Exhibitions

Personal exhibition of paintings
Valerii Davydov, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine
"Outdoor travels of Valerii Davydov"
from the series "Laureates of the Oleksandr Osmerkin regional prize
in the field of fine arts and art history"

    The personal exhibition of paintings by Valerii Davydov, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, "Valerii Davydov's Outdoor Travels" is presented as part of the museum art project "Laureates of the Oleksandr Osmerkin Regional Prize in the Field of Fine Arts and Art History".
    Davydov Valerii Mykolayovych was born on December 21, 1954 in the city of Kirovohrad (now Kropyvnytskyi).
    Graduated with honors from the Odesa State Art School named after M.B.Grekov (1984) and St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. Yu. Repin (1993).
    Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2005). Laureate of the regional award in the field of fine arts and art history named after Oleksandr Osmerkin in the nomination "national tradition" (2018).
    He worked as a designer of the Kirovohrad Art and Production Workshops of the Art Fund of the Ukrainian SSR (1984-1988), the director of the Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum, now the Museum of Art of the Kirovohrad Regional Council (1998-2001).
    Actively engaged in teaching activities - senior lecturer of the Department of Fine Arts and Design of the Faculty of Arts, currently the Department of Art Education of the Faculty of Pedagogy, Psychology and Arts, Central Ukrainian State University named after Volodymyr Vynnychenko (2001-2021), lecturer at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts (Kirovohrad Faculty) and art school named after O.O.Osmerkin.
    The initiator of the establishment of the regional outdoor art event "Kirovohrad region through the eyes of artists" with the aim of developing the best traditions of fine art and educating creative youth (1998).
    In co-authorship with Artem Kyndrytskyi, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, he was the stage designer of the play based on Ivan Franko's " Fox Mykyta" at the Kirovohrad Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater named after M.L. Kropyvnytskyi (2006). Together with the students of the art faculty of the University named after V. Vynnychenko created a mural near the "Berloga" time club in Kropyvnytskyi (2015).
    Participant of all-Ukrainian and international art exhibitions and plein-air exhibitions - All- Ukrainian art exhibitions "Women of Ukraine - Artists" (Kyiv, 2002), To the Artist's Day (Kyiv, 2003), Christmas art exhibition (Kyiv, 2003), Autumn art exhibition (Kyiv, 2004) , Graphics Triennial (Kyiv, 2006), "Picturesque Ukraine" (Donetsk, 2002, Lviv, 2003, Yagotyn, 2004, Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi), 2005, Kropyvnytskyi, 2019), All-Ukrainian and International Biennial Exhibition "Sea of Watercolors" (2016 , 2018, 2020), Repin Plein Air International (Chuhuiiv, 2020, 2021).
    He participated in the National Project "Ukrainians in the World", for which he created five portraits, including a portrait of the artist Oleksandr Osmerkin (2008), an exhibition of Kirovohrad artists in the National Reserve "Sofiia of Kyiv" as part of the project "Treasures of Ukrainian museums on the holy land of Sofiia of Kyiv" (2009), a joint art project of the Yelisavetgrad gallery and the O.O.Osmerkin "Art plein air dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of Oleksandr Osmerkin" (Kropyvnytskyi, 2017).
    Personal exhibitions were exhibited in the Art Salon of the Kirovohrad Regional Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2005), the Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum, now the Museum of Arts of the Kirovohrad Regional Council ("Teacher and Pupils", 2006, "Declaration", 2016), the Regional Universal Scientific library named after D.I.Chizhevskyi ("Queen of Silence", 2022).
    The works are stored in the Art Museum and O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum (Kropyvnytskyi), private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
    In art, he prefers realistic and academic painting, the genre range is landscape, portrait, still life, story picture. A separate direction of creativity is icon painting, the author of the icons in the Transfiguration Cathedral and the monumental painting in the Cathedral Church of the Annunciation of the Holy Virgin in the city of Kropyvnytskyi.
    The exposition of the exhibition consists of almost forty pictorial sketches made by the artist in the years 2001-2023 in his native Kropyvnytskyi and during open-air travels in Kirovohrad Oblast, in the city of Odessa where he was a student, and in the homeland of the world-famous painter Illia Repin in Chuhuiev, Kharkiv Oblast, where the XXII was held in the summer of 2021 International Repin Plein Air, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's Independence, under the slogan: "Repin is an artist in love with Ukraine."


