Yana Movchan

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=125 BGCOLOR="#996699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="040467d1erlcll.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>ArtOrg.net </B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ArtOrg.net "><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> back to<B>  </B>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=140 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div>                                                   </div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="id272.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Yana Movchan"><U>back to her ar</U></A>t</div> <div> <B>Yana Movchan</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="900" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 358 WIDTH="569"><div> Yanina (Yana) Movchan was born in Kiev in 1971. Yana’s sublime mastery of the technique and structure of Renaissance painting combines with the instinctive symbolism of “magical realism” to create a personal neo-realist idiom. Her work is formal yet also playful, contemporary yet timeless, joyous yet also mysterious, evocative, dreamlike. </div> <div> In Yana’s paintings the intellectual and the emotional synthesize to form images that touch the viewer’s heart whilst issuing a challenge. There are deeper meanings to be unraveled, hidden clues amongst the hyper-real still lives, portraits and animal scenes; meanings which echo deep in the viewer’s unconscious. Reviewers have compared Movchan’s work to Velasquez, Colville and Magritte.</div> <div> Yana trained at the Ukrainian Art Academy. Her Master’s thesis project (a triptych entitled “Life on Earth”) won the Golden Fund Prize, the Academy’s highest art award. Her work has featured in solo and group exhibitions in Ukraine, Prague, London and Canada. She is based in Halifax, Canada.</div> <bR> <div> Awards/Highlights </div> <div> 2007 Glenn Gould Foundation commission. Commemorative portrait of the celebrated pianist to mark the 75th anniversary of his birth</div> <div> 2001 Best Painting Award, Annual Juried Show, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition </div> <div> 1995 Golden Fund Prize (the highest art award in the Ukrainian Art Academy) for “Life on Earth” (triptych, oil on canvas)</div> <div> 1989 Ukrainian Art Academy Award of Excellence for "Thoughts of Harmony" (oil on canvas.) Painting accepted into the National Art Museum of Ukraine collection. “Thoughts on Harmony” received the highest possible marks and was later purchased by the Museum. </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="10b30e500.jpg" border=0 width="270" height="336" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <B>Outline:  </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>                                              </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>          </B></FONT></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="1063" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1140 WIDTH="786"><bR> <div> <B>Education:</B></div> <div> 1993-1995, Ukrainian Art Academy Kiev, Ukraine</div> <div> Masters of Fine Arts in Painting</div> <div> Thesis Project: "Life on Earth" a triptych consisting of three pictures, oil on canvass</div> <div> Achievements: "Life on Earth" was accepted by the Academy's Museum and placed into their Golden fund</div> <bR> <div> 1989-1993, Ukrainian Art Academy Kiev, Ukraine</div> <div> Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting</div> <div> Thesis Project: "Fantastic Animals", oil on canvas</div> <bR> <div> 1982-1989 Ukrainian Republican School of the Arts Kiev, Ukraine</div> <div> Diploma Project: "Thoughts of Harmony", oil on canvas</div> <div> Achievements: "Thoughts of Harmony", received the award of excellence and was accepted into the National Art Museum of Ukraine</div> <bR> <div> <B>Exhibitions:</B></div> <div> 2001, "Best of” an exhibition of 20 award winners from the 2001 T.O.A.E.</div> <div> First Canadian Place Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Canada</div> <bR> <div> 2001, Group Show dedicated to the Tenth Anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine,</div> <div> Svit Ozor Fine Arts, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.</div> <bR> <div> 2001, Annual Juried Show, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Toronto, Ontario, Canada,</div> <div> Best Painting Award, Sponsored by The Globe & Mail</div> <bR> <div> 2000 "Flowers"</div> <div> Svit Ozor Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.</div> <bR> <div> 2000, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Annual Juried Show</div> <div> Toronto, Ontario, Canada</div> <bR> <div> 2000, Annual Exhibition. Etobicoke City Hall Art Gallery</div> <div> Toronto, Ontario, Canada</div> <bR> <div> 1998, Solo Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario, Canada</div> <div> Sponsored by Art World of Sherway</div> <bR> <div> 1996, European Fair Kiev, Ukraine</div> <div> Sponsored by Laura Gallery</div> <bR> <div> 1995, Ukrainian Artists Exhibition, Prague former Czech Republic</div> <div> Sponsored by Art-In Form Gallery</div> <bR> <div> 1995, Solo Exhibition, Kiev, Ukraine</div> <div> Sponsored by Art-In Form Gallery</div> <bR> <div> 1994, The First Galleries Fair, Prague former Czech Republic</div> <div> Sponsored by Art-In Form Gallery</div> <bR> <div> 1994, Women in Art Kiev, Ukraine</div> <div> Sponsored by Slavutych Gallery</div> <bR> <div> 1994, The Young Artists' of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine</div> <div> Sponsored by "Molodist" -94 (Youth-94 )</div> <bR> <div> 1994, Artists of Eastern Europe, London, Great Britain</div> <div> Sponsored by The Mall Gallery</div> <bR> <div> 1989, The All Republic's Exhibition, Kiev, Ukraine at the National Art Museum of</div> <div> Ukraine</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="266"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1140" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="266" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>