Volodymyr Tsyupko was born on October 22, 1936 in the village of Yosypivka, Kirovohrad Oblast. He received his art education at the Odesa State Art School (1956-1961) and at the Leningrad Higher Art and Industrial School named after V. Mukhinoi (1964-1970, faculty of monumental and decorative painting).
Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1980). Member of the NAM National Association of Artists (1993). Honorary member of the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy". Member of creative association "Mamay" (1998). Honored Artist of Ukraine (2001). Lives and works in Odessa.
He started his creative and exhibition activities in the 1960s. He took an active part in unofficial "apartment" exhibitions in the 70s in Odessa and Moscow. Participant of the unofficial exhibition "Modern Art from Ukraine. Munich–London–New York–Paris” (1979). In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked in the field of easel painting and original graphics. He spends a lot of time and energy working on works of monumental and decorative art. Permanent member of the Artistic Council of the monumental painting shop. In the 1980s, he demonstrated his works at modern art exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad.
The works of Volodymyr Tsyupk are kept in the collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kyiv), the Museum of Modern Fine Arts of Ukraine (Kyiv), the Museum of Modern Art of Odessa, the Museum of Modern Art of Khmelnytskyi, the Odesa Art Museum, the Odesa Literary Museum, the Ivano-Frankivsk Art Museum, in the collections of the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Zimmerli Museum (New Jersey, USA), galleries NT-art (Odesa), "Karas", "Soviart" (Kyiv), Art-kafedra (Lutsk), in private collections in Ukraine and beyond its borders.
Personal exhibitions of the artist took place in 1993, 1996, 1999, 2007, 2009 in Odesa, in particular in the halls of the Museum of Western and Eastern Art, in the NT-art gallery, the Maritime Gallery, etc. In 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2006, works were presented in Kyiv in the halls of the National Art Museum, in the galleries "Karas", "Soviart", "Irena", etc.; in 1994 - in Ivano-Frankivsk; in 2000 – in Düren (Germany).
Selected group exhibitions: "Regional Exhibition", 1962 (Odesa); "Exhibition of works by Odessa artists", 1980, Split, Genoa; "Ukrainian-French meetings", 1994 (Kyiv-Hust); International Biennale "Impreza", 1989-1993, Ivano-Frankivsk; "Ukrainian painting of the 20th century", 1990, Kyiv; "Three generations of Ukrainian painting", 1990 (Kyiv); "Ukrainian painting, 1960-1880s", 1990 (Kyiv-Odense (Denmark)); "Artistic Impressions", 1994 (Kyiv); "4B", 1997 (Odesa); "Artclub-96", 1996, Khmelnytskyi; "Alsace-Ukraine", 1999 (Strasbourg); "International Biennial of Contemporary Graphics", 2001-2003 (Novosibirsk); "All-Ukrainian Painting Triennial", 2001, 2007, 2010 (Kyiv); "Media", 2002 (Odesa); "Odesa School Today", 2004 (Odesa); All-Ukrainian triennial of abstract painting "ART-AKT", 2010, 2019 (Chernivtsi); "Exhibition-competition of graphics named after H. Yakutovych", 2010 (Kyiv); exhibition "24+1", 2015 (Lutsk); "Artists of Odessa", 2015-2016 (Kherson, Mykolaiv); Graphic exhibition of the Mamai group, 2016, NT-art gallery (Odesa)
Volodymyr Tsyupko was awarded the 1st prize of the exhibition "Artclub-96", 1996, Khmelnytskyi; And the prize of the graphics exhibition-competition named after G. Yakutovych, 2010 (Kyiv); laureate diploma and award "For faithfulness to artistic principles" of the 1st All-Ukrainian triennial of abstract art "ART-AKT", 2010 (Chernivtsi); diploma of the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"; laureate of the exhibition "Ukrainian-French Meetings", 1994 (Kyiv-Khust); exhibitions "Autumn Salon "High Castle"", 1998, 1999 (Lviv); Municipal competition named after K. Kostandi, 2009 (Odesa)
2016 – a large-scale jubilee exhibition of Volodymyr Tsyupko in the halls of the Odesa National Art Museum
2017 - nomination of the artist by the National Union of Artists of Ukraine for the title of People's Artist of Ukraine
2019 - Grand Prix of the All-Ukrainian Painting Triennial
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