Oleg Ivaschenko

Oleg was born in Krasnodar in 1981. In 2001, he graduated from the Krasnodar Art College, and in 2007, from the Mural Painting Department of the Vasily Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute where he studied under the tutelage of Evgeniy Maksimov. In 2021, Oleg Ivaschenko was elected Associate Member of the Russian Academy of Arts. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor at the Surikov Institute’s Department of Drawing.

Ivaschenko is a prolific mural and easel painter. The artist’s creative approach is based on transferring his real-life experience onto canvas to convey various meanings. Thoughtful and industrious, he starts out with numerous studies followed by charcoal drawings and only then turns to oil. Overall composition may change in the process, as the primary focus is on getting across the concept and mood. The artist insists that this is ultimately conditioned by neither technical prowess nor specific narrative, but rather a certain overarching objective.