Born 1944 in Kyiv. Lives and works in Lviv.
1971 - graduated from the Lviv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts (department of art ceramics).
Member of the Artists' Union of the USSR since 1986.
Since 1988 he works with "Ekspress-Avangard" association at the Soviet Cultural Foundation (established in 1986, Moscow, Russia).
1988-91 - participated in various exhibitions in the USSR and other countries.
Participated in more than 70 foreign and international projects, organized 25 personal exhibitions and projects in Ukraine, Poland, Austria and Germany.
"I am generally interested in the forms of creation and destruction, and on this verge - emergence of new forms, substances of new state."
Igor Yanovych
"Igor Yanovych is maitre of Ukrainian neo avant-garde, experienced "non figurative artist."
Alla Cherdyntseva, "Vechirni Visti"
"Texture plays an extremely important role in the artist's works."
Orest Holubets
"Yanovych's painting is an intuitive and imaginative phenomenon. Dictated by the inner nature, it opposes to conceptual games with the viewer, deduction of effects, engagement, provocation and shocking. It is an artistic act, directed not at the exterior, but at the interior world."
Inetta Hryniok, magazine "Suchasnist", 1999, №6
Selected exhibitions
2014
Flow, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
Interval, Lviv National Museum, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
2012
One work, The Literature-Memorial Museum to Mikhail Bulgakov, Kyiv
Warhol's Rodychi. Western Ukrainian Contemporary Art, Ya Gallery art center's special project within ART MOSCOW 2012, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Context, with photographer Maria Bykova, within the Parallel program of ARSENALE 2012, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Works On Paper, International Triennale of Painting of the Carpathian Region "Silver Qguadranle", Pshemyshl, Poland
2011
Lobotomy, with Anton Logov, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
The Ground, Cherkasy Art Museum, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Paper Wars, LITEXPO, Art Vilnius '11
Subjective Space, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
Context, Titanikas Exhibition Halls, Vilnius Academy of Arts, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Feel! Abstract Art vs Contemporary Music, Ya Gallery art center, Dnipropetrovsk, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
2010
Abstract Vision Test, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv, curated by Natalia Filonenko
Folk Contemporary. Landscape, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv, curated by Lidia Lykhach, Pavlo Gudimov
2009
Tuning, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Miniart, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Dialogue, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Context, for The Week of Contemporary Art 7, Primus Gallery, Lviv, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
New Art from Ukraine 7, project by Ya Gallery art center for ARTVILNIUS 09, Vilnius
2008
Mix, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
Horizontals, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
2007
Matter, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
Polychromes, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
2006
Painting, International Triennale of Painting of the Carpathian Region "Silver Quadrangle", Pshemyshl, Poland
2005
Monochromes, Ya Gesign gallery, Kyiv
2003
Works on paper, Ya Gesign gallery, Kyiv
Painting, International Triennale of Painting of the Carpathian Region "Silver Quadrangle", Pshemyshl, Poland
2002
Transformation, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
Landscapes, BWA Gallery, Poland
2001
Landscapes, BWA Gallery, Pshemyshl, Poland
2000
Landscapes 2, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
1999
Landscapes, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
Painting, International Triennale of Painting of the Carpathian Region "Silver Quadrangle", Pshemyshl, Poland
1998
Painting Touch, with Petr Lebedenets and Igor Yashchenko, Karas Gallery, Kyiv
1997
National Museum, Lviv
1995
Blank Art Gallery, Kyiv
1994
Triptych Gallery, Kyiv
Golizin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1992
Sovangard Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria
