Personal Information:

05/04/1950 Born in Kyiv, Ukraine

Selected Public Collections:

The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Biblical Arts Center Museum, Dallas, Texas, USA
Tretiakovskaya  Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Contemporary Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
State Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv, Ukraine
Historical and Educational Complex of the Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial Church,
South Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA
Trans-Carpathians Fine Arts Museum, Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine
Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
Regional Art Museum, Zaporizhia, Ukraine
Volynsky Regional Art Museum, Lutsk, Ukraine
Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
City Art Center, Edinburgh, Scotland
Hiallese Church, Odense, Denmark
Art Museum, Khmelnitkyi, Ukraine
Art Museum, Mykolayv, Ukraine
Arts Gallery, Izmail, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine Yagotyn Art Gallery, Yagotyn, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Stavyschansky Museum of Local Lore, Stavysche, Ukraine
Ostrohski State Historical and Cultural Reserve,  Ostroh, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine
Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Historical and Cultural Reserve,  Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
The Cherkassk Art Museum, Cherkassk, Ukraine
Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Kyiv, Ukraine
Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
The Artists’ Union of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine Chernihiv Regional Museum of Art, Chernihiv, Ukraine
Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA

Selected Outdoor Commissions:

Monument to “Heaven’s Brigade” and all those who gave their lives for a free and sovereign Ukraine. Saint Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, Bloomingdale, IL USA
Monument of Patriarch Josyf Cardinal Slipyj. Sts. Volodymyr & Olha Cathedral, Chicago, IL
Bronze group of Two Cyclist. Lite-on Corporation, Neihu, Taiwan
Sculptural composition Prometheus. State Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Sculptural composition Memory. St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Memorial statue of Mykola Lukash. Kyiv, Ukraine.
Memorial statue of Oles Gonchar.  Kyiv, Ukraine.
Sculptural composition Pieta. Ternopil, Ukraine.
Sculptural composition Unity of Faith. Evangelist-Lutheran Church, Reinhardsdorf, Germany.
Sculptural composition Recarnation. St.Nicholas Church, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Sculptural composition Pokrova. Podil district, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Statue Ukraine-Mother. Rivne, Ukraine.
Statue of Students and Professors of the Kyiv State University. Kyiv, Ukraine

Selected Grants and Awards:

1997  Prize from Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, Taylor Foundation, Paris, France.
1996  Grant from International Visitor Program of the United States Information Agency,
Washington, DC, USA.
1993  Grant from The International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine (Geneva, 
Switzerland Foundation Vidrogenia’s,  a sister foundation).
1992  Grant from Department of Cultural Affairs of Odence City, Denmark.
1990  Grant from Department of Cultural Affairs of East Berlin, Germany.
1989  Grant from Artists’ Union of East Germany.

Prizes for Participation in International Sculptural Symposiums:

1993  1st  Prize from the Artists’ Union of Ukraine for sculptural composition Pokrova, made of stone, at the International Sculpture Symposium, Podil district, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1992  2nd  Prize from the Artists’ Union of Ukraine, and from the Administration of the Podil District of the City of Kyiv, for the sculptural composition Recarnation, made of stone, at the International Sculptural Symposium, Podil district, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1990  1st  Prize from the Artists’ Union of Ukraine, and the Ternopil Organization of Artists’ Union of Ukraine, for the sculptural composition Pieta, made of stone, at the International
Sculptural Symposium, Ternopil, Ukraine.
1988  3rd  Prize and Diploma from Kyiv Culture Department, and from the Kyiv Organization of Artists’ Union of Ukraine, and a Diploma from the Artists’ Union of Ukraine for a sculptural composition Memory, made of stone, at the 1st All-Union of the USSR Sculptural Symposium, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Sotheby’s Auction  Lot Sold  Garden Architectural and Fossil Decoration, Sale B04880
Sussex, South-East, May 25, 2004 Link

Education:

1976 - 1980  Post-graduate course at the Academy of Arts,  Moscow, USSR
MA  1969 - 1975  State Art Institute (now The Academy of Fine Arts), Kyiv, Ukraine

Extra Curricular:

1978 - present    Member of the Artists’  Union of the USSR (since 1991, name was changed to
The Artists’ Union of Ukraine)

National Ukrainian Government Award:
1989  - Honored Artist Ukraine

Personal Exhibitions:

