Lidia Lykhach

Lidia Petrivna Lykhach (; born 4 December 1961) is a Ukrainian publisher, art curator, owner of RODOVID Press and RODOVID art gallery.

Biography

Lykhach graduated from Krasnovolia High School in the Volyn region. She earned her degree in journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She began her career in Cherkasy, writing a cultural column for the newspaper Mолодь Черкащини (Youth of Cherkashchyna).

As Ukraine declared independence and the communist ban on private media were lifted, Lykhach launched the magazine RODOVID - Notes on the History of Ukrainian Culture and founded the publishing house RODOVID Press in 1993. She created publishing projects that highlight key aspects of Ukraine's cultural history. These projects include more than fifty albums, catalogs, and monographs published in Ukrainian, English, and French.

In addition to her publishing endeavors, she curates art exhibitions and organizes multimedia projects. Her curatorial interests include naïve and folk art, the Ukrainian avant-garde, contemporary Ukrainian photography, and contemporary art.

In 2003, Lykhach founded the RODOVID art gallery in Kyiv. Prior to that, she was an advisor to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine.

She is married to music ethnologist William Noll, author of The Transformation of Civil Society: An Oral History of Ukrainian Peasant Culture, 1920s–1930s. Lykhach has two children and lives between Kyiv and Kansas City.

Selected publishing projects

“HE AND I WERE UKRAINIANS”. Autobiographical Text by Kazimir Malevich. Ed. Peter Doroshenko. Kyiv: RODOVID press, 2025. Teura. Sophia Yablonska. Foreword: Oksana Zabuzhko. . Yevhen Prychepiy, Tetiana Prychepiy: Embroidery Of Eastern Podillia / Вишивка Східного Поділля. Kyiv: RODOVID press, 2006, 2017.

Selected curated exhibitions 2023: Die Bestie des Krieges – Naive Kunst aus der Ukraine, at Open art museum in St. Gallen 2017: Pure Art, at Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv 2019: Through the lens: unbending life, at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago 2018: Ukrainian avant-garde: a non-fashion guide, at The Cultural and Information Centre of the Embassy of Ukraine in the French Republic in Paris 2011: Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915–1931, at Ukrainian Museum in New York City 2007: Ukrainian Sculpture and Icons, at Ukrainian Museum in New York City

Selected publications IT TAKES THREE TO TANGO: The true story of a fictitious romance. The Correspondence of Ivan Ostafiychuk and Natalka Husar. Kyiv: RODOVID press, 2025. . Pure Art / Чисте мистецтво. (with Petro Honchar). Kyiv: RODOVID press, 2020. . Панас Ярмоленко. Портрет мого краю. (with Halyna Schtschupak, Petro Hontschar). Kyiv: RODOVID press, 2006. . Ukrainian Folk Icons From The Land Of Shevchenko. (with Rostyslav Zabashta). Kyiv: RODOVID press, 2000.