Impressionism

Kyriak Kostandi

1852–1921

Greek-Ukrainian leader of the Odesa school; president of the Society of South Russian Artists and director of the Odesa City Museum; admired for luminous handling of sunlight.

Mykola Serheiev

1855–1919

Mykola Serheiev was a landscape painter born in Kharkiv in 1855 who built his career in St Petersburg and died of typhus back in Kharkiv in 1919. Although catalogued almost everywhere as a Russian painter, his subjects were overwhelmingly Ukrainian: orchards, village gardens, the Dnipro and the Kharkiv-region countryside.

Petro Levchenko

1856–1917

Kharkiv landscape painter of intimate, lyrical Ukrainian villages and courtyards in increasingly impressionist colour; ~800 landscapes.

Mariia Bashkirtseva

1858–1884

Mariia Bashkirtseva was a painter, sculptor and diarist born in the village of Havrontsi in Ukraine's Poltava region, who became one of the most talked-about young artists of 1880s Paris. Trained at the Académie Julian and shaped by the naturalism of Jules Bastien-Lepage, she won a Salon gold medal in 1879 and died of tuberculosis at 25. Her early works are today divided between the State Russian Museum and Ukrainian collections in Dnipro and Kharkiv.

Mykhailo Berkos

1861–1919

A Ukrainian landscape painter trained in Odesa and at the Imperial Academy, who settled near Kharkiv painting impressionist-influenced Ukrainian landscapes and helped found the Kharkiv Art College.

Ivan Trush

1869–1941

One of the foremost Ukrainian Impressionists; ~6,000 works; central to founding the Lviv National Museum; painted luminous landscapes and portraits of Ukrainian cultural figures.

Petro Nilus

1869–1943

An Impressionist painter and writer born in Podolia and raised in Odesa, where he trained under Kyriak Kostandi. A friend of Bunin, he emigrated to Paris in 1920, where he worked until his death.

Serafyma Blonska

1870–1947

Serafyma Blonska was a Ukrainian painter born in Verkhnodniprovsk on the Dnipro, trained at Mykola Murashko's Kyiv Drawing School and at the Imperial Academy of Arts, with further study in Italy. Her 1900 diploma canvas Girls. Palm Sunday, a candle-lit church interior full of girls holding willow branches, is one of the finest Ukrainian paintings of Easter-cycle ritual. With her husband, the Myrhorod-born painter Oleksandr Leontovskyi, she ran a drawing school in Taganrog for eighteen years, teaching orphaned children free of charge.

Mykola Burachek

1871–1942

Virtuoso Impressionist landscape painter, theatre designer and writer; studied under Stanisławski and in Matisse's studio; taught in Kyiv and Kharkiv.

Hryhorii Svitlytskyi

1872–1948

A Ukrainian painter and trained musician born and died in Kyiv, who studied under Murashko, Repin and Kuindzhi. Nicknamed the 'Poet of Moonlit Nights,' he was a lyrical landscapist and in 1946 became the first People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.

Oleksa Novakivskyi

1872–1935

Evolved from Impressionism through Symbolism to personal Expressionism; under Sheptytsky's patronage founded an influential Lviv art school (1923).

Fotii Krasytskyi

1873–1944

A Ukrainian painter and graphic artist, grand-nephew of Taras Shevchenko, who studied under Pymonenko, Kostandi and Repin. A realist with impressionist leanings, he taught at the Kyiv State Art Institute.

Oleksandr Murashko

1875–1919

Often called the most important Ukrainian artist of the turn of the century; trained under Repin and Ažbe; 'Carousel' won gold at Munich 1909; co-founded the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts (1917); murdered in Kyiv 1919.

Fedir Konovaliuk

1890–1984

Fedir Konovaliuk was a Kyiv painter and illustrator who began as an icon painter in the Pechersk Lavra workshop and became one of the most exact landscapists of the Ukrainian village. He worked for decades alongside Ivan Yizhakevych, together producing illustrations for the classics of Ukrainian literature. His small, densely coloured panels record identifiable places, seasons and even particular days rather than picturesque scenery.

Serhii Shyshko

1911–1997

Serhii Shyshko was a Ukrainian landscape painter who spent five decades recording Kyiv and its surroundings in a loose, light-filled plein-air manner. He is best known for the 'Kyivan Suite', a cycle of more than a hundred canvases of the city, and was among the most decorated landscapists of Soviet Ukraine.

Tetiana Yablonska

1917–2005

Tetiana Yablonska was one of the defining painters of twentieth-century Ukraine, whose sixty-year career ran from prize-winning Socialist Realist canvases to intensely personal late pastels. Trained in Kyiv under Fedir Krychevskyi, she won three USSR State Prizes yet repeatedly collided with the Party over its control of art. Her 1969 canvas 'Youth' and her folk-inflected paintings of the 1960s mark her as one of the artists who reopened Ukrainian painting to something other than official doctrine.

