Sergiy Yakutovych

Artist (Ukraine)

Sergiy Yakutovych was born in1952 (Kyiv) in an artist’s family. The scope of his professional interests is broad: it includes iconography and easel graphic works, historical painting, and cinema. He created illustrative series for more than one hundred national and foreign books, as well as more than one hundred and fifty paintings. Besides, he was an art director of many films, such as “A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa” (directed by Y. Ilyenko), “When We Were the Cossacks”, “The Last Hetman”, “Occupational Safety for a TV-Viewer”, “Paradise Lost. Gogol” (directed by R. Plakhov-Modestov), “Taras Bulba” (directed by V. Bortko). Sergiy Yakutovych is a Honored Artist of Ukraine and an Associate Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts. His works were honoured on numerous international art competitions; he is a National Taras Shevchenko Award winner. Works of Sergiy Yakutovich are reposited in museums of Ukraine, Russia, France, Spain, Poland, Italy, and Germany.