Ivan Mykhaylov
Works
Biography
Ivan Mykhaylov was born in Kyiv in 1982. He studied at the T. G. Shevchenko State Art Secondary School and at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (NAOMA) in Kyiv, in the monumental painting workshop of Prof. M. Storozhenko. He then completed an assistantship (postgraduate traineeship) at NAOMA. He is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and of the Ukrainian Film Academy.
He works in easel and monumental painting, easel and book graphics and photography. In 2004 he took part in restoring the decoration of the Church of the Nativity on Poshtova Square in Kyiv. In 2013 he won the Grand Prix of the All-Ukrainian Triennial of Painting.
He is also an established film and theatre production designer. His films as production designer include "Pamfir" (dir. Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk), for which he received the Golden Dzyga award of the Ukrainian Film Academy for Best Production Designer in 2023. Others are "The Weightlifter" (Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, 2018), "The Editorial Office" (Roman Bondarchuk, 2024), "Tato" (Anna Malishevska, 2022) and Julian Rosefeldt's project "Euphoria". He also designs the annual DOCUDAYS UA International Documentary Film Festival.
Earlier he worked as assistant production designer on "Stop-Zemlia", "Yassa", "Our Cats" and other films, and as set decorator on Krzysztof Zanussi's "Ether", "Brama" and "Parajanov". In theatre he designed "Zobeida" (Pidval Kultury, 2024), "Against the Darkness" (Theatre on Pechersk, 2025) and "Durko" (Drama and Comedy Theatre on the Left Bank, 2025).
He also creates exhibition designs. He was chief artist of "The Star Is Rising" at Kyiv Central Railway Station (2023) and of "Third Breath" at the M82 space (2025), and designed exhibition spaces for UNITED24 (2024) and for UkraineWOW in Kyiv and London, including "The Sabre of Hetman Mazepa" (2025). He is the son of the artists Borys Mykhailov and Yelena Mikhaylova-Rodina and lives and works in Kyiv.
Selected exhibitions
- 2024
"Reverse Perspective", National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War (Motherland Monument), Kyiv
- 2021
Report exhibition "Citadel Art Plein Air", Lviv
- 2018
"The Edge of the Earth", MASLO Gallery, Khmelnytskyi
Solo exhibition
- 2017–2022
All-Ukrainian art exhibitions, Central House of Artists, Kyiv
- 2017
"Our Crimea", Crimean House, Kyiv
- 2016
"Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
- 2016
"Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", Palace of Arts, Lviv
- 2014
"Under the Blue Sky, in Frames", IX ART-KYIV Contemporary 2014, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
- 2014
"Ukrainian Landscape: Beyond Despair", Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
- 2013
"The Bear Cult", National Museum of Russian Art (now National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery"), Kyiv
Solo exhibition
- 2013
"Introversion", M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv
- 2013
All-Ukrainian Triennial of Painting, Central House of Artists, Kyiv (Grand Prix)
- 2013
"Ukrainian Art", exhibition hall of the Les Issambres town hall, France
- 2011
"At the Edge of the Earth", Bottega Gallery, Kyiv
Solo exhibition
- 2011
"Out of Reach", Ya. Gretter Art Center, Kyiv
Solo exhibition
- 2010–2011
"Ukrainian Contemporary Art", pre-auction exhibitions of the "Golden Section" auction, Kyiv
- 2010
"Elementary Particles", Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv
- 2010
"Young Ukrainian Artists" (MUKhi), Institute of Contemporary Art Problems, Kyiv
- 2010
"Eternity", "Ra" Gallery, Kyiv
- 2010
"Ukrainian Painting", Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania
- 2009
"Day by Day", "Dzyga" Gallery; "L2" Festival, Warsztaty Kultury, Lublin, Poland
- 2008
"A View of Ukraine", House of Europe and the Orient, Paris, France
Solo exhibition
- 2008
"Artists for Chernivtsi", Chernivtsi Art Museum
- 2007
"A Dreamer's Walk", Cultural Centre of the Embassy of Ukraine, Paris, France
Solo exhibition
- 2007
Exhibition hall of the "Ukraine" Foundation, Kyiv
Solo exhibition
- 2007
"Merry Bokovenky" (duo with M. Nimenko), "Mytets" Gallery, Kyiv
- 2007
"Art of Nations", Astana, Kazakhstan
- 2006
"Ukrainian Classical Painting", "Khlibnia" Gallery, Sophia of Kyiv, Kyiv
- 2006
"Kyiv–Rome", "Khlibnia" Gallery, Sophia of Kyiv, Kyiv, and Rome, Italy
- 2005
"Ukrainian Painting", Palace of Arts, Częstochowa, and Monastery of St Benedict, Kraków, Poland
- 2004
"Agoraphobia", "Dzyga" Gallery, Lviv
- 2004
"Reflection", NAOMA, Kyiv
- 2004
"Kisses", "Tadzio" Gallery, Kyiv
- 2004
"Globus-9", Globus shopping centre, Kyiv
- 2003
"Aviation Day", "Dim Mykoly" Gallery, Kyiv
- 2003
Moscow International Art Salon, Central House of Artists, Moscow
- 2001
"Between Heaven and Earth", "Universytet" Gallery, Kyiv
- 1999–2010
All-Ukrainian art exhibitions, Central House of Artists, Kyiv
- 1999–2002
"Aydın Doğan" International Cartoon Competition, Istanbul, Turkey
- 1998
Exhibition dedicated to the Archangel Michael, Central House of Artists, Kyiv