Igor Bojko Odescky artist sixties a member of the creative team "mom"

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Bozhko Igor Antonovich (Brief creative biography).

Born in 1937 in Kharkov.

In 1966 he graduated from the Odessa Art College (painting department).
In the late sixties and seventies, took an active part in the apartment exhibitions. He arranged some of his personal. One of them, in Odessa House actor lasted two days and then was shut down on orders from above. During these years, worked as an artist in the newspaper "Komsomolskaya spark". Engaged in drawing, he began writing short stories and novels. In 1973 he was admitted to the Union of Journalists of the USSR.

In 1991, working in the independent newspaper "South", was elected by a group of artists from Odessa (about seventy people) was the first chairman TOHa (Creative Union of Artists). Exhibitions TOHa the House of Scientists, Institute of Construction and the Palais Royal had great success with the public and widely reported in the press.

In 1994, I. Bojko comes with the Union of Artists of Ukraine and creates (with the assistance of Y. Mazur, W. Marinyuka, Savchenko, V. Tsyupko, V. Basantsa) Creative Union of Artists "Choven", which includes about forty people. Became director of the eponymous gallery. In the same year arranged a large exhibition "chovnyarov" in the Odessa Museum of Western and Oriental art. Published catalog of their works. In 1996, Choven "took first place in the exhibition-competition of creative unions of Ukraine in Khmelnitsky.
 
In the middle of the ninetieth created a group of nine like-minded artists (in matters of Contemporary Art) - "Mama". They include Valery Basanets, Igor Bojko, Victor Marinyuk, Sergei Savchenko, Vasil Garden, Alexander Stovbur, Vladimir Strelnikov, Nikolai Stepanov, Vladimir Tsyupko. This group is due to its exhibition activities became known not only for Ukraine but also abroad. She represented Ukraine in the fine art of "Three Days in Poland".

In one of his articles in the journal Obrazotvorche Mistetstvo, art critic Oleg Ostapenko wrote: "The paintings Igor Bojko attract viewers' attention the relevance of subjects, boldness and originality of imaginative solutions, lapidary art language, the inventiveness of composite solutions, clarity and shape, rigorous selection of picture elements, rhythm, a special sense of monumentality. In his works displayed an intellectual understanding of, and philosophical view of reality by the artist. "

I. Bojko awarded the Medal of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. In 2010, the Council of Regional Organizations of the National Union of Artists to the rank of Honored Artist of Ukraine.

In addition to his work designed by I. Bojko engaged literature. At various times, the book of his prose, "Colors of Memory" and repeated prose published in Odessa almanac Deribasivska - Rishelyevskaya ", in Russian magazines" Change "(with a foreword by the Belarusian writer Vasil Bykov) and" October ", collections of poetry," Queue " "Dry grass", "Year of a sparrow, as well as collections of poetry in the international literary publication Khreshchatyk (Germany, 2007), in the magazines" Children of Ra "and" new reality "(Russia, 2010). I. Bojko is the winner of the magazine "Change" (1988) for the story "accordion."