Oleg Dergachov

Artist and Sculptor

__Short professional biography:

Oleg Dergachov holds a Master in Arts degree from Ukrainian Academy of Fine Arts in Lviv (Ukraine) obtained in 1984.

He has additional training in the field of bronze and granite sculpture from the INTEGRART workshops provided
by Professor Ph.D. Andrzhej Strumillo (Warszaw, Poland) in 2003-2004.

In 1996, 1997 and 2000 he attended workshops of Prof, Ph.D. sculptor Walter Kaune in Goslar (Germany).

In 1990 he founded Studio DO which was commissioned to create several public art projects in Ukraine and Russia
such as famous and one-of-a-kind Monument of Smile in Surgut (Russia), “Smiling Fish” in city of Lviv (Ukraine) and many others.

In 2005 Oleg Dergachov settled in Montreal where he continued his art activity in Studio DO managing art projects and public presentations
of his bronzes and wooden objects.


__The main Solo exhibitions:


2011
"Presse Papier", Centre d'artistes en estampe contemporaine (Trois-Rivieres)
2010
Maison Lepallier, Chateauguay
2010
KUMF Art Gallery, Toronto
2009
Toronto Art Expo
2008
Crazy Engineering, Musee des Maitres et Artisans du Quebec, Montreal
2006
Labyrinth of Time", Gallery at Victoria Hall, Westmount, Canada
2006
Tryptik gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
2005
Don Quichotte project, Bibliotheque Nationale in Montreal
Stubengalerie, Goslar, Germany
City Hall Gallery (Rathaus), Frieburg, Germany
2004
Surgut State Art Museum, Surgut, Russia
State Gallery of Artist's Union, Kiev, Ukraine
2003
Museum of Print, Meppel, Holland
Michalsky Dwor Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2002
State Art Museum "Oratorio San Rocco", Padova, Italy
Stara Kapetania Galery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
2000
Vychodoslovenska State Gallery in Kosice, Slovak Republic
1999
State Museum of Fine Arts, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
1997
City Art Gallery, Legnica, Poland
1996
Moenchehaus Museum for Modern Art, Goslar, Germany
1994
State Museum of Anna Akhmatova, St.-Petersburg, Russia
State Museum of Book Art in the Kiev- Pecherska Lavra, Kiev, Ukraine

 
__artworks have been acquired by the following public collections and museums:

Canada

University of the Western Ontario
Middlesex College and City Art & Historian Museum, London, Ontario
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL corporative art collection, Montreal

France
Mediotheek of the Bobur, Centre National D'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
Art Museum of Province Limousine, Uzerche 

Belgium
The Collection of the Frans Masereel Center
Flamish Ministry of Culture
"Hof ten Doeyer" Art centre- Gallery "Tres", Kortrijk
UFSIA University Library

Germany
Lyrik Kabinett , Munich
Kunstverein Oerlinghausen
Monchehaus Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Goslar
Herzog August - Bibliotheek in Wolfenbuttel

Great Britain
Victoria & Albert Museum
National Art Library, National British Library, London

Holland
Gallery Speijer & Vogtschmidt, Amsterdam
Agaath & Jos Wan Waterschoot Collection

Iran
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Thehran

Italy
State City Museum of Padova

Poland
State National Museum in Warsaw
Art Center in Legnica
BWA collections in Przemysl and Lodz

Russia
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Aleksander Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
The National Russian Library, Moscow
The State Russian Library, St.-Petersburg
The State Russian Museum, St-Petersburg
State museum of Anna Akchmatova, St-Petersburg
Ministry of Culture, Moscow
Kaliningrad Art Gallery 

Spain
Art Found of ADOGI, Barcelona

Turkey
Aydin Dogan Foundation, Hurriyet, Ankara  

Ukraine
Ministry of Culture, Kiev
Lviv State Art Gallery
The State Museum of Book Art in Kiev
Gatamelata foundation in Kiev and Dzyga Art Center in Lviv

USA
Reed College rare books collection, Portland (OR)
Gordon & Vivian Gilkey Graphic  Center, Portland (OR), IOCA, (PA)