YULIA PROTSYSHYN - BIO
Born in West Ukraine.
Yulia started developing as an artist at the age of 14. In 2003 went to the Boichuk Art School in Ternopil, Ukraine. As a teenager she won six Ukrainian Art competitions and received eight distinctions in Art creativity. Apart from the Art School she also attended one year course of private lessons in academic drawing and painting with teacher, artist and printmaker Igor Zilinko who formulated her basic professional skills.
Education:
2020 – 6 months fellowship at the Graphic Department at the E. Geppert Academy of Art, Wroclaw, Poland
2012 – MFA with honours at Fine Arts and Graphics at the Ukrainian Academy of Printing in Lviv, Ukraine.
Diploma under the guidance of her principal teacher Sergiy Ivanov which had a significant impact on developing her art direction.
From 2006 studied “Fine Arts and Graphics” at the Ukrainian Academy of Printing in Lviv, Ukraine.
Work experience:
2019 – 08/2022 – Senior lecturer of composition and printmaking at the Department of Book graphics and printmaking at the Ukrainian Academy of Printing in Lviv, Ukraine
2016 – 2019 Assistant of composition and printmaking at the Department of Book graphics and printmaking at the Ukrainian Academy of Printing in Lviv.
2009 – 2016 –worked as a designer and illustrator for leading ukrainian and international companies and publishers.
Priorities: printmaking, painting, illustration, art books.
Grants and Fellowships:
2020 – Grant “Gaude Polonia” - The Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Warsaw, Poland
2022 – Grant financed by the Dutch Government - Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands
Awards and distinctions:
2023 – Gallery Award, Art Revolution Taipei (A.R.T.), International Artist Grand Prize Competition (I.A.G.P.C.), Taiwan
2021 – Honourable Mention – 11th International Ex libris contest Library of Bodio Lomnago, Italy.
2019 – Nomination at XVII Biennale of Small Forms of Graphic and Exlibris, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland.
2018 – 1st place – in the category of the “Best Exlibris” – Deuche Exlibris-Gesellschaft, Germany.
2018 – 2d place – in the category of the “Best artist” – Deuche Exlibris-Gesellschaft, Germany.
2015 – Excellent Prize – 5th ‘Red Man’ Art Biennial, China.
2015 – Honored Diploma – “Iosif Iser” International Contemporary Engraving Biennial, Romania.
2014 – Honourable Mention – I Exlibris International Granada Contest, Granada, Spain.
2013 – Honored Diploma – “Iosif Iser” International Contemporary Engraving Biennial, Romania.
2005 – Winner of the all-Ukrainian pupils’ creativity contest dedicated to T. Shevchenko's 190th Anniversary, Ukraine.
Artist in residence (awarded):
2022/2023 – AGALAB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022 – Frans Masereel Centrum, Kastelree, Belgium
2022 – SEA Foundation, in collaboration with De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Publications:
2023 – The Nippon Exlibris Association newsletter, № 178, Tokyo, Japan
2022 – interview “The Hand Magazine”, magazine Issue 36, USA
2021 – New Eastern Europe, magazine, magazine January-March No 1-2 (XLV), Poland
2021 – ‘GRAPHIA’ 2021/1, magazine, Belgium.
2019 – RIVISTA DELL’ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA di EX LIBRIS, magazine n. 25, Italy.
2019 – 30th Anniversary of HKEA. A collection of international bookplates 1989-2019, Hong Kong Exlibris Association, Hong Kong.
2019 – Publication of the artwork at the calendar “Musiker Musikerinnen”2020, Berlin, Germany.
2018 – Publication of the artwork at the calendar “Musiker Musikerinnen”2019, Berlin, Germany.
2017 – Encyclopedia vol. 24 “Contemporary international ex-libris artists”, Portugal.
2017 – Publication of the artwork at the calendar “Musiker Musikerinnen”2018, Berlin, Germany.
2016 – Publication of the artwork at the calendar “Starke Frauen”2017, Berlin, Germany.
Selected exhibitions:
Solo:
2020 – “EQUILIBRIUM” – KEW Gallery in the Castle near Wroclaw on the water in Wojnowice, Poland
2011 - “Painting and graphics”, Murcia, Spain.
