This is stated in the relevant decree No. 946/2019, dated December 24, 2019, which was published on the website of the President of Ukraine.
Ivan Marchuk Stepanovych – born in 1936, Ukrainian artist, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko, is among the outstanding cultural figures who were awarded a lifetime state scholarship.
Earlier, at the beginning of 2018, the NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” took the initiative to grant the world-famous Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk a lifetime scholarship from the President of Ukraine. Our activists collected the necessary documents and submitted an application.
Ivan Marchuk is a laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Award, Honorary Citizen of Kyiv and Ternopil, artist. Articles about the Ukrainian artist were included in the world’s most authoritative encyclopedias, and his creative method “Plontanism” was included in the textbooks of academic art institutions. The artist’s work includes about 5,000 works. He held more than 150 personal and about 50 collective exhibitions.
