Ivan Turetskyi

The artist was born on August 17, 1956 in Krasnoyarsk
(Russian Federation). He graduated from the Lviv Art College which was named
after I.Trush. In 1982, he graduated from the Lviv State Institute of Applied
and Decorative Arts (nowadays known as Lviv National Art Academy). He is a
member of the Union of Artists in Ukraine, and is also one of the founders and
members of the "Ukrainian Heraldry Society." 

He is the co-author of
the Coat of Arms of Ukraine, with awards and emblems from state and city
agencies. He worked for the Union of Ukrainian Philatelists in Austria and
created more than 60 projects. He participated in the development of the draft
cards to play in the category Vienna Melahge de Luxe for the firm Piatnik. He
was a member of the international open art fair.  His works are in private
collections in Europe and America.

His major exhibitions are as follows: A personal
exhibition in gallery "Artes" in Lviv, Ukraine, 1989.  Solo
exhibition at the Museum of Ethnography. Lviv, Ukraine, 1993. Artists of the
city. Freiburg, Germany, 1996. Art Festival. Kiev, Ukraine, 1996. Euro-Art.
Geneva, Switzerland, 1997. Euro-Art. Geneva, Switzerland, 1998.
 Personal exhibition in the salon-gallery Porsche Vienna, Austria, 2001.
Personal exhibition in the hall of the Coat of Arms in the Vienna City Hall.
Vienna, Austria, 2003. "Lviv Autumn Salon" Lviv, Ukraine, 2009.
 Kirovohrad Art Museum. Kirovograd, Ukraine, 2011. Odessa Art Museum. Odessa,
Ukraine, 2011. Museum of books and printing of Ukraine. Kiev, Ukraine, 2012.
The exhibition "Seasons," Café Gallery "Shtuka," Lviv,
Ukraine, 2013. Order of the National Bank of Belarus (coins)
"Zodiac," 2013. Plein Air. Lantsut, Poland, 2013. International Plein
Air in Kremenets (Ukraine) and Kazimierz Dolny (Poland), 2013. Permanent
exhibition in the gallery “Yana," Kyiv, 2012-2014. Solo exhibitions in Art
salon Veles 2015-2018, Lviv, Ukraine.  Solo
exhibition in gallery “Portal 11" 2019, Kyiv, Ukraine.