Mykola Storozhenko (painter)

Upon graduating the institute, Storozhenko started working on a new technology of mosaic, hot and cold encaustic, and tested the new approaches to the color circle and monotype making. He created works such as "Kyiv Mohyla Academy of the 17th—18th centuries" (Kyiv, Feofania), mosaic "Scythian Ukraine: Hellas of the Steppes" (Gilea Hotel, Kherson region), mosaic "Brightened with the Light" (Kyiv), hot encaustic, "The Trinity murals in the cupola of St. Mykola Prytyska Church (Kyiv), cold encaustic and others.

Since 1994, Storozhenko has been the head of the Studio of Painting and Iconographic Art and of the Department of Training at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Students from the United States, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, Egypt, France, Italy, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, Greece are Storozhenko's pupils.

Storozhenko won the 1988 Shevchenko National Prize among other awards. His works were exhibited in Asia, Europe and the United States. He was a professor and department head at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kiev for several decades.

Since1974, Storozhenko has been working as a pedagogue in the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture holding professor office at the Subfaculty of Painting and Composition.

While studying in the institute, in 1953–1954, Storozhenko visited Kazakhstan and Altai and created more than eight hundred sketches of farmers in those areas. Upon completion of his studies at the institute in 1956, Storozhenko wribg a thesis titles "The First Shoots". In 1957, this work was exhibited at the 6th International Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow; its author was a participant in the festival's international fine arts studio.

Mykola (Nikolay Andreyevich) Storozhenko (24 September 1928 – 15 April 2015) was a Ukrainian painter., author and academic.

Storozhenko was born on 24 September 1928, in the village of Viazove, Konotop District, in what was then the Soviet Union. In 1945, after completing his 7th year of school, Storozhenko entered Odessa State Art College where some of his teachers were M. A. Sheliuto and L. Y. Muchnyk. After graduating in 1950, he entered the Kyiv State Institute of Arts. His teachers were Tetyana Yablonska, M. A. Sharonov, and S. O. Hryhoriev, all of whom are recognised as outstanding Ukrainian painters.