Les Panchyshyn

Les Panchyshyn is a Ukrainian artist, photographer, music video maker, sculptor.

Biography
Les Panchyshyn was born on October 26, 1991, in the town of Novyi Rozdil, Lviv region. When he was 7 years old, the family moved to Lviv, where he went to first grade. At the same time, he attended music school (violin).

As a teenager, Les was looking for ways to express himself in different ways. He attended a folk dance class, was engaged in painting and sculpture.

In 2000, he entered the Oleksa Novakivskyi Lviv Children's Art School. He was always fond of football and in 2003 he started playing for the ENERGY sports club. In 2006 he entered the Ivan Trush Lviv State College of Decorative and Applied Arts, majoring in artistic ceramics (headed by Taras Levkiv).

In 2008, he finished playing professionally for SC ENERGY (mini-football).

In his first year of study, he became interested in photography and in 2007-2008 began to participate in collective exhibitions of photographs, as well as organized personal ones. In 2009, he took part in and won a photo contest organized by Ukrsotsbank.

In his third year, he took up painting seriously and transferred to the appropriate direction, and also began to study the basics of video filming and editing. In 2010, Les Panchyshyn won the painting competition "Lviv through the eyes of young people".

In 2011, after graduating from the Trush College, Les Panchyshyn entered the Lviv National Academy of Arts, where he continues to improve as an artist.

2012-2015
From 2012 to 2014, Les Panchyshyn was a member of SLAVA FROLOVA GROUP, one of the largest curatorial companies for young artists in Ukraine.

In 2012, Les Panchyshyn became interested in video art and started working on music videos for young Ukrainian artists. Les shot videos for Olesya Kyrychuk, rock bands Rock-H, Patricia, Panchyshyn, Svitlana Tarabarova, "Yariko", "Natalka Karpa" Worked on concert videos for the bands Antitela, Piccardian Tertsia, Tartak, Komu Vnyz, Gapochka, Shadow of the Sun, Vivienne Mort"

Les Panchyshyn is the author of social advertising commissioned by the Staryi Lev Publishing House, the ShchedreEtno festival, and the magazine about successful Ukrainians TheUkrainians.org.

2016
In 2016, he moved to Kyiv. Participant of many group and personal exhibitions in Ukraine and in the US, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium.

2017-2020
Since 2017, he became interested in music and was a member of the band "Panchyshyn".

In 2017 and 2018, he illustrated two books by Vydavnytstvo Staryi Lew. He illustrated 2 books. "That is Lviv" in 2017 and "Winter King" in 2018.

In 2017, he curated two plein airs that took place at the Edem Resort & Spa. Also, afterwards, an exhibition was held in the Edem art space. There is a video of the first plein air on YouTube. Also this year, he is a member of the public organization "VILNI". With which the "Art Cube" project was implemented. It was presented in several cities of Ukraine.

In 2020, Les Panchyshyn Gallery organized a plein air at the Grand Hotel Lviv. Artists from all over the country were invited. Upon completion, all the paintings were presented at Les Panchyshyn Gallery in Kyiv. Kyiv.

2021-2022
2021 Personal exhibition at the Ukrainian National Museum (Chicago). 2021 collaboration with a Ukrainian brand that creates clothing collections. Overall.ua - overalls with a print of the painting were presented at Ukraine fashion week. A collaboration with Kovtok drinking water was released.

2021 Cooperation with DTEK. A joint social project called "Lelechenki" developed and created two sculptures that are installed in Kyiv (VDNH) and Odesa (Park of Glory).

In 2021 he received the "Best new exhibitor" at Miami Art week. He took part in a charity tour organized by the Revived Soldiers Ukraine foundation. More than 13 concerts were organized in different cities of the United States where the paintings were sold. The funds were used for the treatment and prosthetics of our military. 13 paintings were donated. Participated in a charity auction organized by the ARTSY Gallery (N.Y.)

In 2022–2023, after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I began selling the paintings I had in stock. More than 20 paintings were sold and all the money was transferred to various charities (Come Back Alive, Prytula Foundation) in the first days about 150 thousand hryvnias were transferred. Also to the military hospital at the TRO.

2023
Opening of the sculpture in Irpin. The name of the sculpture is "Light will conquer the darkness" (cooperation with Dtek). For the received fee, a drone was bought for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and sent.

Opened a personal project at the Ritz Hotel (Miami).

He was represented at the Picadilloart Gallery (Miami).

