I have been painting for almost half a century. Gradually came to abstract art. which gives the greatest freedom for self-realization.

PAPROTSKY SERHIY PETROVYCH
1955 - born in Odessa, Ukraine
1976 - graduated from the K.D. Ushinsky State Polytechnic University (faculty of art and graphics, teacher: I.D. Logvin)
1977 - began exhibition activity within the framework of the NSHU.
1990 - accepted as a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
Since 1996, he has been working as a deputy. director, methodologist and teacher of special disciplines at M.B. Grekov Polytechnic.
2001-2010 - member of the Board of the NSHU LLC, head of the painting section.
The artist's works are in the collections of the Odesa Art Museum, the Odesa Literary Museum, the Odesa Museum of Modern Art, the Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art (Kyiv), the Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum, the Belgorod-Dniester Local History Museum (Odesa Region), the Museum named after M. Roerich (Odessa), a collection of modern art in Gyor (Hungary), the collection of the Museum of Russian Modern Art in Jersey City, New York (USA) and in many private collections in Ukraine, the USA, Israel, Moldova, Poland, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Canada, Argentina, Turkey, Romania and Russia.
PARTICIPANT IN MORE THAN 90 ALL-UKRAINIAN EXHIBITIONS (KYIV, Lviv, DONETSK, IVANO-FRANKIVSK, POLTAVA, DNIPROPETROVSK, KHARKIV, CHERNIVTSK, etc.), A NUMBER OF FOREIGN EXHIBITIONS (MOLDOVA, JAPAN, GERMANY, ENGLAND, USA (SLOVENIA AND ITALY) , HUNGARY, CANADA, USA, MOLDOVA, ITALY) EXHIBITION.

MAIN PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
1985- ACTOR'S HOUSE (together with L. Vasiliev), Odesa 1991- exhibition hall of LLC NSHU (together with L. Vasiliev), Odesa
1994 - TRIPTYCH gallery, Kyiv
1996- "Old Odesa" (together with I. Vareshkin), World Club of Odessans, Odesa
1998 - the exhibition hall of the Odessa Art Museum
2000 - exhibition hall of the local history museum, Belgorod-Dnistrovsky
2003- "Still Life" (together with I. Vareshkin) in the Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odesa
2004 - "Union" exhibition hall (together with I. Vareshkin and Yu. Silberberg), Odesa
2005 - exhibition hall of the Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odesa
2006-2009 - GALLERY 36, Kyiv
2010 - gallery "PRYMUS" (together with I. Vareshkin), Lviv
- "GALLERY 2", Postojna, Slovenia (together with L. Vasiliev and Y. Silberberg)
- Odesa Literary Museum, (together with I. Vareshkin)
2011 - "GALLERY 36", Kyiv
- "KRASNIČKA" Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012- Odesa Literary Museum, (together with I. Vareshkin)
- the project "Counterpoint" in the Museum of Modern Art of Odessa (together with L. Vasiliev and I. Vareshkin
2013 - "Markoff" gallery, Odesa
2014 - PROSTIR gallery, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- "Semantic Dementia" project, "Yellow Giants" gallery, Odesa
- "Recognition of signs" project, "Markoff" gallery, Odesa (together with I. Vareshkin and A. Akhtyrsky)
2015 - exhibition hall of the Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odesa
2021-artOdesa exhibition hall