Kuzovkin Dmytro

Kuzovkin Dmytro

Dmytro was born into a family of engineers in Lviv in 1952. His father participated in World War II, worked in Moscow but could not defend his thesis due to political reasons; trying to save himself from repression, he came to Lviv in the late 1940s. His mother was of noble birth.

Dmytro studied Russian philology at the Lviv University from 1970 to 1975.
He worked at Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv during 1979–1991 and was a glass artist at Hryhoriy Komskyi’s studio from 1992 to 1994. He was a part of the first composition of cult rock band Super Vuiky (1975–1978; bass guitar).

In 1980, he joined the group of intellectuals, mostly Russian-speaking, who had a conditional title Lviv School. In this environment, Dmytro Kuzovkin popularized The Tibetan Book of the Dead. In the future, he would often go back to the images of the other world trying to convey them in paintings, but at last he had to confess that paints and surreal plots did not solve this problem. He is a member of the Galician Art Association since 1993. He presented colored drawings in hippie style at his first personal exhibition Levitation (July 1993, Lviv).

He lives and works in Lviv.