Borys Buryak (born 25 October 1953 in Podvirne,

Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast (), also referred to as Chernivechchyna (), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the historical regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldo ...

, in the

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of the

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) is a Ukrainian

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. His works depict Ukrainian landscapes and urban views, or draw on the traditions of Ukrainian

iconography Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct fro ...

. Buryak graduated from the Ivan Trush College of Arts in 1974, and from the

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in 1979. He is a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. In 1991 he won the National Union of Artists Prize (

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, 1991), and was recognised in the international "New Names" awards in Moscow in 1992. Buryak today lives and works in

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, Ukraine, where he runs a private art school.

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