Oleksandr Suprun

In progress
Biography
January 18, 1945

Born in the village of Berezivka, Kharkiv region, Ukraine

1962 - 1968

Years of study at Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute (now NTU KhPI)

1965

Joined the photo club at the PC KHEMZ (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

1966

First participation in a club photo exhibition (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

1972

Joined the creative group “Vremya” (“Time”). Defended a dissertation. Received the academic degree of “Candidate of Technical Sciences”

1973

The first solo exhibition in Kharkiv (Ukraine)

1973

First participation in the all-Union photo exhibition (Ostrova, Czechoslovakia)

1873 - 1980

Worked as a research associate at the research institute of mine construction (Kharkiv)

1981

Moved to a teaching position at the Kharkiv Art and Industrial Institute (now Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts)

1988

The first solo exhibition abroad (Zaragoza, Spain)

1989

Appointed as Associate Professor at the Kharkiv Art and Industrial Institute (now Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts)

1989

Selected as a delegate of the founding conference of the Union of Photographic Artists of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

1991

Invited with a personal exhibition to the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (USA)

1991

Conferred academic title “Associate Professor”

1995

Became a laureate of the municipal award (Kharkiv)

1997

Became a laureate of the Maselskyi Prize (Kharkiv)

1999

Awarded a diploma for outstanding personal contribution to the development of the National Union of Photographers of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2013

Became a member of the creative association “Foto art” (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

Exhibitions
1973
First solo exhibition
1985
Second solo exhibition
1988
Alexandr Suprun
1988
Alexandr Suprun
1989
Oleksandr Suprun. Photographs
1990
Oleksandr Suprun. Photographs
1991
Contemporary Soviet Photographers
1993
Contemporary Ukrainian photographers
1994
Memories of America
1994
Photographs of Oleksandr Suprun
1995
Oleksandr Suprun. Photographs
1995
Oleksandr Suprun. Photographs
1995
Oleksandr Suprun. Photographs
1997
O. Suprun. Photos. Photo exhibition.
1998
My Ukraine
1999
The Photography of Eugene Pavlov and Oleksandr Suprun
2000
Kharkiv. 60s–90s. Photo/video.
2002
Installation world of Oleksandr Suprun
2004
60 x 40
2005
Gold
2005
Retrospective
2008.10.19
Ukrainian Photography Laboratory, within the framework of the III International Photography Festival «KyivPhotoCom»
2008
Dispersion
2008
Kharkiv Photography of the Late 20th–Early 21st Century
2011
Colleagues
2012
Nearby
2013.10.31
Act of Disobedience. The Body as Protest in Kharkiv Photography 1970–2010
2014
50x70
2019.06.28
Forbidden image
2014.11.17
Kharkiv School of Photography: from Soviet censorship to a new aesthetic