Zhyvotkov Oleksandr

Oleksandr Zhyvotkov is a Ukrainian artist who lives and works in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

He studied at the Taras Shevchenko Republican Art School from 1975 to 1982. Zhyvotkov graduated from Kyiv State Art Institute (1982—1988, Kyiv, Ukraine). Since 1992 Oleksandr Zhyvotkov is a member of the art group Picturesque sanctuary; participant of the Ukrainian New Wave.

Oleksandr Zhyvotkov was born on March 31, 1964, in Kyiv in a creative family that lived on the then Heroes of the Revolution Street (now – Tryokhsviatytelska), near St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery.

He lives and works in his hometown – the Ukrainian capital. He began to receive the basics of art education before entering the Taras Shevchenko Republican Art School in 1975 (graduated in 1982) – in the family (he is a fifth-generation artist), where his father and older brother are artists, as well as in the environment.

According to Oleksandr Zhyvotkov, his creative mentor and teacher was his uncle – artist Mikhail Rudakov. He graduated in 1988 and received a diploma of higher education at the Faculty of Scenography of the Kyiv State Art Institute) during perestroika. His teacher was Oleksii Bobrovnikov.