Tetiana Harkava
Biography
Tetiana Harkava was born on October 30, 1963 in the village of Petrykivka, Petrykivka district, Dnipro region. In 1974-1978, she studied at the Petrykivka Children’s Art School named after Tetiana Pata with Fedir Panko and Olena Latun. In 1978-1982, she continued her education at the Vuchetych State Art School in Dnipro; in 1982, she became a student of the Honored Master of Folk Art of Ukraine Fedir Panko. In 2007-2010, she studied at the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Faculty of Ukrainian Philology and Art History.
In 1983-2000, she worked as a master of Petrykivka painting in the experimental workshop of the Dnipropetrovs’k Art and Production Plant in the village of Petrykivka. In 1983-1990, she taught at the Petrykivka Children’s Art School. Since 2000, she has been a master of Petrykivka painting at the Petrykivka Folk Art Center. Since 2004, she has been a lecturer in special disciplines at the Dnipro Theater and Art College, Associate Professor of the Department of Fine Arts and Design at the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, and Head of the cycle commission “Decorative and Applied Arts”. Vice President of the NGO Association of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine.
Artistic Practice
She works in the traditional Petrykivka style and at the same time is engaged in the scientific and methodological understanding of painting. She is the author of the scientific work “Methodological Principles of Teaching Petrykivka Painting” (2018), one of the attempts to systematize the pedagogical approach to teaching Petrykivka painting. She has had more than 20 personal exhibitions.
Recognition
Honored Master of Folk Art of Ukraine (2006). People’s master of Petrykivka painting. Member of the Youth Association of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1989), National Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 1990). Laureate of the Tetiana Patia Art Prize (2008). She was awarded the commemorative medal for her significant contribution to the development of the Dnipro region (2010), the award “The Best Woman of Prydniprovia-2012”, and the anniversary medal “25 Years of Independence of Ukraine”. She has diplomas and certificates from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine.
She has participated in regional, republican, national and international exhibitions since 1981. Among the significant ones are the personal exhibition “The World of Goodness and Beauty” at the Dnipro Art Museum (2005), the International Exhibition “We Are from Ukraine” in Toronto (2005), the exhibition “Generational Succession” at the Dnipro Art Museum (2010), which presented the works of four generations of artists - Tetiana Patia, Fedir Panko, Tetiana Harkava and her students. In 2013, the works of the artist and her students were exhibited in Belgium, Bulgaria, Belarus, Kuwait, Greece, China, France, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
Tetiana Harkava’s works are kept in the Dnipro Art Museum, Dnipro National Historical Museum named after D.I. Yavornytskyi, National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art (Kyiv), Zaporizhzhia Art Museum, museums in Canada, the USA, Great Britain, France and Australia, as well as in private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
