Vasyl Dutka

Vasyl Dutka, Honored Artist of Ukraine, associate professor of the department of fine arts and academic disciplines, was born on March 6, 1965 in the village of Mykolaivka, Buchach district, Ternopil region.

From 1981-19185 he studied at the Kosiv College of Folk Art named after V.Kasiyan in the department of artistic ceramics.

From 1985-1987 he served in the army.

From 1987-1993 he studied at the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Art. Teachers by profession: Vasyl Boychuk, Anatoliy Kalitko, Mykola Soltis, Anastasiya Kobyuk, Hryhoriy Kolos, Ivan Andreykanich, Ivan Frank, Taras Yanko, Volodymyr Cherkasov, Yuriy Dvornik.

Since 1993 he has been working at the Kosiv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Art.

The artist works productively in various genres - still lifes, portraits, thematic paintings, and especially landscapes, which occupy a significant place in his work. It is the images of nature that attract with their beauty, special sonority of color, realism and at the same time romantic reinterpretation of the surrounding Carpathian nature.

As a true specialist-teacher, today Vasyl Dutka passes on his acquired knowledge to his students, making a significant contribution to the artistic treasury of our Ukraine through his creative work.

Vasyl Yakovych has a considerable creative legacy, known to the general public from his exhibitions, catalogs of works and publications in the press. The author tries to complement the exposition of his paintings and graphics with unknown works that are in private collections and museums of Ukraine and the world.

"Vasyl Dutka's paintings are characterized, first of all, by high compositional discipline, regardless of the scale of the image. With the power of intuition and dedication, he has created an individual vision of life, revealing its various facets in the equivalent of high art. In terms of richness and problematic nature of painting, he occupies a unique place in the cultural and artistic process of modernity. The artist's moral and ethical credo involves further development of his author's mythologem. The refined, sophisticated nature of his painting style reinforces the semantic line in his reflections on history and modernity, on the visible, imaginary and unfathomable..."
Roman Yatsiv, Professor at the Lviv National Academy of Arts