Exhibition poster  Catalogue. Outdoor travels of Valerii Davydov.
A personal exhibition of paintings by Valerii Davydov,
a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

From the series of catalogs "Laureates of the Oleksandr Osmerkin regional prize in the field of fine arts and art history".
Compiled by Vita Chernova. Computer layout and layout by Nataliia Kornilova. – Kropyvnytskyi: Art Memorial Museum of O.O.Osmerkin, 2024. – 24 p.: ill.

Exposition of the exhibition

Head of the Kirovohrad Regional Council Oleksandr Chornoivanenko presents Valerii Davydov,
a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, with the Oleksandr Osmerkin
regional prize in the field of fine arts and art history in the "national tradition" category
at the O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum

2018

The artist Valerii Davydov donates the author's paintings "O.O.Osmerkin" and "Osmerkin Museum" to the funds of the Oleksandr Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum
2023
Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko
Artist Valerii Davydov among the participants of the plein air for the Artist's Day.v. Adzhamka, Kirovohrad region.
2019
Photo by Oleksandr Shuleshko
Artist Valerii Davydov among the participants of the 22nd International Repin Open Air, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's Independence. Chuhuiiv, Kharkiv Region.
2021
Photo from an Internet resource

Self-portrait
2003
Cardboard, oil
40,8õ36
Evening in Tyshkivka
2001
Cardboard, oil
26õ21
Autumn in Pushkin Park
2007
Cardboard, oil
19,7õ29,4
Day. Near
Novomyrgorod

2007
Cardboard, oil
25õ20
Railway bridge
2010
Canvas on cardboard, oil
23,5õ36

Olenivka
2010
Cardboard, oil
23õ30
 Autumn on Gorky
Street. Pomychna

2011
Cardboard, oil
20õ24
   Meadow.
Bokovenki

2013
Hardboard, oil
34õ43
  Baths on the lake.
Svitlovodsk

2015
Cardboard, oil
34,5õ50
  Khutir Nadiia bathhouse
2015
Cardboard, oil
21õ28

Morning
2015
Hardboard, oil
13,5õ21,5
Bending. Gardens
2015
Hardboard, oil
13,5õ22
  Heat. Pomichna
2016
Hardboard, oil
31õ40,5
  Pond. Birky
2016
Hardboard, oil
27,5õ36

Lane in Pomichna
2017
Hardboard, oil
30õ45
Alley near Reversny
Bridge. Tiraspol

2017
Hardboard, oil
30õ45
  Svitlovodsk.
Tatarov's yard

2018
Cardboard, oil
20õ32
  Quiet evening. Pomichna
2018
Cardboard, oil
24õ34,5

Sofiivka purlieu
2018
Cardboard, oil
24,4õ29,7
Decabristiv Street
2019
Hardboard, oil
30õ40
  Beach. Odesa
2019
Hardboard, oil
29õ29,5
  Yellow stone on
the beach "Otrada". Odesa

2019
Cardboard, oil
27õ40
  Starodiukivsky
Park. Odesa

2019
Cardboard, oil
20õ29,5

Near the theater
2020
Cardboard, oil
20õ25
Adzhamka motive.
Noon

2020
Cardboard, oil
25õ40
  Red house.
Chuhuiiv

2021
Cardboard, oil
29õ34,5
  Siverskyi Donets near
the Bereg Nadiia base. Chuguyiv

2021
Cardboard, oil
15õ24
  Temple in Kochetka.
Chuhuiiv

2021
Cardboard, oil
34,5õ25

Abandoned house.
Kochetok. Chuhuiiv

2021
Cardboard, oil
30õ49,5
Osypenko Lane.
Pomichna

2021
Hardboard, oil
30õ41
  Gogol Street
2021
Cardboard, oil
49õ35
  The Ingul Beach
2021
Cardboard, oil
22õ19,5
  Oleksiivsky pond
2021
Hardboard, oil
16õ27

Evening is coming soon.
Kovalivsky Park

2021
Cardboard, oil
20õ30
 
  "...At the workshop
of Tolia Shapovalov"

2021
Cardboard, oil
35õ41,5
House in Arsenivka
2023
Hardboard, oil
30õ40
  Sunset on the
Adzhamka River

2023
Cardboard, oil
38õ29,5
  Osmerkin Museum
2023
Cardboard, oil
50õ40