Presented the project "Ukraine Forever" at the public event of the mayor of Sunny Isles Beach(Miami) Upon completion, the paintings were transferred to the mayor's office and are exhibited there.

The auction was organized by the charity organization All hands and Heart. The painting titled New Hope was sold for $17,000. The funds were used to rebuild Ukrainian cities. This was done by the Save Ukraine center (Miami, USA).

Participated in the exhibition "Hope for the lights" in Vienna, Austria.

He made a joint project with Ivan Marchuk in the Barbareum art space (Vienna, Austria).

Participant: Pop up exhibition Vienna city gallery walk (galerie Amart); "Milk and Blood" participant of the exhibition (Estonia); "Hope for the lights" Unlimited Academy. Vienna, Austria; Affordable Art fair (New York) Bruce Lurie Gallery; Hampton art fair (New York) Bruce Lurie Gallery.

Education
- Lviv Children's Art School named after O. Novakivskyi

- Lviv State College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after Ivan Trush

- Lviv National Academy of Arts

- Art Students League of New York

List of exhibitions

 * 2023 - opening of the sculpture in Irpin. The name "Light will conquer the darkness" (cooperation with the company Dtek) for the fee received, a drone was bought for the Armed Forces and sent.
 * 2023 - presented at the Hampton art fair (New York)
 * 2023 - presented at the Affordable Art fair (New York)
 * 2023 - solo project "Hope for the lights" Unlimited Academy (Austria)
 * 2023 - participant in the exhibition "Milk and Blood" (Estonia)
 * 2023 - participation in the exhibition "Hope for the lights" Vienna (Austria)
 * 2023 - personal project at the Ritz Hotel (Miami)
 * 2023 - presented at the Picadilloart Gallery (Miami)
 * 2023 - a joint project with Ivan Marchuk in the art space Barbareum (Vienna, Austria), curated by Artptashka.
 * 2023 - presented the project "Ukraine Forever" at the public event of the mayor of Sunny Isles (Miami)
 * 2022 - participant of Art Basel Miami. Solo participant at "Spectrum" art fair (Miami, USA).
 * 2022 - participant of Iko-art Gallery. Group exhibition "Devils Party" (Vienna, Austria).
 * 2022 - participant in "Parallel Vienna" fair (Vienna, Austria).
 * 2022 - participant of the Group exhibition "Mariupol Vivre" (Paris, France).
 * 2022 - participant of Iko Gallery. Private show "Save Cultural Identity" (Vienna, Austria).
 * 2022 - participant of Black Tower Gallery. Group exhibition "Fashion and Design" (Miami, USA).
 * 2022 - participant of the Black Tower Gallery. Solo exhibition "Ukraine Forewer" (Miami, USA).
 * 2021 - participant of the Group exhibition "Dubai Expo 2020" Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
 * 2021 - participant of Art Basel Miami. Awarded participant at "Spectrum" art fair "Be Exhibitor 2021" (Miami, USA).
 * 2021 - personal exhibition at the Ukrainian National Museum (Chicago)
 * 2021 - participant in a charity auction organized by the ARTSY gallery (N.Y.)
 * 2020 - plein air at the Grand Hotel Lviv
 * 2020 - personal exhibition "Portal" at the Ukrainian National Museum, Chicago, USA.
 * 2019 - participant of the Silk Road project in Shanghai, China.
 * 2018 - participant of the exhibition "Winter art show & sale" Ukrainian National Institute of America, New York, USA.
 * 2018 - personal exhibition "Art design" Sobi Home. Kyiv, Ukraine.
 * 2018 - personal exhibition "Moving Forward" Ukrainian National Institute of America, New York, USA.
 * 2018 - personal exhibition "Warming" at the Ukrainian National Museum, Chicago, USA.
 * 2017 - project "Ukrainian Days in Europe" Paris, France
 * 2017 - participant of the project "Lumen" Litvinova Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
 * 2017 - curator, participant of the project "My Eden" Eden Resort, Lviv, Ukraine.
 * 2017 - participant of the project "Art-cube" Lviv, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi,
 * 2017 - resident of the art foundation "Free"
 * 2017 - participant of the project "Fetish XO" Act, Kyiv, Ukraine.
 * 2017 - participant of the project "Thinking about Tomorrow" Act, Kyiv, Ukraine.
 * 2017 - participant of the project "1/5" Litvinova Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