Volodymyr Sydoruk

1925–1997

Volodymyr Sydoruk (1925–1997) – Ukrainian painter. He graduated from the Kyiv Art School (1938), where he studied under I. Khvorostetskyi and Y. Kyianchenko. He participated in exhibitions (beginning in 1954). Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1957). Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1985). During his lifetime, the artist held 12 solo exhibitions. He worked primarily in the genres of landscape, still life, and thematic painting. The artist’s works are held in museums in Ukraine, as well as in private collections and galleries in Ukraine, Russia, Japan, and Europe.

Yurii Lesiuk

b. 1947

Yurii Lesiuk is a Lviv painter, Honoured Artist of Ukraine, and head of the painting department at the Ivan Trush Lviv State College of Decorative and Applied Arts. His thematic canvases, landscapes, still lifes and portraits are emphatically national in character, mixing Hutsul and Pokuttia ritual and folk humour with a decorative, flattened treatment of form. He has taken part in more than ninety exhibitions and held eleven solo shows in Ukraine, Canada and the USA.

Serhii Komornyi

b. 1963

Serhii Komornyi (b. 1963, Chuhuiv) is a Kharkiv-based Ukrainian artist who works almost entirely in pastel on large-format paper, in a manner that sits between drawing and painting. He paints psychological portraits, plein-air landscapes and still lifes with a bright impressionist palette.

Ihor Khilko

b. 1969

Ihor Khilko (b. 1969, Sokyriany) is a Ukrainian painter, icon restorer and academic based in Chernivtsi. He paints Carpathian landscapes, still lifes and seasonal subjects in a figurative, light-driven manner, and has restored icons of the Dniester Bukovyna region. He is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and an associate professor at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University.

Oleh Savka

b. 1978

Oleh Savka is a contemporary Ukrainian painter, designer and architect who lives in the old town of Kyiv and paints its streets, courtyards and churches with a palette knife. Trained as a furniture and interior designer, he turned intensively to painting in 2022 and by early 2026 had completed some ninety-nine canvases.

Oleksandr Shandor

b. 1981

Oleksandr Shandor (born 1981 in Vynohradiv, Transcarpathia) is a Ukrainian landscape and still-life painter of the Transcarpathian school, working in oil in a warm impressionist manner. He joined the folk creative association "Verkhovynskyi Khudozhnyk" in 2007 and the youth union "Artists of Transcarpathia" in 2012.

Serhii Poliakov

b. 1982

Serhii Poliakov (b. 1982) is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian painter known for atmospheric cityscapes of Kyiv — Khreshchatyk, Bessarabska Square, the Dnipro bridges — as well as portraits and historical battle scenes. He paints in oil with heavy layering and expressive brushwork drawn from the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.

Denys Horodnychyi

b. 1984

Denys Horodnychyi (b. 1984) is a Ukrainian landscape painter based in Poltava. He works in oil on canvas and cardboard, mostly at small scale, on the rivers, fields and coastlines of Ukraine and occasional Mediterranean subjects. His stated aim is to catch the changing states and moods of nature rather than to describe a place.

Vladyslav Zadvorskyi

b. 1984

Vladyslav Zadvorskyi (b. 1984, Shpola) is a Ukrainian painter based in Irpin near Kyiv who works in an impressionist and realist idiom. He paints landscapes, portraits and figurative compositions, and since 2022 has documented the wartime history of Irpin.

Yevhen Cherniakovskyi

b. 1993

Yevhen Cherniakovskyi (listed commercially as Evgeny Chernyakovsky) is a Ukrainian painter born in 1993 who studied at K. D. Ushynskyi university in Odesa. He works in thick, high-impasto oils on canvas, returning repeatedly to water lilies, ponds and river surfaces in a broadly impressionist manner.

Zlata Shyshman

b. 1995

Zlata Shyshman is a contemporary Ukrainian painter from Izmail, working in Odesa. Born in 1995 into the family of the Merited Artist of Ukraine Ivan Shyshman, she paints plein-air landscapes, Odesa courtyards and streets, still lifes and portraits in a bright, sunlit contemporary impressionism, and has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 2018.

Orest Kuziv

b. 1997

Orest Kuziv is a Ukrainian painter born in 1997 in Ivano-Frankivsk, and a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Working chiefly in oil, he is known for nocturnal landscapes and for a long-running series of paintings of haystacks. He describes himself as an impressionist and has produced more than a thousand works.

Oleksandr Shcherbyna

Oleksandr Shcherbyna is a contemporary Ukrainian painter and pastellist based in Odesa who sells internationally through Saatchi Art, where he has listed work since 2017. He paints small-format landscapes, seasonal studies and still lifes in oil on canvas and pressed cardboard, and works extensively in pastel on paper.