56 20th century Ukrainian painters

Emma Andijewska is a modern Ukrainian poet, writer and painter. Her works are marked with surrealist style. Some of Andijewska's works have been translated to English and German. Andijewska lives and works in Munich. She is a member of the National union of writers of Ukraine, Ukrainian PEN Club, Free academy in Munich and Federal association of artists.

Nikolai Bartossik is a Ukrainian-American contemporary painter and monumental artist.

Mykhailo Andrіyovich Berkos was a Russian and Ukraine artist of Greek origin. He worked mainly in the genre of landscape art and experienced a significant influence of European Impressionism. He painted in oils and watercolors. In his works he often turned to the subject of Ukrainian nature.

Roman Bezpalkiv – – was a Ukrainian painter. Genre – painting, sacral art. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1988). Honored Artist of Ukraine (1998).

Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur was a Ukrainian folk artist born in the Poltava Governorate. Her birth date is unknown but 7 December is used as her official birthday. After an unpromising start, her works became known in the late 1930s and 1940s for their interest in nature. She was named People's Artist of Ukraine. It is said that Pablo Picasso saw her work exhibited in Paris and commented,"If we had an artist of this level, we would make the whole world talk about her.".

Seraphima Iasonovna Blonskaya (Leontovskaya) was a Russian artist and art teacher.

Alexander Bogomazov or Oleksandr Bohomazov was a Ukrainian painter in the Russian Empire and USSR, known artist and modern art theoretician of the Russian Avant-garde. In 1914, Alexander wrote his treatise The Art of Painting and the Elements. In it he analyzed the interaction between Object, Artist, Picture, and Spectator and sets the theoretical foundation of modern art. During his artistic life Alexander Bogomazov mastered several art styles. The most known are Cubo-Futurism (1913–1917) and Spectralism (1920–1930).

Boris Fedorovich Borzin was born in Ukraine on December 29th, 1923 and died in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1991. He was a Soviet realism painter, graphic artist, conservator, art historian, author and a tenured professor of fine art for 30 years at the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia.,. Boris Borzin was also a veteran of the Great Patriotic War (WWII).

Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky was a Soviet painter whose work provided a blueprint for the art movement of socialist realism. He is known for his iconic portrayals of Lenin and idealized, carefully crafted paintings dedicated to the events of the Russian Civil War and Bolshevik Revolution.

Mykola Burachek was a Ukrainian Impressionist painter and pedagogue.

David Davidovich Burliuk was a Russian and Ukrainian poet, artist, publicist and book illustrator associated with the Futurist, Neo-Primitivist and Russian Futurism movements. Burliuk is often described as "the father of Russian Futurism."

Wladimir Burliuk was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist and book illustrator. He died at the age of 32 in World War I.

Jacques Hnizdovsky, (1915–1985) was a Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, graphic designer, illustrator and sculptor.

Shimshon Holzman was an Israeli landscape and figurative painter. He is known worldwide for his water color paintings.

Valentin Khrushch was a Ukrainian artist, one of the central figures of the Odessa school of unofficial art.

Yuri Ivanovych Khymych was a Ukrainian painter. He worked primarily in water colours and oil. He was an honoured artist of the Ukraine.

Michael Kmit was a Ukrainian painter who spent twenty-five years in Australia. He is notable for introducing a neo-Byzantine style of painting to Australia, and winning a number of major Australian art prizes including the Blake Prize (1952) and the Sulman Prize. In 1969 the Australian artist and art critic James Gleeson described Kmit as "one of the most sumptuous colourists of our time".

Eugène Konopatzky was Russian and Ukrainian painter and printmaker, known artist and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde.

Fyodor Filippovich Konyukhov is a Russian survivalist, voyager, aerial and marine explorer, and artist. In December 2010, he was ordained as an Eastern Orthodox priest in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Jaroslava Korol, née Kosar was a Ukrainian painter. Genre – painter, sacred art.

Fedir Krychevsky was an influential Ukrainian early modernist painter. He was the brother of graphic designer Vasyl Krychevsky.

Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky was a Ukrainian painter, architect, art scholar, graphic artist, film art consultant, pedagogue and master of applied art and decorative art. He is the designer of the 1918 Ukrainian coat of arms, state seals, banknotes. He was the brother of Ukrainian painter Fedir Krychevsky.

Viktor Krizhanivskyi was a Ukrainian painter and artist.

Olena Kulchytska was a Ukrainian artist, teacher, and civil activist.

Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov was a Russian painter and art professor at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. His work consists primarily of portraits and genre scenes.

Mykola Lebid was a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, designer, Honored Artist of Ukraine, and professor, known for watercolor paintings, graphics, design, medal art. Winner of Nikolai Ostrovsky Premium in 1986.

Stepan Mamchich, was a Crimean painter, seascape painter. One of the representatives of Cimmerian Art School.

Ivan Stepanovych Marchuk is a contemporary Ukrainian painter.

