Ruslan Malets

Ruslan Malets was born on April 17, 1981 in Horodok, Khmelnytskyi region. He started painting in his early childhood. He made his first works of art on wallpaper. In 1996, he entered the Kosiv College of Applied and Decorative Arts, specializing in artistic painting, and graduated in 2000. Then he studied for a year at the Ivan Trush Lviv State College of Decorative and Applied Arts. For four more years he studied at the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts (Department of Art Glass). After graduation, Ruslan worked as a glass artist for several years. He made stained glass windows in the Tiffany and Fusing styles. The artist also had experience in church painting and stone engraving. But he started painting only in 2019. At first, he depicted his ideas on canvases, and then on wooden boards that once served as fences. For several years now, the artist has been making tablets out of them and thus giving the old wood a second life. Ruslan Malets became famous for his paintings on the boards. Today, his works of art can be seen in leading galleries in Ukraine. They are also kept in private collections in France, Latvia, Italy, and Germany. The artist also participates in group and solo exhibitions. In his works, Ruslan Malets reveals various problems of our time. Mostly of an environmental, psychological, theological, and recently political nature. He has created a series of works on the theme of war. In it, the artist told the world about pain and loss, as well as about the willpower of Ukrainians and the indomitable spirit of the Ukrainian people.

Personal exhibitions 2022 G-Museum "Putin-kaput", Horodok, Khmelnytskyi region, "Ukraine" 2007 "Extreme House" Gallery, Lutsk, "Ukraine" Group exhibitions 2022 "...And rise", Art project, Lavra gallery, dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Kyiv, "Ukraine" "Catching the Elusive Bird", The All-Ukrainian exhibition is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of his birth Hryhoriya Skovorody, Poltava, "Ukraine" "The world through the eyes of artists", All-Ukrainian exhibition for the artist's day of Ukraine, Kyiv, "Ukraine" "Faces of Freedom", curator "Dmytro Gorditsa", Sofia Kyivska, to the Independence Day of Ukraine, Kyiv, "Ukraine" "Paints of the Flame of Hearts", curator "Volodymyr Kozyuk", presents the People's Diplomacy Project for the 31st Anniversary of Ukraine's Independence "With love to Ukraine", curator "Olga Kotlyarova-prokopenko", International online art exhibition, Odesa, "Ukraine" 2021 "New - ART", curator "Olga Hrytsenko", the second all-Ukrainian triennial, Kremenchuk, "Ukraine" "Hryvnia ART", curator "Tatyana Vasylenko", in the art center "Svitovyd", Kolomyia, "Ukraine" "Hryvnia ART", curator "Tatyana Vasylenko", Kyiv Museum, All-Ukrainian exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, Kyiv, "Ukraine" "Hryvnia ART", curator "Tatyana Vasylenko", all-Ukrainian exhibition at the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, Kyiv, "Ukraine" "ProCheese awards", Festival of cheese art, KVC "Parkovy", Kyiv, "Ukraine" "ANTRACT 17" art museum, Cherkasy, "Ukraine" 2020 Art project "Immunity" Korsakiv Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art. Lutsk, "Ukraine" 2006 All-Ukrainian exhibition for the artist's day, Kyiv, "Ukraine" 2005 Exhibition of creative works of students of the Lviv National Academy of Arts (1st place) Lviv, "Ukraine" 2003 "Picturesque Ukraine", the exhibition dedicated to T. Shevchenko, Lviv, Ukraine" 2003 "Sito" Student exhibition participant, Ternopil, "Ukraine" 2002 Youth exhibition, Palace of Arts, Lviv, "Ukraine" 2000-2004 "Autumn Salon", Palace of Arts, international exhibition, Lviv, "Ukraine" 1998 "Untitled", curator "Roman Luchuk", Kosiv Museum of Folk Art, Kosiv, "Ukraine"

2001-2007 Lviv National Academy of Arts, Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts (Department of Art Glass). Lviv, Ukraine" Teachers: Ihor Mykula, Oleksandr Shevchenko 2000-2001 Lviv State College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after Ivan Trush. Lviv, Ukraine" Teachers: Mykola Krytskyi 1996-2000 Kosiv College of Applied and Decorative Arts (department of artistic painting). Kosiv, "Ukraine" Teachers: Roman Luchuk, Vasyl Pereghinets, Anton Hryhoruk, Volodymyr Humenyuk 1991-1996 Horodotsk Children's Art School. Town, Khmelnytskyi region, "Ukraine" Teachers: Oksana Furlet, Anatoly Furlet