One of a kind chawan, wheel thrown, 1200 c fired, raku fired “Tag” series (2025) by dmytro bilokin - subjektiv.art
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dmytro bilokin
Artist from Ukraine
Dmytro Bilokin
Born in Poltava on December 15, 1987.
From a young age, I was passionate about drawing, sculpting, music, and anything related to visual images and sound. Ideas and fantasies flowed into my consciousness in a torrential stream and I expressed them on paper. I drew constantly and tirelessly for days on end, with huge support from my family. I studied in all the well-known art circles and schools in Poltava from an early age.
My greatest love was for the medium of graphics. I was fascinated by street art and hip-hop culture, which significantly influenced my developing style.
I became closely acquainted with ceramics during my time at Yuri Kondratyuk University, where I had the honor of studying under some of the best teachers: Oleksandr Levadny, Pavlo Volyk, Oleksandr Tarasenko, Vitaliy Khanko, and Mykola Gryban. My older friends, who were students and colleagues at the time, greatly influenced my development in pottery and my philosophical perception of clay art: Yuriy Myrko, Andriy Sobyanin, and Oleksandr Sholukha. I professionally mastered various artistic disciplines and skills throughout my studies and defended my diploma projects in ceramics, where I combined pottery, sculpting, and metalwork techniques. After receiving my master's degree in fine and decorative-applied arts in 2011, my progress in art began, and ceramics have stayed close to my heart ever since.
I set up my workshop in the old family house where I grew up and spent my childhood forming the foundations of my artistic vision. My father gifted me my first electric kiln shortly before he passed away. He also made a pottery wheel for me, which I still use today. I learned a lot and experimented with technologies and firings. I developed my style and approach, including ornamentation, initially inspired by folk and traditional ceramics. Eventually, I began to use glazes widely. In 2014-2015, I studied and took an interest in the ceramic art of the Far East, being greatly inspired by masters such as Ken Matsuzaki, Shimaoka Tatsuzo, Hamada Shoji, Miva Kyusetsu XI, Kato Tokuro, Kato Kozo, Nakajima Hiroshi, Shimizu Uichi, Yamamoto Toshu, Yamada Jozan III, and many others. I was fascinated by videos of wood firings, the endless textures, color transitions, and incredibly sophisticated forms. It was then that I firmly realized this was my path, and in 2015, I created my brand, Dmytro Bilokin Ceramics.
I want to emphasize that throughout this period, the tea tradition helped me, opening new worlds of forms, states, silence, and contemplation.
From 2015 to the present day, I have rarely left the workshop, working constantly and diligently. This path is not easy, but it is incredibly interesting and inspiring. Joy and childlike wonder envelop me every time a new miracle is born in the kiln: a bowl, a vase, a sculpture. This feeling is incomparable.
I have participated in numerous contemporary ceramics exhibitions, design projects, and markets in Ukraine and worldwide. In 2021, I was accepted into the renowned international guide of craftsmen and masters, the Michelangelo Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland. For
many years, I created unique tableware and decorative items for well-known restaurants, third-wave coffee shops, and private collections. I am a co-founder of Ukrainian contemporary ceramics brands: Pershozviri and Namir Studio. In May 2025, I opened my gallery in Kyiv called IRSAD eternal objects. I continue to work on creating new, modern, object designs in the medium of ceramics, embodying the depths of traditions in modern form. The connection with nature in creativity has always been important to me. The roots and depth hold the trunk of modernity and transform into a new, unique form of the future.
