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Andrei Prychodko (b July 18 1951) is a Swiss-Canadian artist working across a range of media in painting and relief sculpture. He has been active in Europe since 1971, mostly in Paris, Italy, and Switzerland. He has exhibited internationally, notably with the two historically significant galleries Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris (with whom he began to exhibit in 1980 through the introduction of the Gallery Beyeler of Basel) and Galerie Nathan in Zurich, as well as at Art, Basel known as “the Olympics of the Art World” etc.

The catalog of his work, published by Peter Nathan, is archived in the librairies of the: Louvre, Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, National Art Library, London, Tate Gallery, London, Kunsthaus, Zurich, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, National Museum/Moderna Museet, Stockholm, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Detroit Institute of Arts, USA, Yale University Library, USA, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, Museum of Applied and Contemporary Art, Vienna, Library of the Belvedere, Vienna, Central Institute for Art History of Germany, Munich, National Institute of Art History, Paris, New York Art Resources Consortium, New York, Institute of Art Sciences, Zurich, Etc His painting has been compared to the literature of Borges. The Encyclopedia of Ukraine refers to his work as combining calligraphic signs and symbols.