The Road to the Cathedra, 2025

Pavlenko Leonid  

Born on April 23, 1970 in the village. Bondarivka, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine.

1983-1985 – student at the children's art school in Korosten (teacher L. Baranovskaya)
1985-1990 – started at the Odessa State Art School. M.B. Grekova
1996-2002 – started at the National Academy of Creative Arts and Architecture (professors O.M. Lopukhov, G.M. Yagodkin)
2002-2005 – internship in creative masters of assistant studies at the Ukrainian Academy of Creative Arts and Architecture (Professor V.I. Gurin)
2003 – member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine
2005 – Master of Painting

The artist's works are in the National Academy of Creative Art and Architecture, the Zaporizhia Regional Art Museum and private collections in Ukraine, the USA, Bulgaria, Germany, and Israel.

Participant in over 120 art exhibitions.

Pavlenko Leonid Vasyliovych is a well-known Ukrainian artist who perfectly masters all painting tools and techniques, has a significant creative output in the field of painting. A talented artist who in his work continues and develops the best traditions of the Ukrainian school of painting. Leonid Pavlenko acts as an artist who has a subtle sense of color and color. He always sets himself the task of performing a work that is unique in terms of composition, formal solution, and internal state. His works have a particularly weighty sound due to confident lines and relaxed construction of the composition, harmony of rhythms and color accents.

The artist pays a lot of attention to landscape painting. In recent years, he created a gallery of urban landscapes, worked for more than ten years on Crimean and Carpathian landscapes, admires the views of his small Motherland - Polissia. The landscapes painted by him fill the viewer with the beauty of the surrounding world: "Winter" (1994), "Whisper of Carpathian Grass" (2005), "In March" (2007), "Morning on the Ros River" (2008), "On Khortytsia » (2016).

Still life occupies one of the prominent places in the artist's work. The variety of plots covers the objective world, which necessarily accompanies a person and characterizes him in many ways: "Still Life with a Firebird" (2000), "Brushes" (1994), "Cosmack's Sack" (2007), "Saving Apples" (2008), "Chronobryvtsi" (2011), "Mother's Handkerchief" (2011).

Leonid Pavlenko is a participant in more than 120 art exhibitions (All-Ukrainian, city and foreign). Takes an active part in art projects, creative actions, in particular, was awarded a diploma for active participation in the All-Ukrainian project "Ukrainians in the World", which represents outstanding figures born in Ukraine who played an important role in the creation of world civilization (Kyiv, Ukrainian House , 2009); "Ukraine from Tripillia to the present in the images of modern artists, dedicated to the revolution of dignity and the Patriotic War of 2014-2015..."; All-Ukrainian cultural and artistic project for the 25th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine (Kyiv, exhibition halls of the NSHU, 2016).

The artist was awarded honorary diplomas and diplomas of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and Diplomas of the Ukrainian Culture Fund for his significant contribution to the development of culture and art. For teaching work at the Kyiv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Art and Design named after M. Boychuk was awarded with diplomas of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine. His students became winners many times and received various awards at city and All-Ukrainian student painting competitions.

Leonid Vasyliovych has repeatedly participated in charity exhibitions aimed at supporting the defenders of the Motherland ("The first All-Ukrainian painting plein air in support of the defenders of the Motherland "To you, Mother of God! Zarvanytsia - 2015", Charity auction of the Zoo "12 months" in support of the "Lisova Zastava" orphanage, 2015 ).

The artist's works are in the Zaporizhia Regional Art Museum, the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, as well as in private collections of Ukraine, Russia, Poland, France, the USA, and China.

Main exhibitions:

1994 – “Malyovnicha Ukraine", m. Uzhgorod
1995 – All-Ukrainian art exhibition dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the people of B. Khmelnitsky, Kiev
1997 – All-Ukrainian Art Salon, Kiev
1999 – “Autumn Salon", Central Bank of Chemistry, Kiev
1999 – personal exhibition “Crime-Carpathia", Kiev
2000 – “Youth Exhibition", Kiev
2000 – All-Ukrainian art exhibition up to the 200th anniversary of the Nativity of Christ, Kiev
2000 – Congress of Young Mitzvos, “Plein Air Carpathians-2000"
2001 – Congress of Young Mitzvos, “Plein Air Simeiz-2001"
2001 – exhibition “Malyovnycha Ukraine", Ivano-Franuivsk metro station
2002 - exhibition “Malyovnycha Ukraine", Donetsk
2002 - exhibition “Malyovnycha Ukraine", Donetsk
2002 – personal exhibition “The Fall of Spring", NAOMA Museum, Kiev
2002 – “Youth Exhibition", Kiev
2003 - Congress of Young Mitzvos, “Plein Air Sedniv"
2003 – exhibition with students of NAOMA, Ivano-Frankivsk region
2004 – All-Ukrainian autumn art exhibition, Kiev
2005 – exhibition “Kiev Suite", Kiev
2005 – exhibition “Malyovnycha Ukraine", Poltava
2006 – exhibition “Ukraine from Tripillia to the present day in the images of contemporary artists", Kiev
2006 – exhibition “Kiev Painting", m. Kiev
2006 – personal exhibition together with M. Orlova, metro Kiev
2006 – personal exhibition, Zhitomir
2007 - All-Ukrainian art exhibition “Rizdvyana", Kiev
2007 - personal exhibition together with M. Orlova, m. Chernihiv
2007 - personal exhibition at Repin Gallery, Beijing, China
2008 - exhibition “Ukraine from Tripillia until today in the images of contemporary artists", m. Kiev
2088 – ART-KIIV 2008, m. Kiev
2009 - All-Ukrainian autumn art exhibition, Kiev
2010 - All-Ukrainian art exhibition “Rizdvyana", Kiev
2011 - All-Ukrainian spring art exhibition, Kiev
2011 – International plein air “Dnipro Day"
2011 – exhibition “Dnipro... Might and Eternity", Kiev
2011 – exhibition “Glory to Galicia", m. Ternopil
2012 – international plein air and exhibition “Frumushika-Nova", Odessa
2012 – 18th All-Ukrainian Plein Air, Smt. Verkhovyna
2012 – exhibition “Beauty of the Carpathians", Ivano-Frankivsk metro station
2013 – personal exhibition, Kiev
2013 – exhibition of paintings “2002+11", Kiev
2013 - All-Ukrainian art exhibition dedicated to Ch. Aitmatov, Kiev
2014 - personal exhibition together with M. Orlova, Kiev
2014 - All-Ukrainian art exhibition “Rizdvyana", Kiev
2014 - personal exhibition together with M. Orlova, Kiev
2014 - All-Ukrainian art exhibition dedicated to the 200th anniversary of T. G. Shevchenko, Kiev