2007    National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2004    Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2004    Embassy of Ukraine in the United States of America, Washington, DC, USA
2001    Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1999    Alla Rogers Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
1999    Lazzaro  Signature Gallery of Fine Arts, Stoughton, Wisconsin, USA
1998    Olymp Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
1998    Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv, Ukraine
1998    Biblical Arts Center Museum, Dallas, Texas, USA
1998    BIG Arts Gallery (Barrier Island Group for the Arts), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
1997    Hotel du Rhone, Geneva, Switzerland, presented by Worthington Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997    Worthington Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1997     Lazzaro Signature Gallery of Fine Arts, Stoughton, Wisconsin, USA
1997    State Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Kyiv, Ukraine
1996    Art Avenue Gallery, Tower City Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1996    Ukrainian Institute of America, New York City, New York, USA
1996    Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1996    Alla Rogers Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
1996     Irena Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
1994    State Ukrainian Fine Arts Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
1993    Roman Shuper Gallery, Munich, Germany
1992    Central Music Library, Odense, Denmark
1991    Gallery of the firm Fusion Art Distribution, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1990    Leipzig Information Center, Leipzig, Germany
1990    Exhibition Hall of the Artists’ Union of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

 Selected Group Exhibitions:

2008    Art Emigrants, Contemporary Art Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
2003    Lora D. Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2002    An Art Exhibit of Ukrainian Masters in Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Ukrainian Independence. Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, Chicago, IL, USA
1999    Exhibition of Works of Ukrainian Artists. Embassy of Ukraine, Washington, DC,USA, presented by Ukrainian Institute of America.
1999    Nexus. Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1999    Autumn Salon International Art Exhibition. Paris,  France.
1998    Art of Ukraine in the 20th Century Exhibition. Presented by State Ukrainian Fine Arts Museum. All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition devoted to the 60th Anniversary of the Artists’ Union of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine                                    
1997    Autumn Salon International Art Exhibition. Paris, France.
1996    Autumn Salon International Art Exhibition. Paris, France.
1996    All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition devoted to the 5th  Anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine.
1995    Unity, 100 Ukrainian Artists throughout the World Mark the 100th Anniversary of the First Ukrainian Settlements in Canada. Kyiv, Ukraine.
1987    Ukrainian Soviet Arts and Architecture Exhibition devoted 70th Anniversary of the USSR. Kyiv, Ukraine.
1977    Exhibition of Soviet Art devoted to 60th Anniversary of the USSR. Los Angeles, CA

Professional Activity

1991 -  1993  Kyiv Artists’ Union Vice Chairman
1989 -  1992  Kyiv Sculpture Department of Artists’ Union of Ukraine Chairman.
1989 -  1995  Kyiv Artists’ Union Board Member.
1988,   1991, and 1997 - Artists’ Union of Ukraine Congress Delegate.
1988 -  1995  Judge for the Ukrainian and International Sculptural Symposiums held in Ukraine.
1986 -  1995  Purchase Committee of the Artists’ Union of Ukraine Member.
1985 -  1995  Exhibition Committee of the Artists’ Union of Ukraine Member.
1985 -  1993  Art Council for the State Artistic-Production Firm “Artist” Member.

Catalogs:

Jewhen Prokopov, 1992, publishing house "KORD & Co", Kiyv, Ukraine.
Yevhen Prokopov, Chronicle of Space: Sculpture, 1996, advertising and publishing agency "Triumph", Kiyv, Ukraine.
Prokopov, 2007, publishing house "Sophia-A", Kiyv, Ukraine.


Selected articles:

Oleksiy Tytarenko, Fine Art, "Yevhen Prokopov, Sculpture Par Excellence", 2011, Kiyv, Ukraine, LLC "Modern Art Museum of Ukraine", volume 13, p. 60.Read in Ukrainian
Petro Marusenko, Fine Art, "Transformation", 2011, Kiyv, Ukraine, LLC "Modern Art Museum of Ukraine", volume 13, p. 65. Read in Ukrainian
Lyudmyla Lysenko, "The Sculptor Whose Work Was Always Beautiful", "ART Emigrants", 2008, Kiyv, Ukraine, p. 120.
Irina Ryabinina, "Yevgen Prokopov's World", Ukraine, Kiev, 10 October 1991. ISSN 0203-5898
Avramenko, Olesia. "About Yevgen Prokopov" Read in Ukrainian


Selected online publications:

Ukrainian Weekly
Ukrainian Magazine
Kiev Day
PR Log
National Art Museum of Ukraine
100 Artists
100 Artists
ZN, UA
Kiev Day
Modern Ukrainian Art
Art of the USSR