Lyubov Panchenko

Lyubov Mykhailivna Panchenko (; 2 February 1938 – 30 April 2022) was a Ukrainian visual artist and fashion designer. She was a member of the Ukrainian Women's Union. She belonged to the Sixtiers, a group of artists of the sixties who revived Ukrainian culture during the Khrushchev Thaw.

Biography Education and artistic career Lyubov Mykhailivna Panchenko was born on 2 February 1938 in the village of Yablunka, which is now a suburb of Bucha, Ukraine. In the late 1950s she graduated from the embroidery department of the . Later, she worked in a tailoring workshop and at the same time expanded her horizons of knowledge of art, becoming interested in linocut. In 1968 she entered the Faculty of Graphics of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing. In the 1960s she joined the and became a member of its literary section, Brama.

Panchenko was awarded the Vasyl Stus Prize in 2001. Because of the evident Ukrainian folk inspirations in her work, she never had an exhibition during the Soviet era. She relied financially on her fashion work and embroidery. After Russian troops left the city, she was taken to a hospital in Kyiv, where for nearly a month doctors tried to save her life. She never recovered and died there on 30 April 2022, at the age of 84.

Exhibited works In 2008, the National Museum of Literature of Ukraine exhibited the anniversary exhibition of Lyubov Panchenko. Yevhen Sverstiuk, a human rights activist and poet at the time, remarked: “These works clearly bear the stamp of genius. She lives in her world, she opens this world to us."

Panchenko's works are exhibited in private collections and in the in Kyiv.