with my own thoughts and feelings. And this made me to find what I could communicate with the world through, telling about my feelings and a glance at it. Using gestures, facial expressions, physioqnomy. I could not convey what I saw around but I’ve tried visual art and gradually through various artistic images I found a way to reveal and convey what I really feel. I have always been inspired by the search for new forms of communication with the world; therefore, my research in childhood has turned into the work of my life. As an artist I realize myself in various forms of art. I am engaged in painting, graphics and sculpture. I’m experimenting a lot, looking for new ways to convey the reality in which I live. Often I synthesize various materials. Studied in Ukraine the Kharkiv Art College, the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts, easel painting and the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kiev, monumental painting. My teachers are one of the best artists in Ukraine First places in a competition of academic and contemporary art. I’ve been working lately in the genre paintings and in graphics. In my artworks I strive to convey the beauty of nature and human interaction with nature. I also work on social issues, topics that address inner experiences and that highlight our connection to nature and identification. Environmental issues and legal issues. Through this issues figuratives l express my emotions and feelings. Credo: Art is the way of subjective communication with the surrounding world. Using various visual means to express unique, clean, childlike feelings.
EXHIBITIONS
2020 «Takeda. Art / Help. The rule of exclusivity «, Moscow
2020 – Exhibition «Anticipation + Immunity», Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art Korsakov, Lutsk
2020 – «Two Points: we are in a time of changing circumstances», Virtual Exhibition
2020 – Personal exhibition «Manifestation», Oblenergo, Khmelnytsky
2019 – Anniversary All-Ukrainian Exhibition dedicated to the 175th anniversary of Repin, Kharkiv
2019 – IV International Festival Paradzhanova, Lviv
2019 – «Waves of Reality / Excitement in Travneve» Institute of Contemporary Art, Kiev
2019 – Solo exhibition in the Bunkermuz Gallery «Flare», Ternopil
2019 – Biennale of Contemporary Art Bread, Kiev
2018 – Personal exhibition «By the call of the heart», Kharkiv
2018 – «Animals», Kharkiv
2018 – «Picturesque Ukraine», Mariupol
2018 – «4, ballpoint pen», Karas gallery, Kiev
PLENERS AND ART-RESIDENCES
2021 – Plein Air – competition «Best Artist», Vinnytsia
2021 – residence «Mariupol. Sea city», project «Post Most», Mariupol
2021 – All-Ukrainian plein air «Portrait of Podillya», Kamyanets Podilskiy
2020 – Human Rights Art Residence ARTIF, Virtual
2020 – Plein Air – competition «Best Artist», Vinnytsia
2020 – Art Residence «Aura of the City», Starobilsk
2020 – Plein air with the support of the Department of Culture at Fr. Khortytsia, Zaporizhia
2019 – All-Ukrainian Art Residence of Nazar Voitovich, Travneve
2019 – «MetaLab» Residence, Ivano-Frankivsk
2019 – «Diffusion» Art Residence, Mariupol
2018 – Art-residence based on the cinema route, Zhovkva, Lviv
2018 – «Blockchain Art Hackathon 2.0» Residence, Kiev
2018 – «My Ukraine: Pain and Hope» Art Residence, Kiev
