Igor Palii

Background

Igor Palii was born in 1963 in Drohobych, a regional center of Western Ukraine, in a family of musicians and child care workers.

Education

In 1986 he finished faculty of architecture at Lviv Polytechnic National University.

Career

The technique he mainly uses is Oil on canvas. After graduation he was involved in various architectural projects combined with canvas painting. Currently he lives in Lviv, a city in the western part of Ukraine.

Palii has one daughter.

In 2004 he started his own company specializing in architecture and construction. Sakhalin period In 1986, Igor Palii moved to Sakhalin island, where he worked as a Chief Decorator of a trade & advertising company.

He is well known as a master of interior for shops, restaurants and private houses in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Polish period Moved back to Krakow, Poland in 1992.

In 1998 Palii’s first personal exhibition in Krakow was organized.

Actively participates in polish cultural life and charity campaigns. In 2004 Igor Palii participated in international Art auctions, where his oil-painted canvas “Bez TytułUniversity 2001” (“Without A Title2001”) was sold for 2,772 United States dollar. Turn to steel art Since 2002 Igor Palii turned to new art stream beginning to create his own works of art made of steel.

The main cause of such turn was the need of three-dimensional figures as an addition to Palii’s paintings in a current project

In order to fulfill his new vision, Igor Palii establishes his own small enterprise of steel art production. The new turn resulted in such projects as decoration of trade center “Sophia” in the west of Ukraine, restaurant “Flamingo” in Stryi, Ukraine, “Museum of Beer”, “Aivengo” in Lviv, Ukraine.

1987: 3rd prize for the best interior of Sakhalin island.

Achievements

• 1987: 3rd prize for the best interior of Sakhalin island. The same year initiated an exhibition “Painters of Sakhalin” in Oxa, Sakhalin Republic 1988: 3rd prize for political illustrations in the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Republic 1993: 1st personal exhibition in the Lviv National Art Gallery 1994: 2nd personal exhibition in the Lviv National Art Gallery 1994: Participated in collective exhibition “HungExpo”, Budapest 1994: Participated in Ukrainian planner “Maidan 1994”, Lviv, Western Ukraine 1995: Palii’s exhibits his arts in 2nd collective exhibition, Budhapest 1996: Starts his collaboration with “Barbara Krakow Gallery”. 1996: Exhibits in galleries “Közület artistichnuj”, “Labyrinth Gallery”, “Galeria Kersten”, Poland 2002: Participated in international exhibition in Köln, Germany at Exhibition Center Köln 2003 - 2004: Personal exhibition in Dijon, France 2009 - 2011: Personal exhibition in Nice, France 2011 – Present: Palii exhibits canvases in Washington District of Columbia, United States of America.

Membership

He is a member of the Community of Artists of Ukraine.