 * 2017 - participant of the project "Non stop art" Litvinova Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
 * 2017 - personal exhibition "Movement Forward" Brussels, Belgium.
 * 2016 - Personal exhibition - Kyiv "WARMING" UNLIMITED ART FOUNDATION.
 * 2016 - Personal exhibition - Lviv "WARMING" Zefirina Art gallery.
 * 2016 - Personal exhibition - Kyiv. "Commonalities", Y. Grether Art Center, Kyiv
 * 2016 - Toronto, Canada "Ukraine EXISTS"
 * 2016 - Personal exhibition - Kharkiv, Municipal Galleryref>Мандрівна виставка молодих миcтців утверджує Україну
 * 2016 - Presentation of paintings, dialog. Obnova, Lviv.
 * 2016 - Participant of the project "Ukraine EXISTS" USA, Whippany (New Jersey)
 * 2016 - Participant of the project "Ukraine EXISTS", USA, New York.
 * 2016 - Participant of the exhibition "Ukraine. Transformations of the Modern "Vienna, Austria.
 * 2016 - Participant of the exhibition Cocon Art Space, Odesa.
 * 2016 - Personal exhibition - Art Studio Passage, Lviv.
 * 2016 - Presentation of the project CheLOVEkas. Kyiv.
 * 2015 - Participant of the project "Feldman Art Park'15, Kharkiv.
 * 2015 - Personal exhibition. Lviv.
 * 2015 - Personal exhibition. project CheLOVEky. Kyiv.
 * 2015 - Gogol Fest 2015, Kyiv.
 * 2015 - Personal exhibition "2 minutes for coffee" at the Prints Exhibition, Lviv.
 * 2015 - Personal exhibition and lecture about the work of Les Panchyshyn. Odesa.
 * 2015 - Personal exhibition. project CheLOVEky, Ivano-Frankivsk.
 * 2015 - participant of the exhibition within the framework of the "Book Arsenal-2015", Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
 * 2015 - Personal exhibition "2 minutes for coffee", Dnipro.
 * 2014 - Personal exhibition "Strength" Ternopil.
 * 2014 - Exhibition (presentation of the catalog Les Panchyshyn) Lviv.
 * 2014 - participant of the exhibition of young Ukrainian art, gallery EVARTSPASE, Geneva
 * 2014 - participant of the exhibition within the framework of the "Book Arsenal-2014", Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
 * 2014 - participant of the exhibition "Civil Mysticism". Museum of Contemporary Art. Kyiv
 * 2014 - It's not ok. Personal exhibition. Black Lizard. Dnipro.
 * 2013 - participant of the exhibition - Slava Frolova Group. Art Picnic: Opening at VDNKh. Labyrinth. Heritage. Group exhibitions. Kyiv.
 * 2013 - participant of the exhibition - Slava Frolova Group. In the face of chance. Group exhibition in the Palace of Arts. Lviv.
 * 2013 - participant of the exhibition "Spring from young artists of Ukraine". Group exhibition at the New Gallery. Kyiv.
 * 2013 - participant of the exhibition Exhibition of young artists of Ukraine. Group exhibition at the Museum of Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine. Kyiv
 * 2013 - participant of the exhibition, Slava Frolova Group. Opening of the west wing. Group exhibition in the art space Lemish.
 * 2013 - participant of the exhibition. Group exhibition at the Strike club. Kyiv.
 * 2013 - participant of the Slava Frolova Group exhibition. Opening of the south wing. Group exhibition. Odesa.
 * 2013 - The whole forest. Personal exhibition. Bookstore E. Ivano-Frankivsk.
 * 2012 - Without Title. Personal exhibition. Art space Gallery 24. Lviv.
 * 2012 - Personal exhibition. Art coffee shop Dzyga. Lviv.
 * 2012 - Participant of the exhibition Ocean Plaza opening. Group exhibition in Boutique Café. Kyiv.
 * 2011 - participant of the exhibition art contest of Ukrsotsbank "Lviv through the eyes of young people";
 * 2010 - participant of the exhibition "Lviv through the eyes of young people" in the art contest of Ukrsotsbank;
 * 2009 - Personal exhibition in the walls of the Lviv Art and Design Museum named after I. Trush, Lviv
 * 2008 - Personal photo exhibition in the walls of the Lviv Art and Design Institute named after I. Trush, Lviv

Family
Father - Orest Panchyshyn - musician, former member of the band "Plast" (now plays in the band "Patricia"), performs as a session musician.

Mother Iryna Panchyshyn is a musician and poet.

Brother - Ostap Panchyshyn - singer, composer, leader of the musical project PANCHYSHYN.

Wife - Anna Panchyshyn

Children - daughter Maria Lazebna, son Leonardo Panchyshyn.