Valerij Sosna was born and lives in the Dnipro. He made a decision to become a professional artist at a rather mature age, when he was serving in the army. For several years he worked in the art studio of Mikhail Pushnoj. Then he lived and worked for three years in Moscow studio of the artist Fyodor Reshetnikov, where he absorbed the energetics of his paintings, as well as paintings by Vrubel, Serov, Repin. After several years of study he entered the Kiev State Art Institute. Graduation from the university coincided with the first solo exhibition in the capital. Since then and to this day the artist continues to search in the most different genres of painting and trends in the visual arts.
2018 - Ours. Sublimation of war, Dnipro city 2017 - Watercolors on chains, Dnipro city 2016 - Personal exhibition in Dnipro city 2016 - Winter Vernissage, Dnipro city 2016 - Our country, Dnipro city 2 010 - Personal exhibition of paintings in the Dnepropetrovsk Art Museum, Dnipro city 2008 - Flowers for women 2008 - All-Ukrainian exhibition of paintings in Dnipro 2008 - The first All-Ukrainian exhibition of still life in Kiev 2007 - Member of the all-Ukrainian triennale of painting in Kiev 2007 - All-Ukrainian landscape exhibition "Kuindzhi Memorial" 2006 - Participant of the International Plein Air - Exhibition. Poland 2005 - Exhibition of Contemporary Art of Artists of the Dnipro Region "New Countdown" 2004 - Participant of the International Art Festival in Magdeburg, Germany 2003 - All-Ukrainian Exhibition of Painting and Graphics "Picturesque Ukraine", Kiev 2 000 - personal exhibition of paintings in the Dnepropetrovsk Art Museum