Halyna Ivashkiv

Halyna Ivashkiv was born on 5 March 1962, in Tseperiv, now part of Novyi Yarychiv settlement hromada, Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.^[1]

In 1986, she graduated from the History Department of the University of Lviv. From 1982 to 1987, she worked as a tour guide and research assistant at the Ternopil Oblast Museum, and from 1987 to 1992, she was a tour guide and senior research assistant at the State Museum of Ukrainian Fine Arts in Kyiv. In 1992, she began working as a junior research assistant at the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Lviv, where she worked as a research assistant from 2005 to 2008 and as a senior research assistant from 2008 to 2022.^[1] From 2022, she has been a leading research associate in the Institute's Department of Folk Art and the leading curator of the Museum's Folk Ceramics collection.^[2][3] She is a member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.^[4]

She is the author of over 140 scientific publications.

In the field of scientific interests, research into current issues in Ukrainian decorative and applied arts, primarily the work of individual masters, the decoration of Ukrainian folk ceramics, the artistic features of figurative and ritual ceramics, Ukrainian pysanka, etc.

• Mayor of Lviv Prize (2011)^{[citation needed]}
• Sviatoslav Hordynskyi Award (2011)^[6]
• F. I. Shmit National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Award (2013)^[7]
• Stefan Taranushenko Prize from the National Union of Folk Artists of Ukraine (2018)^{[citation needed]}