Volodymyra Hankevych – unique Ukrainian master of textile. She experiments with modern technologies and materials, adds in abstract motifs in traditional textile.
She is participant of international and national exhibitions, author of many monumental pictures for government and office buildings in Ukraine, Russia, Byelorussia. She was born in 1955 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Member of Union of artists of Ukraine from 1990. Lives and works in Lviv.
Education:
1979 – graduated from the Lviv Academy of Arts.
Personal exhibitions:
2009 “Environment“ T. Silvashy, V. Bazhay, V. Hankevich, A. Bludov, V. Budnikov, V. Ralko, G. Vysheslavsky, gallery "Bottega", Kiev, Ukraine
2009 project "Opera", "Dziga", Lviv, Ukraine
2004 11-th International Triennial of Textile in Lodz, the Museum of Textile, Lodz, Poland
2003 "Experiments with the plane, texture, space and color", Ukrainian Institute of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1996 Gallery of the Institute of textile Kelley, Germany
1994 Lviv Picture Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
1993 "Other Europe", International trienalle artistic textiles, Tournai, Belgium
1992 Private Gallery, Detroit, USA
1992 Gallery Artists' Union of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
1991 National Museum, Lviv, Ukraine