Vladislav Mikhailovich Metyolkin is a contemporary Ukrainian landscape painter.

Yevsey Yevseyevich Moiseyenko was a Soviet Russian painter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1970), full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1973), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1986).

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Murashko ; also known as Alexander Murashko and Aleksandr Murashko was a Ukrainian painter.

Victor Palmov (1888–1929) was a Ukrainian-Russian painter and avant-garde artist from the David Burliuk circle.

Sergei Parajanov was an Armenian film director, screenwriter and artist who made significant contribution to world cinema with his films Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and The Color of Pomegranates. He invented his own cinematic style, which was totally out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism. This, combined with his controversial lifestyle and behaviour, led Soviet authorities to repeatedly persecute and imprison him, and suppress his films. Despite this, Parajanov was named one of the 20 Film Directors of the Future by the prestigious Rotterdam International Film Festival, and his films were ranked among the greatest films of all time by the British Film Institute's magazine Sight & Sound.

Nikolay Kornilyevich Pimonenko, also known as Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko was a realist painter of Ukrainian descent, who lived and worked in the Russian Empire.

Ihor Podolchak is a Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist. He is a co-founder of the creative association Masoch Fund.

Ivan Pavlovitch Pokhitonov was a Russian landscape painter and graphic artist, who spent much of his working life in France and Belgium.

Leonid Vladimirovitch Pozen (1849–1921) was a Russo-Ukrainian sculptor and politician. Most of his works were made using wax and then cast in bronze at the K. Werfel factory in St Petersburg. His early works show his attraction to animal sculpture. His realism placed Pozen alongside the painters Vasily Perov, Grigory Myasoyedov, and Ivan Kramskoy.

Maria Pryimachenko (1908–1997) was a Ukrainian village folk art painter, representative of naïve art. The artist was involved with drawing, embroidery and painting on ceramics.

Sasha Putrya was a Ukrainian artist who became notable through painting thousands of artworks, before dying at the age of 11 from leukemia.

Maria Dmitreyevna Raevskaia-Ivanova was a Ukrainian Russian Empire painter and art teacher. In 1868, she became the first woman in the Russian Empire to be awarded the title of "Free Artist" by the Imperial Academy of Arts.

Vasiliy Ryabchenko is a Ukrainian painter, photographer, and installation artist. One of the key figures in contemporary Ukrainian art, and the "New Ukrainian Wave".

Nikolay Semyonovich Samokish was a Russian and Soviet painter and illustrator of Cossack descent who specialized in military art and animal painting. During the First World War Samokish was a correspondent for The Russian Sun, one of the most popular patriotic journals in Imperial Russia. He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1941.

Ivan Fyodorovich Seleznyov was a Russian Imperial painter and art teacher, known mostly for his historical paintings.

Manuil Iosipovich Shechtman was a Ukrainian-born painter of Jewish ancestry.

Nikolay Havrylovych Shmatko was a Ukrainian sculptor and painter. He was born in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

Marina Skugareva is a Ukrainian painter, one of the representatives of the "New Ukrainian Wave" in contemporary art.

Opanas Georgievych (Heorhiiovych) Slastion (1855–1933) was a Ukrainian graphic artist, painter, and ethnographer.

Anton (Anatole) P. Solomoukha was a Ukrainian-born French artist and photographer, and a foreign member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts. From 1980, he specialized in narrative figuration. After 2000, he developed photo projects and is known as the inventor of a new form of expression in contemporary photography: “Photo painting”. In it, he associates the photographic image with pictorial research in tableaux frequently requiring a multitude of models.

Serhiy Svetoslavsky was a Ukrainian and Russian landscape painter, most notable for his cityscapes.

Vladimir Tatlin was a Russian-Ukrainian and Soviet painter, architect and stage-designer. Tatlin achieved fame as the architect who designed The Monument to the Third International, more commonly known as Tatlin's Tower, which he began in 1919. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the Constructivist movement.

Oleg Tistol is a Ukrainian artist, a representative of Ukrainian neo-baroque and one of the leaders of the “New Ukrainian Wave”.

Mykola Ivanovych Tseluiko, born 3 July 1937, died 31 October 2007, was a Ukrainian painter and textile artist.

Tetyana Yablonska was a Ukrainian painter. Her early vital pictures are devoted to work and a life of Ukrainian people. She has passed to generalizing images of the nature, differing a subtlety of plastic and color rhythms.

Myroslav Yahoda, sometime transliterated as Yagoda was a painter, graphic artist, poet, novelist, playwright and set designer. The "Ukrainian Goya" — with true integrity in his diverse art — was a prominent figure in the Ukrainian underground art scene.

Vasyl Yermylov (Yermilov) (1894–1968) was a Ukrainian painter, avant-garde artist and designer. His genres included cubism, constructivism, and neo-primitivism.

Halyna Olexandrivna Zubchenko was a Ukrainian painter, muralist, social activist and member of the Club of Creative Youth. She joined the Union of Artists of Ukraine in 1965.