IHOR MELNYK
Ihor Melnyk is a Ukrainian artist working in the field of contemporary painting and abstract landscape. He was born in 1985 in Stryi, Lviv Region, Ukraine, where he currently lives and works.
In his artistic practice, Melnyk explores nature, space, memory, and the inner states of human experience. His paintings are not literal representations of reality, but rather emotional and visual reinterpretations of it. Through colour, texture, rhythm, and composition, the artist develops a distinctive visual language in which the landscape is transformed into an abstract image.
In 2004, he graduated from the Stryi Art College, and in 2010, from the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
Since 2006, Ihor Melnyk has been a member of the artistic association “Stryi-KO”, and since 2013, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
In 2020, he was awarded the Petro Obal Painting Prize.
Melnyk’s works are included in the collections of the Cherkasy Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art and the Mykola Babak Foundation. His works are also represented by Goldens Auction House in Kyiv.
The artist’s paintings are held in private collections in the United States, Greece, Germany, France, Japan, and Ukraine.
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A painting about a space perceived not as a specific place, but as an inner territory of memory and presence. At the center of the composition is a dark, almost silent space, enclosed by an intense red form resembling a portal, an arch, or a sacred sign.
Here, red becomes the main emotional accent — speaking of strength, life, memory, and the sacred. Through the central opening, a distant fragment of landscape appears, as if revealing another dimension of space.
The textured surface, layers of paint, and visible traces of movement create a sense of time accumulated on the canvas. “Sanctuary” is not a depiction of a particular sacred place, but an image of a place that a person carries within themselves.
IHOR MELNYK
Ihor Melnyk is a Ukrainian artist working in the field of contemporary painting and abstract landscape. He was born in 1985 in Stryi, Lviv Region, Ukraine, where he currently lives and works.
In his artistic practice, Melnyk explores nature, space, memory, and the inner states of human experience. His paintings are not literal representations of reality, but rather emotional and visual reinterpretations of it. Through colour, texture, rhythm, and composition, the artist develops a distinctive visual language in which the landscape is transformed into an abstract image.
In 2004, he graduated from the Stryi Art College, and in 2010, from the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
Since 2006, Ihor Melnyk has been a member of the artistic association “Stryi-KO”, and since 2013, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
In 2020, he was awarded the Petro Obal Painting Prize.
Melnyk’s works are included in the collections of the Cherkasy Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art and the Mykola Babak Foundation. His works are also represented by Goldens Auction House in Kyiv.
The artist’s paintings are held in private collections in the United States, Greece, Germany, France, Japan, and Ukraine.
