Background
Vasiliy Ryabchenko was July 23, 1954 in Odessa, Ukraine, in the family of the Soviet graphic artist Sergey Ryabchenko.
In 1969, Ryabchenko entered the painting faculty at Grekov Odessa Art School. He graduated from the school in 1973.
From 1974 to 1976, Ryabchenko studied as an auditor in the Mukhina School of Art (now Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy) in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Between 1978 and 1983, Ryabchenko studied at the Ushinsky South Ukrainian Pedagogical University at the art-graphic faculty, where his teachers were Zinaida Borisyuk and Valery Gegamyan.
Василий Рябченко
graphic artist painter Photographer author of objects and installations
Vasiliy Ryabchenko was July 23, 1954 in Odessa, Ukraine, in the family of the Soviet graphic artist Sergey Ryabchenko.
Ryabchenko's art education began in 1966 in an art school. In 1969, he entered the painting faculty at Grekov Odessa Art School. He graduated from the school in 1973.
From 1974 to 1976, Ryabchenko studied as an auditor in the Mukhina School of Art (now Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy) in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Between 1978 and 1983, he studied at the Ushinsky South Ukrainian Pedagogical University at the art-graphic faculty, where his teachers were Zinaida Borisyuk and Valery Gegamyan.
The works of Vasiliy Ryabchenko, dating from the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, are distinguished by the synthesis of "western" and "eastern" approaches to pictorial art. In the second half of the eighties Vasily Ryabchenko imbued with the transavantgarde ideas. As an example of the works of the second half of the 1980s - "Cats", a story about two cats-rivals.
From 1973 to 1989 Ryabchenko was the participant of regional, republican, all-Union and foreign exhibitions. In 1988 he participated in the All-Union Young Artists Exhibition at the Manezh, Moscow, Russian Federation. Since then he widely exhibited in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Germany, France and Japan. Currently, he has mostly exhibited in Ukraine.
Vasiliy Ryabchenko lives and works in Odessa, Ukraine.
Bather
Fountain constructing (pink)
Бегство в Египет
Copperas
Self-portrait
Morning
Catchers (left part of the diptych)
Piquant instructions for the bodybuilder
Diver
The Death of Actaeon
Prince
Catchers (right part of the diptych)
Morpheus Dream
Self-portrait
Daphne
Крик
Games with characters
Balbesin upbringing
Naked Dream
The Triad
Untitled
Marat’s Death
Торс
Near the fountain
Samson. From the Heroic babies series
Kiss furtively
Western
Без названия
Woman Figure in the Interior
Undecipherable characters shore
Shell
Samson. From the Heroic Babies Series (left part of the diptych)
On the Langeron
Balbesin upbringing
Snake Woman
Dedication to Madame Recamie
His sweetheart. From the Heroic babies series (right part of the diptych)
Big Bembi
Embrace
Red Room
Swing for Stumps
Naked Dream
Love - not love
Heroic baby I
Princess
Naked Dream
Narcissus
Пляж
Flowering time
Landscape
About Marat
Games with characters
Prince
Каролино-Бугаз
Deterrence
Big hunt
Prayer
Susanna and the Elders
Heroic baby II
Мыльные герои
Princess
Fountain constructing (blue)
Deterrence
Prince
Prince
The False Sign
Temptation
Пляж
Ballerina
The Death of Actaeon
Temptation method
Games with characters
Copperas
Untitled
Princess
Embrace
Prince
Vasiliy Ryabchenko became a member of the National Artists Union of Ukraine in 1987.
Besides, in 1996, he founded the creative association "Art Laboratory".