Group exhibitions:
2023 – 18th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Lodz, Poland
2023 – 5-d International Exlibris competition, Largo Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
2023 – Exhibition of small graphics of invited artists, Hana-Asagi Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2022 – IPC international Mini Print, Teh-Chun Gallery, Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
2022 – finalist - International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2022 R.O.C., National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2022 – Bookplate Design Competition & Exhibition, American Society of Bookplate Collectors & Designers and FISAE XXXIX, San Francisco, USA
2021 – Graphic Exhibition: teachers’ and students’ artworks of the Department of book graphics and printmaking, Lviv Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine
2021 – International Exlibris competition Deuche Exlibris-Gesellschaft, Haltern am See, Germany
2021 – “Wind from the East”, joint exhibition of graphics by 25 selected artists, Grand Hotel Palace, Varese, Italy.
2021 – 2d International Ttiennial of smal graphics Intaglio, White World Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 – 22d Mini Print Triennale Grenchen, Switzerland.
2021 – 10th International Graphic Triennial - Bitola, Institute and Museum Bitola, Bitola, Macedonia.
2021 – 27th International exhibition of modern exlibris, Malbork, Poland.
2021 – 2d International Print Triennial, online exhibition, Cieszyn, Poland
2020 – 17th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Lodz, Poland
2020 – FISAE International Exlibris competition, London, UK
2020 – International Bookplate Design, Victoria, Australia
2019 – International exhibition of exlibris “Tandem”, White World Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2019 – International Exlibris exhibition Deuche Exlibris-Gesellschaft, Wetzlar, Germany
2019 – 10th International Exlibris competition, Italian Ex Libris Association in cooperation with Xotaris Art Forum from Archanes, Villa Puricelli, Bodio Lomnago, Italy
2019 – 22th Sint-Niklaas International Bookplates and Small Printmaking Competition, Stedelijke Museum, Belgium
2019 – Exhibition of smal graphics “Intaglio”, B.Voznytskyi National Gallery of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine.
2018 – Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
2018 – 3-d Int. Exlibris competition, Largo Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria.
2018 – International exlibris competition 37-th FISAE, Prague, Czech Republic.
2018 – International exlibris “Armistice”competition, Saint Mihiel Museum, Noveant-sur-Moselle, France.
2018 – 4th International exlibris competition, Istanbul Exlibris Society, Turkey.
2018 – International Ttiennial of smal graphics Intaglio, White World Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2018 – XII International Competition for Exlibris, Gliwice, Poland.
2018 – Shanxi China “Print and Family Tradition” Contest, Taiyuan Art Museum, Taiyuan, China.
2017 – Ukrainian exhibition of exlibris, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2017 – Muestra International De Exlibris “El Bosque de la Utopia”, Zacatecas, Mexico.
2017 – Graphics Exhibition of teachers’ and students’ graphics of the Department of book and printmaking, Gallery of the Institute of European Culture, Gnieznie, Poland.
2016 – XVI Biennale of Small Forms of Graphic and Exlibris, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland.
2016 – Osten Biennial of Drawing, Skopje, Macedonia.
2016 – Guangzhou International Exlibris and Mini-prints Biennial, Guangzhou, China.
2015 – The 25 International Biennal exhibition of modern exlibris, Malbork, Poland.
2015 – Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial, Tokyo, Japan.
2015 – III International Triennial of small graphic forms and exlibris, Brest, Belarus.
2015 – VII International D’EX-LIBRIS Contratalla, Tarragona, Spain.
2014 – International Exlibris competition, Largo Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgary.
2014 – The 8 Shanghai Fu Xian International Exlibris Invitation Competition, Shanghai, China.
2014 – Guangzhou International Exlibris and Mini-prints Biennial, Guangzhou, China.
2014 – XV Biennale of Small Forms of Graphic and Exlibris, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland.
2014 – “Mini Space” National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine.
2013 – The 24 International Biennal exhibition of modern exlibris, Malbork, Poland.
2013 – Lviv printmaking, Lviv Gallery of art, Lviv, Ukraine.
2013 – 3e Biennal de I’ESTAMPE en Maris Poitevin, Magne, France.
2013 – Lvivske Retro, National Palace of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine.
2013 – IX International Exlibris Competition Ex Erotic, Ruse, Bulgaria.
2013 – The XVIII-th Vilnius’ biennial of ex libris, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2013 – The 7th Shanghai Fu Xian International Exlibris Competition, Shanghai, China.
2013 – II International biennale exhibition-competition of small graphic forms and exlibris, Belarus.
Works in private collections of: Ukraine, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, China, Spain, Japan, USA, Italy, Poland, Hong Kong, UK.
Collections:
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Wroclaw City Council, Poland
The State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia
Biblioteca Bodio Lomnago, Italy
Wenbo Art Museum of China, Dalian, China