Svitlana Mykhalevych
The works are in the collection of the watercolor museum in the city of Fabriano (Italy), in the museum of T.G. Shevchenko in Beijing (China) and in private collections in Ukraine, Italy, Spain, Russia, Israel, France, Japan and Australia.
Education
UNPU K.D.Ushinsky, Faculty of Graphic Arts, 1996
Art School # 2, Odessa, 1991
Qualifications
2020 MOMA “Modern Art & Ideas” – online course on the Coursera platform.
2019 Creative Enterprise programme, Ukraine. British Council.
2018-2019 Аcting course at the Odessa film studio. Art Max film
2016 History of Photography Course. Odessa
2015 Photography course and photography master classes. Studio, reportage and portrait photography. Odessa
2013 Attended psychology lectures from Odessa University
2012 Landscape design course
Special skills
Languages:
Native Russian/ Ukrainian
Pre-Intermediate French
Upper-Intermediate English
Graphic programs: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe InDesign, Corel Painter
Work experience
1996-2013 Art teaching
2006 -2013 Teaching the subject “Computer Graphics” in the Art School #2, Odessa.
Development of a program and teaching methodology “Computer graphics for children”.
Creating a book about art school 2 (photography, design, layout), diplomas, postcards and
posters for the school.
2004 – 2013 Freelance graphic designer
Solo exhibitions
2021 Odessa Botanical Garden “Time when asters bloom”
2019 Gallery 202, “Pink and Red. #Metamodern ”. Odessa, Ukraine
2019 Gallery 202, exhibition-performance “Unnecessary Art”. Odessa, Ukraine
2018 Bernardazzi greenhouse in Odessa Botanical Garden, exhibition “Watercolor painting of Svetlana Mikhalevich”. Odessa, Ukraine.
2017 Municipal Museum of Personal Collections named after A.V. Bleshchunov, “Travel to Italy.” Odessa, Ukraine.
2016 Municipal Museum of Personal Collections named after A.V. Bleshchunov, “Painting catch”. Odessa, Ukraine.
2014 Odessa Botanical Garden “Painting workshop in the Botanical Garden”. Ukraine
Artist took part in more than 50 exhibition projects.
Selected international art exhibitions and open airs:
2020 A. Bely’s Fine Arts Museum, International exhibition “Living water”. Chernomorsk, Ukraine.
2020 Lavra, Museum of books and typography of Ukraine “Cobalt BLUE. Watercolor.” Kiev, Ukraine.
2020 Municipal Museum of Personal Collections named after A.V. Bleshchunov, “Go and Sketch!”, Odessa, Ukraine.
2018, 2019 “MiniWatercolor”, Kiev, Ukraine.
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 “Fabriano in Acquarello”, Fabriano, Italy.
2019 Watercolor Festival in Urbino, Italy.
2018 ”Watercolor Album-2018″, Lavra, Museum of books and typography of Ukraine. Kiev, Ukraine.
2016, 2018 International biennale “Sea of watercolors”. Odessa, Ukraine.
2017 “The World of Watercolor”, Bratislava, Slovakia.
2016 The first international watercolor festival in Ukraine – IWS. Kiev.
2015 Biennale “Harmony Through Watercolor 2015”, India.
Curator and participant of exhibition projects in Odessa:
2020 Online artists-talks for Odessa artists
2020 International online event for artists #VirtualSketch in Odessa
2020 Museum festival in Odessa, Green theater. Exhibition, performance
2018 Odessa branch of the Greek Cultural Foundation, “Athens-Piraeus-Odessa”
2017 Municipal Museum of Personal Collections named after A.V. Bleshchunov, “Odessa in square format”
2017 Literary Museum, “Italian Plein Air”
2016 Municipal Museum of Personal Collections named after A.V. Bleshchunov, “Odessa in Sketches”
Since 2015, the founder and leader of the social art project Urban Sketchers Odessa, the group is an official part of the international movement Urban Sketchers.
Since 2017 co-founder of “Gallery 202” in Odessa, Ukraine
Svetlana Mikhalevich 