Stetsko Vasyl Petrovych

Full Name:: Stetsko Vasyl Petrovych
Activity:: живописець-монументаліст
Date of birth:: Mar. 6, 1950

STETSKO Vasyl Petrovych (06. 03. 1950, Strilekivtsi village, Borshchiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast) — monumental painter, graphic artist. M. Boichuk Regional Prize (2016; for the series “Shevchenkiana”). Silver Medal of the I. Tselensky Society (Poznań, Poland, 2015). Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1994). Graduated from Odesa Art School (1976; instructors S. Lukin, V. Kirichek), Ukrainian Institute of Printing in Lviv (1991; instructors — V. Hurmak, Kh.-O. Sanotska). From 1976 worked as an artist at the Borshchiv Department of Culture; from 1978 — design artist at the Ternopil “Ukrpromkhudozh-oformlennia” Combine; from 1988 — monumental artist at the Ternopil Art and Production Combine of the Art Fund of Ukraine. From 1989 — participant in the “Ketiag” creative group of artists at the “Horyany” art and folklore collective (Lviv); from 2002 — head of the “Potik” creative association of artists at the Borshchiv Local History Museum. Author of the monumental murals “Forest Fairy Tale” for the kindergarten of the same name in Borshchiv, “In the Beginning Was the Word” for the Borshchiv Local History Museum, “Milking Season” for the Borshchiv Dairy Plant, “To Knowledge—To Light” for the Horoshiv Secondary School, “World of Letters” and “World of Numbers” for the Oleksyn Gymnasium, “Happy Childhood” for the Melnytsia-Podilska Secondary School, “Friendship” for the Skoviatyn House of Culture, “In the Rhythm of Cultures” for the Husiatyn House of Culture (all — Ternopil Oblast, 1982–89). From 1990, the main direction of creative activity became sacred art. Executed interior paintings for many religious buildings in Ternopil Oblast, particularly in the city of Kremenets (Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord), in the villages of Bilche-Zolote (Church of the Archangel Michael), Horoshiv (Church of St. Paraskeva), Dolyna (Church of the Holy Trinity), Darakhiv (Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos), Shyshkivtsi (Church of St. Nicholas), Zozulyntsi, Novoselka, Davydivtsi, Kuryany, and also in v. Komariv, Lviv Oblast; restored the iconostasis of the church in Borshchiv (2025). Participant in regional, zonal, and all-Ukrainian art exhibitions from 1985. Solo exhibitions — in Borshchiv (1979, 1990, 1995, 2005, 2010, 2015), Ternopil (1990, 1995, 2005, 2010, 2023), Burdiakivtsi (Ternopil Oblast, 2015, 2025); exhibited his works in Bad Tölz (Germany, 2005). From 2005 — permanent participant in plein airs in Ukraine and Poland. Some works by Stetsko are kept in the T. Shevchenko National Museum (Kyiv), Ternopil Art Gallery, Ternopil and Borshchiv Local History Museums.

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Major Works: zhyvopys — “Natiurmort iz svichkoiu” (1975), “Teplyi doshch” (1977), “Lisove ozero” (1980), “Liudochka” (1984), “Avtoportret” (1985), “Povnyi misiats” (1987), “Liuba”, “Marusia” (both — 1988), “Ridna melodiia (portret Oksany Boiko)” (1989), “Bilyi buzok”, “Borshchivskyi syluet” (both — 1990), “Vechirnia molytva” (1991), “Silskyi khram”, “Tserkva v dolyni”, “Buket z ikonoiu” (all — 1992), “Bohorodytsia” (1992–94), “Natiurmort iz knyhoiu”, “Rozryv chervonoi zavisy”, “Chyste dzherelo” (all — 1993), “Pokrova”, “Maty” (both — 1994), “Buzok”, “Pysanka” (both — 1996), “Snihova koroleva (Liliia)” (1998), “Ukrainochka”, “Nashi Berehyni” (both — 2003), “Ivan Mykolaichuk. Do 70-richchia” (2011), “Dochka Mariia” (2021), “Nash oberih” (2022); hrafika — “Uliana”, “Vesna”, “Divchynka” (all — 1986), “Lvivskyi dvir”, “Petropavlivka” (both — 1988); seriia litohrafii “Kobzari — Homery Ukrainy” (1991); rozpysy — “Bohorodytsia”, “Triitsia”, “Spasytel” u tserkvi s. Davydkivtsi (1999), na kupoli tserkvy v s. Shuparka (2008), “Zmiiebortsi” v tserkvi Preobrazhennia Hospodnoho v Krementsi (2017–18), “Koronuvannia Bohorodytsi” na frontoni tserkvy v s. Strilkivtsi (2019), u tserkvi sv. arkhystratyha Mykhaila v s. Bilche-Zolote (all — Ternopilska obl.).