Nazar Bilyk was born in Lviv, Ukraine in 1979. He graduated from the Boychuk Institute of Applied and Decorative Art and Design (Kyiv, Ukraine) in 1999 and from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Kyiv, Ukraine) in 2005. In the beginning of his artistic career Nazar won a contest for young Ukrainian artists MUHi (2010). Three years later he was awarded a President grant for his project "Counterforms". During the recent years he took part in numerous art shows in Ukraine and abroad. His sculptures were shown in Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Switzerland, USA.
Nazar Bilyk describes his artwork as an inner dialogue of a man with himself. He explores the boundaries of visible by means of sculpture, analyzes properties of the form and its interaction with space, experiments with different materials. Using materials like glass, bronze, steel and various polymers the artist creates surreal figures that shift perspectives and expectations. In his works he addresses to a human, exploring relations with society, environment and all natural world. Skillfully combining tradition and innovation, classical and experimental approach, the artist is looking for the definition of the very concept of "modern sculpture". Nazar’s works are diverse and polysemantic from both substantive and technological point of view.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2018 – «Imaginary Distances» Art Jamp Gallery
2018 – «Imaginary Distances» National Museum Kyiv art gallery
2014 – «Vessels» Bottegа Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 – «Counterform» Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011- «Spaces» Black Square Gallery, Miami, USA
2010 – «The borders of the space» Bottega Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2018 – «Conditional way» gallery Mytets, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018 – «Aurum of the place» Zenko gallery, Ukraine
2017 – «Oрen air» gallery Anieres, Switzerland
2017 – «Spaces» gallery La Cave, Geneva, Switzerland.
2017 – «Show promise», Lviv Palace of Arts, Ukraine
2016 – «Kylym» Contemporary Ukrainian artists “Yermilov centre” Kharkiv, Ukraine
2016 – «Kunst-und Film Biennale Worpswede» “Transformation. Evidence” Germany
2016 – «Recipe for Utopia» Мodern art research institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 – «Ukraine. Transformation der Moderne», Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Wien
2015 – «Dnepr Transformation» Artsvit Gallery, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
2015 – «Museum Collection. Ukrainian contemporary art 1985-2015 from private collections» Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2015 – «Recreation» BIRUCHIY Contemporary Art Project Irshansk, Ukraine
2015 – «The art of seeing» Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 – «Premonition: Ukrainian Art Now» Saatchi Gallery, London
2014 – «Ukrainian Landscape Beyond despair» Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 – «Auditions» HudPromo Art Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
2014 – «Space of Freedom» Yermilov centre, Kharkov, Ukraine
2013 – «Contemporary Ukrainian Artist» Saatchi Gallery, London
2013 – «Sculpture of Sculpture» Yermilov centre, Kharkov, Ukraine
2013 – «Industrial Eden» Мodern art research institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 – «BIRUCHIY» contemporary art project, Ukraine
2013 – «Great and Grand» Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 – «Ukraine today» Czech Republic with Shcherbenko Art center, Prague
2013 – «Terrain Orientation» National art museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
2013 – Grant of the President of Ukraine in field of fine arts «project Counterforms»
2012 – «Artist Draw A4, Ballpoint Pen» Каras Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 – Urban culture festival «I LOVE KYIV» Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 – «Artist Draw. A4, Ballpoint Pen» Каras Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 – «Triennial of Sculpture» Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 – «Out: Neurodiversity» Мuseum of modern art of Ukraine, Kyiv
2011 – «The Grand Sculptural Salon, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 – «Dream Catcher Contemporary Festival» Miami, USA
2010 – «MUHI» Мodern art research institute, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 – «The Grand Sculptural Salon» Ukrainian House, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 – «Triennial of Sculpture» Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 – «Triennial of Sculpture», Kyiv, Ukraine
ART FAIRS (SELECTION)
2018 – «Kyiv Art Week»
2018 – «Art palm beach» NewNow Gallery, Osorio Art Gallery
2017 – «Kyiv Art Weеk»
2016 – «ART 16 London» with Zenko Gallery
2015 – «Art Copenhagen» with Dymchuk Gallery
2015 – «Vilnius Art Fair» with Bottegа Gallery
2013 – «ART KYIV Contemporary» Mystetskyi Arsenal
2012 – «Miami International Art Fair» with Black Square Gallery
2011 – «Art Chicago» with Black Square Gallery
2011 – «SCOPE» with Black Square Gallery
2010 – «Budapest Art Fair» Art Hall, Budapest
