1983
EXPO-83 «Man and His World», Montreal
born 29 October 1950, Petrykivka
Andrii Pikush
Head of the Centre of Folk Art «Petrykivka»
Decorations
2025 National Taras Shevchenko Prize, decorative and applied art
2013 People's Artist of Ukraine
2009 Order of Merit, third class
1981 Honoured Master of Folk Art of Ukraine
Badges: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Taught by
Vasyl Sokolenko
Taught
Oksana Pikush, and the masters of the Centre
Andrii Pikush was born in Petrykivka and learned the painting from Vasyl Sokolenko, Tetiana Pata's pupil. He worked at the Petrykivka painting factory in the early 1970s, and in 1991 he organised the creative association «Petrykivka», held by the folk masters themselves as co-owners. In 1998 that association and the experimental workshop merged into the Centre of Folk Art «Petrykivka», which he has headed since.
The Centre's masters were part of the campaign that carried Petrykivka painting to UNESCO. Ukraine entered it on its own National List in December 2012, an exhibition of more than ninety works by folk masters of the Dnipropetrovsk region opened at the European Parliament in Brussels on 29 January 2013, and that December the Committee inscribed it in Baku as Ukraine's first element on the Representative List.
In March 2025 he received the National Taras Shevchenko Prize, Ukraine's highest award in the arts, together with Maria Pikush, A. Karpets-Yermolaieva and N. Rybak, for the project the masters titled «Petrykivka painting: in defence of identity».
The record
Where the years went
- 1961–1965Petrykivka branch of the Dnipropetrovsk children's art school
- 1965–1969Dnipropetrovsk state art college, painting and pedagogy
- 1971–1974Painter at the «Petrykivka painting» factory
- 1972–1985Teaching, at the village school and then the children's art school
- 1974–1991The Experimental Workshop of the Dnipropetrovsk art-production combine
- 1991Organised the creative association «Petrykivka», with the folk masters as co-owners
- 2017Elected head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional organisation of the National Union of Artists
Named works
Pieces he titled himself
Listed in the reference literature. The site shows a work only once its author or family sends the image and the right to publish it.
- Veselka · 1972
- A set for halushky · 1974
- Sviatkove, a panel · 1975
- Tomatoes and peppers · 1976
Shown at
Where the work has travelled
1985
First solo exhibition, Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum
1986
Petrykivka painting in Poland — Warsaw, Gdańsk, Sopot
1993
Petrykivka painting in Canada — Winnipeg, Saskatoon
2000–2001
Chicago and Philadelphia, then the Ukrainian National Museum, Chicago
2003
Retrospective «The undimmed world of Petrykivka painting», National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art, Kyiv
2015
«My Petrykivka path», Zaporizhzhia Regional Art Museum
Taught
The masters he made
Nadiia Rybak, Maria Pikush, Valentyna Karpets and Valentyna Milenko all became Honoured Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine. Three of them stood beside him on the 2025 Shevchenko Prize.
His own work
Painted by Andrii Pikush
Wood, glass, ceramics and paper — the forms he is known for, as the Centre he heads shows them.
Rooster
Painted by Andrii Pikush
Andrii Pikush.
Birds in viburnum
Painted by Andrii Pikush
Andrii Pikush.
Sunflowers
Painted by Andrii Pikush
Andrii Pikush.
A bouquet
Painted by Andrii Pikush
Andrii Pikush.
Viburnum bush
Painted by Andrii Pikush
Andrii Pikush.
Grapes and birds
Painted by Andrii Pikush
Andrii Pikush.
A painted decanter set
Painted by Andrii Pikush
Andrii Pikush.
Painted vases
Painted by Andrii Pikush
Andrii Pikush.
Painted glassware
Painted by Andrii Pikush
Andrii Pikush.