Hryhorii Havrylenko was a Ukrainian artist, a representative of Ukrainian avant-garde art, and part of the Sixtiers generation.

He was born in 1927. After the family's property was confiscated in 1930, they fled to Georgia. Later, his father was sent to a labor camp. Following these events, Hryhorii’s mother returned with the children to their native village, where they were given shelter. Eventually, the family resettled in Hlukhiv, Sumy region.

From 1945 to 1949, Havrylenko studied at the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State Art School, and from 1949 to 1955, he studied first in the painting department and later in the graphics department of the Kyiv Art Institute.

In the early 1960s, he briefly taught at the Kyiv Art Institute, but soon was dismissed for ideological reasons. Havrylenko worked in easel painting, easel, and book graphics, creating landscapes and portraits.

The artist participated in republican, all-Union, and international art exhibitions from 1955 onward, including exhibiting in Leipzig in 1965. Solo exhibitions were held in Kyiv in 1974 and 1980.

Hryhorii Havrylenko passed away in 1984.