Yevhen Hordiiets

Yevhen Hordiiets is a Ukrainian surrealist artist. He was born in Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast. He graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute (1971–1977), where he studied under O. Lopukhov; and the Creative Workshop of the USSR Academy of Arts in Kyiv (1978–1982), where his supervisor was S. Grigoriev. He worked at the “Artist” Creative and Production Association (1977–1991). Lecturer at the Kyiv State Art Institute (1977–1978). Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1979). Graduate student at the Creative Workshops of the Academy of Arts of the USSR in Kyiv (1978–1982). Participant in republican, all-Union, and international exhibitions (since 1977), including in Paris (1989), New York (1995), Scottsdale, and Nantucket (2001). First prize for his diploma work at the All-Union Diploma Exhibition in Vilnius (1977), First prize at the Republican Exhibition (Kyiv, 1982). Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1986). His works are held in the National Museum “Kyiv Art Gallery,” the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Cologne Museum of Modern Art, and others. Yevhen Hordiiets’ works have been sold at international auctions, and in 1990, one of his works graced the cover of a Christie’s catalog. He has lived in the United States since 1991.