My works are in private and museum collections in Ukraine and worldwide: (USA, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, UK, Taiwan, France, Israel, UAE)
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One of a kind chawan, wheel thrown, 1200 c fired, raku fired “Tag” series
The series "Tag" is dedicated to the art of graffiti. Street, free self-expression of an independent subject in his manifestation of creativity, an artist-painter. The street here is a canvas, and anyone can become a spectator, there are no barriers, prohibitions. This is a manifestation of self-expression, when you don't need any tools except paints, markers and, of course, a burning feeling to create. I have long wanted to organically combine ceramic objects and this art. Since I have been engaged and passionate about them for a long time. For me, ceramics as a tradition of form, ornaments, is rather an archetypal beginning and database, a living archive to which I am always connected. This is soil, nature, matter, wall. Graffiti is a rebellion, fire, something primordial from creativity, spontaneous, uninvolved and wild. Tags and graffiti are new urban ornaments that endlessly weave the bodies of cities with a colorful, multilayered web. Someone once put their name, image, character here, someone is no longer there, or maybe they are thousands of kilometers away from the place of the drawing. Graffiti is a very human art, it always warms my heart and faith in free expression. When these two realities come together, a very special creation comes out.
Dmytro Bilokin
Born in Poltava on December 15, 1987.
From a young age, I was passionate about drawing, sculpting, music, and anything related to visual images and sound. Ideas and fantasies flowed into my consciousness in a torrential stream and I expressed them on paper. I drew constantly and tirelessly for days on end, with huge support from my family. I studied in all the well-known art circles and schools in Poltava from an early age.
My greatest love was for the medium of graphics. I was fascinated by street art and hip-hop culture, which significantly influenced my developing style.
I became closely acquainted with ceramics during my time at Yuri Kondratyuk University, where I had the honor of studying under some of the best teachers: Oleksandr Levadny, Pavlo Volyk, Oleksandr Tarasenko, Vitaliy Khanko, and Mykola Gryban. My older friends, who were students and colleagues at the time, greatly influenced my development in pottery and my philosophical perception of clay art: Yuriy Myrko, Andriy Sobyanin, and Oleksandr Sholukha. I professionally mastered various artistic disciplines and skills throughout my studies and defended my diploma projects in ceramics, where I combined pottery, sculpting, and metalwork techniques. After receiving my master's degree in fine and decorative-applied arts in 2011, my progress in art began, and ceramics have stayed close to my heart ever since.
I set up my workshop in the old family house where I grew up and spent my childhood forming the foundations of my artistic vision. My father gifted me my first electric kiln shortly before he passed away. He also made a pottery wheel for me, which I still use today. I learned a lot and experimented with technologies and firings. I developed my style and approach, including ornamentation, initially inspired by folk and traditional ceramics. Eventually, I began to use glazes widely. In 2014-2015, I studied and took an interest in the ceramic art of the Far East, being greatly inspired by masters such as Ken Matsuzaki, Shimaoka Tatsuzo, Hamada Shoji, Miva Kyusetsu XI, Kato Tokuro, Kato Kozo, Nakajima Hiroshi, Shimizu Uichi, Yamamoto Toshu, Yamada Jozan III, and many others. I was fascinated by videos of wood firings, the endless textures, color transitions, and incredibly sophisticated forms. It was then that I firmly realized this was my path, and in 2015, I created my brand, Dmytro Bilokin Ceramics.
I want to emphasize that throughout this period, the tea tradition helped me, opening new worlds of forms, states, silence, and contemplation.
From 2015 to the present day, I have rarely left the workshop, working constantly and diligently. This path is not easy, but it is incredibly interesting and inspiring. Joy and childlike wonder envelop me every time a new miracle is born in the kiln: a bowl, a vase, a sculpture. This feeling is incomparable.
I have participated in numerous contemporary ceramics exhibitions, design projects, and markets in Ukraine and worldwide. In 2021, I was accepted into the renowned international guide of craftsmen and masters, the Michelangelo Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland. For
many years, I created unique tableware and decorative items for well-known restaurants, third-wave coffee shops, and private collections. I am a co-founder of Ukrainian contemporary ceramics brands: Pershozviri and Namir Studio. In May 2025, I opened my gallery in Kyiv called IRSAD eternal objects. I continue to work on creating new, modern, object designs in the medium of ceramics, embodying the depths of traditions in modern form. The connection with nature in creativity has always been important to me. The roots and depth hold the trunk of modernity and transform into a new, unique form of the future.
My works are in private and museum collections in Ukraine and worldwide: (USA, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, UK, Taiwan, France, Israel, UAE)
