Anatoliy Kryvolap

Anatoly Kryvolap (Анатолій Дмитрович Криволап, born 11 September 1946) is a Ukrainian artist, master of non-figurative painting. Full member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.

Anatoly Kryvolap is considered the most "expensive" modern artist in Ukraine. In 2011, at an auction in New York, the painting Steppe was sold for a record price for a Ukrainian painting.

Biography
In 1976 graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute, faculty of Painting.

From 1993 to 1995, Anatoly Kryvolap actively participated in the activities of the Picturesque Reserve, known in the history of modern Ukrainian art of the art group.

On February 9, 2012, became a laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine. Anatoly Kryvolap was awarded in Fine Arts nomination for his Ukrainian Motive cycle (which included 50 abstract landscapes).

Since December 2016 – Member of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize Committee of Ukraine.

In 2019–2023, he created murals for the restored Church of the Intercession in Lypivka, Makariv Raion, Kyiv Oblast.

Personal exhibitions

 * 1992 – Dontі Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany.
 * 1993 – D’art Gallery, Toulouse, France.
 * 1996 – Kaspari Gallery, Fürth, Germany.
 * 2000 – ARTEast Gallery, Kyiv.
 * 2000 – Sovі art Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv.
 * 2003 – Person Gallery, Kyiv.
 * 2004 – Karas Gallery, Kyiv.
 * 2005 – Karas Gallery, Kyiv.
 * 2006 – Sovі art Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv.
 * 2011 – "Landscape of the XXI Century". OntoArtGallery, Kyiv.
 * 2012 – "Ukrainian Motive". Mironova Gallery, Kyiv.
 * 2012–2013 – permanent exhibition in OntoArtGallery, Kyiv