Exhibit's designer: Ihor Zhuk of Lviv (04/14/02)

Exhibit's designer: Ihor Zhuk of Lviv

Ihor Zhuk, is not only the conceptual author of the exhibit "Ornament is Not a Crime," but is its designer, architectural photographer and writer of the descriptive notes.

Dr. Zhuk was born in Lviv in 1956. Having graduated from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Art, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Art, Folklore and Ethnography of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In 1989 he defended his doctoral thesis, which was titled "Decorative Details in Lviv Art Nouveau Architecture: Principles of Morphology and Systematization."

Since 2000 Dr. Zhuk has been engaged as the curator of the collection of visual materials at the Lviv Theological Academy and director of the Leopolis Project, an electronic archive of the history of Ukrainian art developed by LTA.

The list of his works includes a number of art history publications, exhibition projects and electronic information resources. Among his scholarly awards are the Getty Research Fellowship for Scholars from Central and Eastern Europe, the British Academy Visiting Fellowship, and grants of the Fulbright Program, the Soros Foundation and IREX.

Dr. Zhuk visited the United States as a participant of the Victorian Society of America Summer School in 1995, of the Getty Summer Institute at the University of Rochester in 1999, and several times as a guest scholar of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

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