Taras Bohdanovych Levkiv (Ukrainian: Тарас Богданович Левків; 25 June 1940 – 9 March 2025) was a Ukrainian artist who specialised in ceramic art. From the 1980s, he was the head of the Department of Art Ceramics at Ivan Trush Lviv State College of Decorative and Fine Arts.
Taras Bohdanovych Levkiv (Ukrainian: Тарас Богданович Левків; 25 June 1940 – 9 March 2025) was a Ukrainian artist who specialised in ceramic art. From the 1980s, he was the head of the Department of Art Ceramics at Ivan Trush Lviv State College of Decorative and Fine Arts.
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Life and career Taras Levkiv was born in Mala Berezovytsia near Zbarazh, in the Ternopil region of West Ukraine, only months after the village was absorbed into the Ukrainian SSR after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. He was the son of Bohdan Andriyovych Levkiv (1912–1999) and Olga Ivanivna Levkiv (née Omelan) (1921–2013). In 1964 he graduated from Lviv College of applied arts named in I. Trush (Ceramics Department). There he met his teacher Taras Dragan, with whom he would go on to develop a close relationship and the two would go on to enjoy years of true friendship. In 1971 he graduated from Lviv Institute of applied and decorative arts. At the end of 1970 he held his private student's exhibition in the town. The works he presented opened up new opportunities of an ancient method of potter's wheel; they had expressive ethnographic features. He made an acquaintance with Pēteris Martinsons at a workshop in Dzintari (Latvia). Since that time the artist's works has been evolving as if in two directions. The first one represents bold experiments in the area of free creation which is officially forbidden in sculpture. The second one is in his ability to incarnate and carry to the…
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2. Official Taras Levkiv Website
Levkiv died in Vynnyky, Lviv Oblast on 9 March 2025, at the age of 84.