Mykhailo Nykolaichuk

Mykhailo Stepanovych Nykolaichuk (; born 14 November 1946) is a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine from 1988. He is the father of footballer .

Biography Mykhailo Nykolaichuk was born on 14 November 1946, in Lysivtsi (now Tovste Hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine).

He graduated from the , and in 1975, from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (his specialized teachers were V. Vendzylovych and R. Selskyi). From 1977 to 1990, he worked at the Ternopil Art and Production Plant.

In 1989, along with others, he founded the art group "Khoruhva".

Creativity He worked in major fields, particularly easel and monumental painting, and graphics.

From 1978, he has been presenting his works at city, all-Ukrainian, and international exhibitions. Solo exhibitions have been held in Chernivtsi (1986), Ivano-Frankivsk (1987), Lviv (1988), and Ternopil (1990, 1996, 2000, 2006, 2018).

A folk character bursts forth in Mykola Nykolaichuk's temperamental painting. He combines aesthetically chosen colors with dynamic lines and expressive decorative elements in his planar compositions. He was the head of the fresco painting for churches in the villages of Kupchyntsi, Velyki Hai, and Petrykiv in the Ternopil Raion. Some of his works are preserved in the collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv; the Ternopil and art museums; and in private collections in Australia, Canada, Germany, Poland, the U.S., and France.

Among his important works: Easel paintings: "Zalizni stovpy" (1975), "Mariia" (1980), "Novyi den" (1986), the triptych "Kateryna", "Kolyskova" (all — 1988), "Radiatsiia", "Tysk", "Vsevydiache oko", "Mariia" (all — 1992), "Serafymy" (1994), "Promenysta" (1995), "Seliany" (1996), "Zhinky" (1998), "Idemo", "Rover 'Khoruhvy'" (both — 2000). Series: "Or i Lel'" (2006). Monumental murals: Ternopil Regional Children's Clinical Hospital (1985–1987), the House of Nature in Ternopil, the Church of St. Nicholas in of Denysiv in the Ternopil Raion (both — 1992). Watercolors: "Opika" (1995), "Stykhiia", "Zvistka" (both — 1996), "Vesna" (1997).

Awards Mykhailo Boichuk Prize (1990).