Yaroslav Leonets Joins the Ukrainian Fund of Digitized Art
Anna Cherevko
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The Ukrainian Fund of Digitized Art is proud to welcome a new artist, Yaroslav Leonets — a contemporary Ukrainian creator whose practice spans painting, graphics, and sculpture, while also exploring diverse forms and materials.
About Yaroslav Leonets
The artist was born in 1994 in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. Since his childhood, Yaroslav has been seeking a way to express his feelings nonverbally. Through his artistic practice, he has found a means to reveal and communicate what he truly feels.
Between 2012 and 2021, Yaroslav devoted himself to education. He graduated from the Kharkiv Art College and continued his studies at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, specializing in Fine Arts with a focus on easel painting. He later earned a Master’s degree in Monumental Painting from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv.
Yaroslav Leonets’s art has been showcased in numerous solo and group exhibitions. The artist has taken part in various residencies and plein-air sessions.
Yaroslav Leonets’s Art Style
Yaroslav Leonets’s original paintings span the genres of landscape, genre composition, and portrait.
The artist works in the styles of realism, impressionism, and expressionism. His favorite genres include landscape, genre composition, and portrait.
As the artist himself has said, he has always been inspired by the search for new forms of communication with the world; consequently, his childhood exploration has become the work of his life.
Click to see Prayer by Yaroslav Leonets in full resolution
In his artistic practice, Yaroslav Leonets primarily seeks to convey the beauty of nature and highlight ecological issues. He is deeply interested in the relationship between humans and nature, as well as themes of identity. His work also explores social topics, aiming to depict priceless, unrepeatable moments of life—childhood sensations, the transience and truth of the surrounding world, family values and paradoxes, joy and unrest, love and inner fears.
Digitized Works
UFDA has digitized 84 artworks by Yaroslav Leonets, including pieces created in 2025. Among them are String Melody, Canary and Miner, Quiet Place, Canyon, Spring Day, and more.
To see more digitized works by Yaroslav Leonets, visit his profile on the UFDA platform.
