BIO

Ivan Tsupka, a Ukrainian contemporary artist, was born in Odessa in 1973. In the 1990s, he relocated to Kyiv where he became a prominent figure in the local contemporary art scene. He received his degree in painting from the Ukrainian Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in 1999, but currently focuses primarily on photography and new media.

Ivan's works have been acquired by many public collections, including the Ukrainian National Museum, Odessa Fine Art Museum, and Museum of Odessa Modern Art, as well as numerous private collections around the world. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows at prestigious institutions and galleries throughout Ukraine, such as the Odessa Museum of Modern Art, Guelman Gallery, Pinchuk Art Center, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, and Brucie Collection Gallery, among others.

Education
1993 - 1999 Ukrainian Academy of Art and Architecture, Kyiv, Ukraine
1988 - 1992 Odessa State College of Fine Arts, Odessa, Ukraine

Exhibitions

Personal
2022
Everything and Nothing, Art Odessa State Gallery, Ukraine

2019
Untitled - Odessa State Literature Museum, Ukraine

2013
"The Shining", Odessa Museum of Modern Art, Ukraine

2009
"Play of Light", Brucie Collection gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2007 
"Supersonic" , Bereznitsky Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Nuclear Pussycats", Da Vinci gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2003
"Wireframe", House of Cinema, Kyiv, Ukraine

2002 
"Noise", as a part of Kiev International Media Art Festival 2002,
Alipi gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Wireframe", Guelman gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
"DOOM. Still Life.", White Moon gallery, Odessa, Ukraine

2000
"Ours/Aliens", L-Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

1999
 "$@X", Soviart Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

1998
Your Vampire Tooth" Cyber Cafe, Kyiv, Ukraine

1997
"Baby Babble", Marginesy Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine;
"Underwater", Tirs Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine;

1996  
 "Deja vue" , L-Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Group
2021
"Dad, the helmet is pressing", Contemporary art from the NAMU collection, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

2017
"Flashback", Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Envy", Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

2015
"Golden Section Contemporary Art", Cultural Center M17, Kyiv, Ukraine

2013
"Golden Section Contemporary Art", Cultural Center M17, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011
"Golden Section Contemporary Art", Donbass Palace Hotel, Doneck, Ukraine
"Golden Section Design and Photography auction", Cultural Center M17, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Golden Section Contemporary Art auction", Cultural Center M17, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Prosto. Mystectvo", National Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukarine
"Space Odyssey 2011", Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine

2008
"Erogenous Zone", DaVinci Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2004
"Goodbye Weapon", Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Digital Russia", Central Artists House, Moscow, Russia
"StART challenge finalists", L-Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2003
"First Collection of Contemporary Art Museum", Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
"21 artists", Soviart gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Donumenta", Regensburg, Germany

2002
"Xenophilia", Guelman gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
"New Directions", Kyiv, Ukraine
"Over a Border", as a part of "Art Moscow" Art Festival, Central Artists House, Moscow, Russia
"Allergy", Ra gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Ukrainian Art", Rebel Minds gallery, Berlin, Germany
"Objective unconscious", as a part of a "Cultural Hero" festival Guelman gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine and Museum of Literature, Odessa, Ukraine
"Media", Maritime gallery, Odessa, Ukraine

2001
Festival of Contemporary Ukrainian Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
"Game" Kiev International Media Art Festival 2001, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Illumination", Soros Center of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine

2000
"Contemporary Photography of Ukraine", Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Centre, Greece
"Alter Natura" Kiev International Media Art Festival 2000, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Clean Room", Kyiv, Ukraine, All-Ukrainian Art Festival, Ukrainian House Cultural Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
"New Directions", Artists Union Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Future is now - Ukrainian Art in the Nineties”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
"Vystavka kartin" - State Museum of the Russian Art, Odessa, Ukraine

1999 
"Regarde sur l'Ukraine", Passage du Retz, Paris, France
"Mirage", Soros Center of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Screen Version", Artists Union Gallery,Kyiv, Ukraine
"Envy",Soros Center of Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Contemporary Photography of Ukraine", 1999 Est-Ouest Festival, Die, France
"Contemporary Photography of Ukraine", 1999 1999 Le Quai Art School, Mulhouse, France

1998
"Bananagold", Exhibition Hall of Ukrainian Academy Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Public Interest", Artists Union Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

1997
"Photo...synthesis", Artists Union Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Atmosphere", Ukrainian House Cultural Center, Kyiv, Ukraine

1996
"Trans-Port" project Odessa, Ukraine;"Phantom-Opera" project, Odessa, Ukraine

1994
"Art D'Ucraina", Centre cultural D'Alcol, Valencia, Spain;
"Continuation of Traditions", State Museum of the Russian Art, Odessa, Ukraine