KORZH LESIA

Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2012). She was born in Khust in the famous art family: her father Bohdan Korzh – Honoured Artist of Ukraine, famous sculptor; her mother Liudmyla Korzh-Radko – Honoured Artist of Ukraine, graphic artist, pedagogue; her brother Taras Korzh – a painter, graphic designer. In 1998, she graduated from Uzhhorod College of Arts named after A. Erdeli specialty "art pottery", and in 2004 – the Department of Art Ceramics of Lviv National Academy of Arts. In 2004 – 2010 she worked as a teacher at the Kyiv National University of Technology and Design (Faculty in Cherkasy).

Since 2011 – senior research worker of Cherkasy Art Museum. She is working on her thesis in art history, she is the author of journalistic and scientific articles. In 2016, together with K. Platon she founded “Project of Art Studio of K. Platon and L. Korzh” in Moshny village in Cherkasy. As an artist she realizes herself in different forms of art: painting and sculpture, easel and book graphics.

The artist is engaged in art ceramics and pottery textile techniques and children's toys, the author's decorations and making pysanky. A notable place in her creativity is occupied by works performed in batik technique. The style of her works is constantly changing from modern plastics to authentic motifs, from realistic interpretation to an attempt to maximize the decorative image, from the expression of colour and image symbology.

Since 1996 she has been an active participant of regional, all-Ukrainian, international art exhibitions, symposia, and plein air in Ukraine, Slovakia, and Hungary. She had six personal exhibitions in Transcarpathia and Cherkasy. She is  the laureate of the 1st prize of the International Youth Picture Plein Air in Przemysl (Poland); the 3rd prize of the All-Ukrainian exhibition "Triennial of sculpture-2008" and the 1st prize of the Cherkassy regional exhibition-contest "Love. The eternal theme of art-2010". Her works are kept in several Russian museums, as well as in private collections in Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Canada, and Australia.