Alexander Diachenko

Ukrainian artist Alexander Diachenko was born in 1956 in Kyiv.
In 1967-1974 Diachenko studied at Kyiv Republican Art School.

In 1979 he graduated from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts.
Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
Lives and works in Kyiv.



Monumental works:



Memorial monument to academician Nikolai Amosov (joint project with Petro Antyp) Baikove cemetery, Kyiv, 2003

Fountain at the National Bank of Ukraine, Kyiv, 1995

Return of the Prodigal Son sculpture, Lviv, 1992

Monument to Holocaust victims, Kryve Ozero, Mykolaiv region, Ukraine (1992)

The Wall sculptural composition, Kharkiv, 1990




Awards:

First prize for design of the Monument to the Victims of Holodomor in Washington, DC, USA, 2009

Award for the best exposition, Great Sculpture Salon 2009, Kyiv

First prize at sculpture plein air for Return of the Prodigal Son, Lviv, 1992

First prize in sculpture at Renaissance International Festival, Lviv, 1991

Third prize at Youth of the Country All-Union Exhibition, Moscow, 1988

Third prize at sculpture plein air for Holidays at Seaside, Odesa, 1988

 

 

Selected exhibitions



2010


Great Sculpture Salon 2010, Ukrainian House, Kyiv



2009


De Profundis, Arsenal, Kyiv
Great Sculpture Salon 2009, Ukrainian House, Kyiv



2008


Alexander Dyachenko, Petro Antyp, a special project of ART-UKRAINE magazine, Akko International exhibition hall, Kyiv
Alexander Dyachenko, Triptych gallery, Kyiv



2007


Great Sculpture Salon 2007, Ukrainian House, Kyiv



2005


Sculpture Triennale, National Union of Artists of Ukraine exhibition hall, Kyiv



2000


Alexander Dyachenko, exhibition at the Youth Theatre, Chernihiv



1988


Alexander Dyachenko, exhibition hall at Kyiv Museum, Kyiv




Park sculptures:



2008


Mother and Child (limestone), Vyshhorod, Ukraine
The Woman on the Throne (limestone), Sedniv, Ukraine



2007


Plastic of Steppe (sandstone), Sviatohirsk, Ukraine



2006


Untitled (limestone), Donetsk, Ukraine



2005


Seated (limestone), Gurzuf, Ukraine
Torso (limestone), Brac island, Croatia



2004


Breeze (limestone), Brac island, Croatia



1996


Geometric Composition (sandstone), Olesko Castle, Lviv region, Ukraine



1994


Plastic Study on Ukrainian Archaic (marble), Kyiv



1992


Throne (sandstone), Horlivka, Ukraine
Female Figure (granite), Mykolaiv, Ukraine



1988


Holidays at Seaside (sandstone), Odesa, Ukraine
Cocoon (sandstone), Kyiv



1987


Girl (sandstone), Yampil, Ukraine



1986


Girl with a Turtle (wood), Trostyanets, Ukraine