Oleh Tatarynov

Oleh Tatarynov

Scenographer, costume designer and painter

Born in 1978.

Lecturer at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv. Chief Designer of the Kyiv Academic Theatre for Young Audiences in Lypky, where he has designed around thirty productions. He is curator of the Danylo Lider Triennale of Scenography in Kyiv, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, an Honoured Art Worker of Ukraine, and recipient of the Danylo Lider “Artist” Award of the Kyiv Organisation of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2018). In 2022, he was awarded the National Union of Artists of Ukraine Medal for Creative Achievement.

Tatarynov graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv in 1996.

Since 1998, he has collaborated with national and municipal theatres in cities and regions across Ukraine, including the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre in Kyiv, the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre in Ivano-Frankivsk, the Lesia Ukrainka National Academic Drama Theatre in Kyiv, the Mykolaiv National Academic Ukrainian Theatre of Drama and Musical Comedy, the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Taras Shevchenko Cherkasy Academic Music and Drama Theatre, the Mykhailo Starytskyi Khmelnytskyi Academic Music and Drama Theatre, and the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre (The Mariupol Drama Theater).

He is also actively involved in exhibition and curatorial projects. Among them are the Danylo Lider Triennale of Scenography; exhibitions at the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine, the National Museum “Kyiv Art Gallery”, and the Exhibition Hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine in Kyiv (2025); the international exhibition “Character on the Theatre Stage: Ukraine – Lithuania” at the Lithuanian Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema in Vilnius (2025); and the Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography 2025. He also took part in three exhibitions within the international project Ukrainian Theatre Costume of the 20th–21st Centuries: Identity, Context, Landscape in Kyiv, Lviv and Lublin, supported by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and the Ukrainian Institute.

Tatarynov was a participant in the Ukrainian Pavilion Garden of Living Things at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2023 and in the Ukrainian Pavilion at the Tbilisi Biennale of Stage Design 2020.