Mykhailo Moroz

Mykhailo Moroz (; 7 July 1904 – 27 September 1992) was a Ukrainian painter.

In 1931 he became a member of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists, and in 1949 he joined the Ukrainian Artist's Association in USA. In 1980 he became an academician of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.

Biography Mykhailo Moroz was born on 7 July 1904 in Plikhiv, now Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.

He died on 27 September 1992 in the borough of Staten Island, New York. He is buried in Bound Brook, New Jersey, the U.S.

Creativity In 1925, he began participating in exhibitions. His personal exhibitions took place in Lviv (1925, 1934, 1942–1943), Kyiv (1941), Munich (1946), Regensburg (1947–1948; both in Germany), Miami (Florida, USA, 1954), New York (1959–1963, 1981, 1990), Paris (1961–1962), Toronto (1964), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA, 1991) and Ternopil (1997).

In 1952, 14 paintings stored in the National Museum of Lviv were destroyed. Some of the works were transferred by Moroz's widow to the Ukrainian Museum in New York.

The works of Moroz include portraits, expressionist landscapes, and still lifes, among others: "Kosmatskyi vodospad" (1926), "Kosmatska richka Pistynka" (1927), "Hutsulskyi peizazh" (1930s.), "Avtoportret" (1932), "Andrei Sheptytskyi pid chas Sluzhby Bozhoi" (1937), "Materynstvo (Druzhyna z synom)" (1944), "Poluden nad Dunaiem" (1949), "Morskyi prybii. Buria" (1961), "Ukrainska tserkva v Hanteri" (1963), "Hirska symfoniia" (1964), "Druzhyna" (1965), "Arka Tytao", "Kolizei", "Vyd na Monte-Kavo" (all – 1967–1975), "Osinnia symfoniia" (1968), "Morskyi prybii" (1969), "Sobor sv. Sofii u Rymi", "Hutsulka" (both from the 1970s.), "Koliadky" (1970), "Mytropolyt Andrei Sheptytskyi. Molytva" (1972), "Rozhi na synomu tli" (1973), cycle "Tserkva sv. Sofii" (1973–1974), "Kardynal Yosyf Slipyi", "Polovi kvity", "U kvitakh. Monastyr studytiv u Kastel Gandolfo", "Ozero Albano. Kastel Gandolfo" (all – 1974), "Mist i zamok sv. Anhela u Rymi" (1975).