LYTVYNENKO OLEKSIY (1961, Kyiv) – painter. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1992). He graduated from the Kyiv Art Institute (1985; V. Shatalin’s workshop). Participant of all-Ukrainian, foreign art exhibitions. Personal – in Kiev, Paris, Malmo, Sumy, Geneva, Kaniv. The main branch is easel painting. He creates thematic paintings, landscapes in the style of metaphysical realism, conveying the ideas of Eastern philosophy in the language of refined colors. He made a number of objects of land art, exhibition objects of wood and iron (most – together with P. Bevza). The works are stored in Ukraine and abroad.