He was born in December 1938 in the village of Znamenivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
In 1961 he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Art School, and in 1967 from the Kyiv State Art Institute.
1997 — Laureate in the Artist of the Year nomination, "Golden Intersection".
1998 — Laureate of the Vasyl Stus Prize.
In 2009 - "DE PROFUNDIS" (From the DEPTH). "Art ARSENAL" Kyiv.
In 2012, Mykola Malyshko became the Laureate of the First Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art in the ARSENALE 2012 Discovery category.
In 2017, the winner of the Shevchenko Prize in the category "Visual Arts".
Lives and works in Kyiv region.
"Mykola Malyshko sets himself the task of recreating step by step the prophenomenon of culture, an idea of which we can form only from meager chronicles and distant reminiscences that we find in the folk carving tradition of Ukrainians."
Selected exhibitions
2018
Mykola Malyshko.Soul , Dnipro Art Museum, Dnipro.
2016
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors , Lviv Palace of Arts, Lviv
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors ,Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev
Distance , Ya Gallery Art Center, Kyiv
2015
Line, Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum
Clay, Ya Gallery art center, Dnipropetrovsk
Plain, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
2014
Ten Figures, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
To The Tree, Khmelnytsky Oblast Art Museum, Khmelnitsky
Pulse Of Africa, Ya Gallery art center, Dnipropetrovsk
Personal project, at the International Festival of Contemporary Art FIAT, Gallery Espace Croix-Baragnon, Toulouse, France
Reader, special project of Ya Gallery art center at the Fourth International Festival "Book Arsenal", Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2013
Projects of projects, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
Ukrainian slice. Lyman, Workshop Culture, Lublin
GRAND AND GREAT, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2012
Neofolk project, Ya Gallery art center's project within GOGOLFEST 2012, curated by Pavlo Gudimov
The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art ARSENALE 2012, Mystetskyi Arsenal, curated by David Elliott
2011
Scene I. Scene II, Ya Gallery art center, Dnipropetrovsk
The strength of the human mind: sculpture, painting, Museum of Modern Art of Ukraine, Kyiv
Sculpture, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
2010
Wood, together with Oleksandr Babak and Tamara Babak, Ya Gallery art center, Kyiv
Big Sculpture Salon - 2010, Ukrainian House, Kyiv
2009
Big Sculpture Salon - 2009, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
2005
Echo, Ukrainian House, Kyiv
Ukrainian Wood, Ukrainian House, Kyiv
2003
Decorative Art, Ukrainian House, Kyiv
2001
Sofia Being Symbols. Sofia National Preserve, Hlibnya
2000
National Pottery Symposium «Opishne -2000»
Project «Crossing», painting, sculpture. National artist union, Soros contemporary art centre, Kyiv
Project «White Crossing», painting, sculpture. National art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
1999
Color Environment, Soviart Gallery, Kyiv
Ukraine 99, Munich, Germany
1998
Rebirth, Christian motives in works of Kyiv modern, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv
Ukrainian Painting Trienalle, Kyiv
International Art Festival, Gold Cross nomination, Kyiv
Crossing, 36 Gallery, Kyiv
Presence, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv
1997
Wizard, Yava Gallery.
Moment, Art Museum, Vinniza
Spirit. Body. Mind, National Museum, Gerdan Gallery, Lviv
1996
Me You (Denusova, Malyshko). Painting, sculpture, «Triptych» Gallery, Kyiv
1995
Sculpture exhibition «Stup», Kyiv- Mohyla Academy, Kyiv
«Kunst in Ol» - Moderne Malarei aus der Ukraine. Bonn-Duisdorf, Germany
1994
Easter. Ukrainian House, Kyiv
1993
Farmstead, National Museum, Lviv
