Biography

Born in Kyiv in 1957.

1974 – graduated from T. H. Shevchenko Republican Art School
1984 – graduated from Kyiv State Arts Institute, monumental painting studio of M.A. Storozhenko and V.A. Chekaniuk.
1988 – A member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
Lives and works in Kyiv.

Personal exhibitions

2008 — Moscow International artistic show ”The Central House of Artists-2008”, the Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2008 — “O. Babak – painting”, “Triptych” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2007 — “Nude”, O. Babak, T. Babak, Pavel Gudimov Arts Center, ”Ya Gallery” Kyiv, Ukraine
2007 — “Ukrainian Motifs”, O. Babak, A. Kryvolap. The National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 — “O. Babak – painting”, “Triptych” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2006 — “Gurzuf”, “Atelier Karas” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2005 — Exhibition of painting, “Atelier Karas” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004 — Artistic decision of the project “Kozak Mamai, Ukrainian Folk Picture”, The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
2004 — “Tamara”, “Atelier Karas” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004 — “Letters from the East of Ukraine”, Ukrainian House Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2003 — “Retrospection, Graphic”, “Atelier Karas” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2003 — “The Selected”, Arts Development Assistance Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2002 — Project “KRAIE-VYD” (“Land-View”), The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
2002 — “Painting”,“Atelier Karas” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2000 – Project “Opishnia – plener”, “Soviart” center for Modern Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
1998 – Artistic project “Seven Exercises”, “Soviart” center for Modern Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
1998 – Artistic project “Parsuna”, The National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv
1997 – Artistic project “Re-constructions”, The National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv
1997 – “Retrospection”, “Atelier Karas” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
1995 – Exhibition-action, dedicated to the 100-th anniversary of M. Ryls’kyi’s birth,
1995 – The big stage of the National Opera House of Ukraine, Kyiv
1994 – “Pasture” together with O. Sukholit, Ukrainian House Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
1992 – “O. Babak, O. Borodai”, The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
1992 – “O. Babak, O. Borodai”, The Fine Arts Museum, Dnipropetrovs’k, Ukraine

Group exhibitions

2007 – International sculpture symposium “Steppe”, Donetsk, Ukraine
2007 – Painting plener “Gurzuf”, The Crimea, Ukraine
2007 – The 25-th International Kalish plener “Opatovek-06”, Kalish, Poland
2007 – Painting plener “Gurzuf”, The Crimea, Ukraine
2006 – Modern Arts Exhibition “Ternopil-06”, Ternopil, Ukraine
2005 – Painting plener “Gurzuf”, The Crimea, Ukraine
2004 – “Farewell to Army, Modern Ukrainian Arts”, “Arsenal,” Kyiv, Ukraine
2004 – The 4-th all-Ukrainian Modern Arts Exhibition “Ternopil-04”, Ternopil, Ukraine
2002 – “Pictorial Reserve Landschaft”, The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
1999 – IV International Art Festival, Ukrainian House Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
1999 – Exhibition “Syto Druk” (“Sieve Press”), ”Triptych” Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
1999 – “Art from Kyiv”, Magdeburg, Germany
1998 – International Graphic Triennial, Cracow, Poland; Nuremberg, Germany
1998 – Painting Triennial, The National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
1998 – Non-figurative Painting Biennial. Ukrainian House Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
1998 – “Ukrainian Art in the XX Century.” Ukrainian House Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
1997 – “Peer Gynt”, Norway
1997 – International Graphic Triennial “97-Cracow”, Cracow, Poland
1997 – Project “Authentic Longing”, II International Art Festival, T.H. Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
1997 – Project “Photo…synthesis”, The National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
1996 – International Art Festival “Ukrainian Classical Avant-garde and Modern Arts”, Ukrainian House Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
1997 – Triennial “Khutor-2” The Museum of Contemporary Arts, Khmel’nyts’kyi, Ukraine
1995 – Action “Plener”, Art Gallery of “Slavutych” Art center, Kyiv, Ukraine
1995 – “Consumenta-95”, Nuremberg, Germany
1995 – Symposium-action “Reconstructions”, Leikov village, Shishatskyi district, Poltava Region, Ukraine and archeological dig of the Greek Settlement
1995 – “Olvia”, Parutyne village, Ochakiv district, Mykolajiv region, Ukraine
1995 – Biennial “Pan-Ukraine”, Exhibition Hall of the Dnipropetrovs’k organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovs’k, Ukraine
1995 – International Graphic Triennial-94, Krakow, Poland
1994 – “Syntheses Slavutych-94”, Art Gallery of Art Center ”Slavutych”, Kyiv, Ukraine
1994 – “Ukrainian-French Meetings”, Ukrainian House Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
1993 – “Art Impressions”, Ukrainian House Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
1993 – “Family Tree”, Ukrainian House Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
1993 – “Ukrainian Up-to-Dateness”, Ukrainian House Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
1993 – “Ukrainian Art”, Toulouse, France
1993 – “Pictorial Plastic”, The State Museum of Fine Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine
1993 – “Group-90”, The “PALFFI” Palace, Vienne, Austria
1993 – “The Snov-93”, The Kyiv organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
1992 – “Free Ukraine Art”, Kyiv, Ukraine-London, Great Britain International Installation Symposium “Laboratorium”, Preshov, Slovakia
1991 – Ukrainian Fine Arts Biennial“, Lviv-91-Rebirth”, Lviv, Ukraine
1991 – “Unity”, Exhibition of the creative associations “Shliakh” (“The Way”) and “Pohliad” (“The Look”), Lviv-Kyiv, Ukraine
1990 – “Contemporary Ukrainian Art”, Kyiv, Ukraine
1990 – “Ukrainian Painting of the XX Century”, Kyiv, Ukraine
1990 – “Three Generations of Ukrainian Painting” Kyiv, Ukraine – Odense, Denmark
1990–1989 – “21 Looks” Munich, Germany – Odense, Denmark
1989 – International Biennial “Impression-89” Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine
1989 – Exhibition of the creative association “Pohliad”, Warsaw, Poland – Berlin, Germany
1988 – Exhibition of the creative association “Pohliad”, Belgrade, Yugoslavia – Prague, Czechia
1988 – Exhibition in the representatives of Ukraine in the USA. New York, the USA
1988 – “Dialogue through the Centuries”, KPI, Kyiv, Ukraine
1988 – “Sednev – 88”, The Kyiv organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
1988 – Exhibition-contest of painting“The World, the Events, a Person”, Kyiv, Ukraine
1988 –All-Union youth exhibition, The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1987 – “Country’s Youth”, Kyiv, Ukraine
1986 – “Pictorial Ukraine”, Kyiv, Ukraine
1985 – “The World and the Youth”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1985 – Fine Arts of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1983 – All-Union Portrait Exhibition “Our Contemporary”, The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia