Roman Yatsiv
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- Painter
- art historian
- educator
Roman Yatsiv | |
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| Роман Миронович Яців | |
| Born | 26 August 1956 Khodoriv, Lviv Oblast (now Ukraine) |
| Alma mater | Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts |
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| Awards | Merited Culture Worker of Ukraine Sviatoslav Hordynskyi Prize |
Roman Yatsiv (Ukrainian: Роман Миронович Яців; born 26 August 1956) is a Ukrainian painter, art historian and educator. He is a Candidate of Art History, a Doctor of Historical Sciences, and a professor. Member of the Union of Artists "Club of Ukrainian Artists" from 1989 and the Lviv organization of the Union of Artists of Ukraine from 1992,[1] and is a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. He has been an Merited Culture Worker of Ukraine from 2006[1] and received the Sviatoslav Hordynskyi Prize for 2008.[2]
He was born on 26 August 1956, in the city of Khodoriv (now Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine). He is the son of graphic artist Myron Yatsiv.[3] From 1973 to 1978, he studied at the Department of Interior and Furniture Design at the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, where his teachers included Myron Yatsiv, Karlo Zvirynskyi, Yurii Skandakov, Mykhailo Kurylych, Volodymyr Ostrovskyi, Teofil Maksysko, Volodymyr Ovsiichuk, Stepan Koropchak, and Danylo Dovboshynskyi.[2]
He served in the Soviet Army and, after being discharged from the reserves in December 1979, worked in Lviv, first as a junior research fellow at the State Museum of Ukrainian Art, and later as acting head of the Soviet Art Department. In 1984, he moved to the Lviv branch of the Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology, where he began systematic scientific research of Visual arts of Ukraine. In 1994, based on his monograph "Lviv Graphics of the 1945–1990s: Traditions and Innovation", he defended his Candidate's dissertation.[4] At the same time, from 1991 to 1993, he held the position of editor-in-chief of the journal "Mystetski Studii".[2]
From 1994 to 2007, he served as deputy director for Scientific Work at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and has been an docent from 2003.[1] Simultaneously, from 1995, he has been the executive secretary of the journal "Narodoznavchi Zoshyty".ref name="ЛНАМ"/> From 2007 to 2021, he was the Vice-Rector for Scientific Work at the Lviv National Academy of Arts, and from September 2021, he has been a professor at the Department of Artistic Woodwork.[2] At the same time, from 2009, he has been the executive secretary of the journal "Mystetskyy Uzhyinok".[2] He resided in Lviv at 56 Drahomanova Street, apartment 9,[5] and at 9 Mykoly Voronoho Street, apartment 3.[6]
