Vasyl Pylypyuk

Vasyl Pylypyuk (; 10 January 1950 – 18 November 2017) was a Ukrainian photo artist.

In 2015, he became a professor. He was a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, and in 2007 he became an artist of the Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique. Member of the Presidium and Board of the ..

From 1999 he was an Honorary Doctor of the Ukrainian Academy of Printing, in the same year he became an academician of the National Academy of Human Problems; from 2009 he was an honorary professor at the Hamburg Academy of Arts, and from 2013 he was an honorary professor at the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy, and from 2016 he was an honorary professor at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy. In 2016, he became a member of the Expert Council of the Taras Shevchenko Art Museum in Beijing. In 2017, he became an honorary academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. He was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv.

Creativity He is the author of 45 scientific and educational works; about 2000 creative works, which he has exhibited at 100 exhibitions since 1969. He also had more than 80 solo exhibitions. The works are kept in the collections of museums and galleries around the world.

He has published over 115 art photo albums, including: «Lviv», «Zhyvytsia», «Do tebe polynut», «Piieta v kameni», «Lvivskyi derzhavnyi akademichnyi teatr opery ta baletu im. I. Franka», «Lvivshchyna», «Rovenshchyna», «V kraiu Cheremosha y Pruta», «U svit shyrokyi», «Drevnii Halych», «Lviv. Pory roku», «Dlia tebe, Lvove, ya zhyvu!», «Zemle Frankova, vkloniaius tobi! Lvivshchyna», «Ukraino, ty dlia mene dyvo!», «Svitovidchuttia epokhy», «Svitlopys dushi», «Doleiu darovani zustrichi».

Awards 1993 – Shevchenko National Prize 1998 – Honored Art Worker of Ukraine 2000 – Order of Merit, 3rd degree 2000 – silver medal of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine 2001 – Order for Labor Achievements, 4th degree, international open rating "Golden Fortune" 2009 – gold medal of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine

Prizes: 1981 – Oleksandr Havryliuk 1988 – Mykola Ostrovskyi 2004 – International Golden Icarus 2000 – Bohdan Kotyk and Ivan Krypiakevych 2009 – Marko Cheremshyna 2010 – Roman Fedoriv 2013 – Bohdan Khmelnytskyi for the best coverage of military topics in works of literature and art 2016 - Panteleimon Kulish

In 2013, he became an honorary citizen of Novoselytsia, and in 2016, Horodets, Sarny Raion, Rivne Oblast.

Honoring the memory In 2016, in his native village of Pylypyuk, the Sniatyn Raion Museum of Vasyl Pylypyuk's work was opened.