Mykola Zhuravel breaks the boundaries between painting, sculpture, performance and installation. He turns to nature, creating flourishing monuments to the human connection to the Earth. Zhuravel seeks harmony between the Earth and humanity, pointing out the obstacles humans place on the path to this existence. Zhuravlev's ambitious style is manifested in a striking series of vivid images of a fantasy utopia. Using levkas, a traditional primer used by icon painters, he combines the heritage of Byzantine iconography with modern painting techniques. The result is bright and inventive contemporary works that are becoming new icons.

Mykola Zhuravel was born in 1960 in Magnitohorsk, Russia.

1979 — Crimean Art School im.Samokisha, Simferopol, Ukraine

1989 — graduated from the prestigious Kyiv State Arts Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine

1995 — Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine

1996 — The artist is a member of the National Artists' Union of Ukraine and the BG-ART

1996 — Awarded the Zolotyi Peretyn Prize and Artist of the Year title, First International ART Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine

1998 — First Place, the Ukrainian Painting Triennale, Kyiv, Ukraine

2009 — Academician of the Academy of Rome-modernist art

2011 — The nominee on the Shevchenkivska award Included in the 30 of the best artists of Ukraine by version of the "100 names" publication

2016 — 1 Prize on the international Kunstpreis ART Worpswede 2016. Berlin, Germany

Currently resides and works in Toronto, Canada.

• 2023 — United We Stand, KUMF, Toronto, Canada
• 2022 — Mykola Zhuravel & Daria Tischenko-Zhuravel, Art Toronto Fair, Toronto, Canada
• 2022 — Mykola Zhuravel & Daria Tischenko-Zhuravel, The International Peace Festival, The Canadian National Exhibition Association (CNEA), Withrow Common Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• 2022 — Mykola Zhuravel & Daria Tischenko-Zhuravel, Invasion Redux. The Canadian National Exhibition Association (CNEA), Withrow Common Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• 2022 — Painting / Levkas, National Museum "Kyiv Picture Gallery", Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2019 — Painting. Levkas, Museum of the History of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2019 — XIIth Florence Biennale, «Art + Design», ST•H Gallery, Florence, Italy
• 2019 — Texas Contemporary, Texas, USA
• 2019 — International Fall Exhibition, MORA, NY, USA
• 2019 — Modern Ukrainian Symbolism, Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art of Korsaks, Lutsk, Ukraine
• 2018 — Retrospective personal exhibition, Painting / Levkas, Museum of Contemporary Art of Korsakov, Lutsk, Ukraine.
• 2017 — "Transformation of space", White World Gallery, Kyiv
• 2016 — Gewalt | Macht | Herrscher ". Kunstverein ART-Project Worpswede. Berlin, Germany (First Prize)
• 2016 — Ukrainian painting triennial Kyiv 2016 (nomination first prize to Mykola Zhuravel), Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2016 — Invasion Redux. Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA
• 2014 — Ukrainian Institute of America "Following The Inner Light", New York, USA
• 2014 — SCOPE international contemporary art show, New York, USA
• 2013 — "Zorya Fine Art" gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
• 2013 — Art Toronto Fair, Toronto, Canada
• 2011 — "Apiary", Venice Biennale, Italy
• 2010 — "lu Hisu" museum , Shanhai, China
• 2010 — ART Shanhai, China