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(11.08.1960, Kobuleti, Georgia), Belarusian graphic artist and painter. Graduated from the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Vitebsk State Pedagogical Institute named after S. M. Kirov (1986). Teacher of graphics, painting, composition at the Department of Fine Arts of the Masherov Moscow State University (since 1989), associate professor (2007). Member of the creative association "Vitebsk watercolor" (1995). Member of the Belarusian Union of Artists (1997). Lives in Vitebsk. Works in easel painting, graphics, watercolors. Animalism, mythological and legendary fairy-tale plots, nudes, abstract painting occupy a significant place in his work. The works are characterized by a philosophical, at times romantic, orientation, experiments with color and texture. Among the main works: "Adoration of the Magi" (1993), "Bird of Paradise Sirin" (1994), "Still Life with a parrot" (1994), "Oriental fairy Tale" (1994), "Old Legend" (1995), "Time of the bull" (1995), "Abduction of Europe"(1995), "Blue Bird" (1997), "meeting" (1998), "bather" (1998), "Melodies of summer" (1999), "south wind" (2000), "Belarusian mounds" (2001), "under the sign of the Lion" (2002), "tigers" (2002), "winter evening" (2002), "golden rain" (2002), "chrysanthemums" (2003), "Scheherazade" (2003), "the artist and the painting. Dedicated to G. Klimt "" 2003), " Day of Birds "" 2004); etchings "rosehip flower" (1991), "after a thunderstorm" (1993), "Slavic fairy tale" (1995); monotypes "Dragon-2" (1991), "Red Forest" (1995), "Pendulum" (1991); watercolors "Evening" (1991), "Scream rooster" (1994), "Owl" (1995), "lilies" (1996), "Vitebsk motif" (1996), "fox" (1997), "wolf" (1997), "Indian summer" (1998), "morning" (1999), "Still Life with pumpkin" (1999), "Vitebsk Town Hall" (2000), "the beginning of autumn" (2000), "Moonlight night" (2000), "evening" (2000), "autumn frosts" (2000), "autumn in Vitebsk" (2000), "Bambi" (2001), "wolf. White Night" (2001), "Early Snow" (2001), "Pink Evening" (2001), "Foggy Morning" (2001), "after the rain" (2001), "Mild winter" (2001), "Lynx" (2001), "Morning on the Lake" (2001), "Quiet Day" (2001), "Warm Evening" (2002), "circus horse" (2002), "white dove" (2002), "Winter Fairy Tale" (2002), "winter" (2002), "church in Slobodka" (2002), "after the rain" (2003), "Still Life with grapes" (2004), "gladioli" (2006), "pomegranate evening" (2007), "Danae" (2007), "formula of light" (2007), "pheasant" (2008), "Blue Bird" (2008), "the Year of the Tiger" (2008), etc. Exhibitions < /strong>< /p > • "Art Season" (1 work, canvas, acrylic), Exhibition Hall of the Museum "CSI", Vitebsk, December 2013– January 2014. < br> * Paths (3 works, acrylic) Museum "CSI", Vitebsk, March. * International art project "Collegium" (2 works, canvas, acrylic) Orsha. * Personal exhibition " H2O. Red Level" (37 works, oil, acrylic, watercolor, object and installation) March 21 - April 19, 2014. * "Spring Mood" (4 works, oil on canvas), Vitebsk Art Museum, Vitebsk. * Foreign group exhibition "Poetry of Color" together with teachers, students and undergraduates of the People's Republic of China (organization and participation: 2 works, canvas, acrylic), State Budgetary Institution of Culture of Moscow "Khodynka Exhibition Hall", Moscow, April 12 – April 27, 2014. * International Art Competition "Cut in Art" (1 work, photo) Mikhail Shemyakin Artist Foundation, St. Petersburg, April 22 – August 31, 2014. * Republican exhibition dedicated to the Hockey World Championship (1 work, canvas, acrylic) Minsk, Palace of Arts, April 30-May 18, 2014. * Republican art project "ZOOparking / Noah's Ark / 2" (37 authors, 80 works, curator of the project and participant: 5 works) Vitebsk Art Museum, Vitebsk, May 27-June 25, 2014. * "Portrait of the city" (1 work, oil on canvas) CSI Museum, Vitebsk, June 27 – July 2014. < br> * Art exhibition " Tour de Belarus. Prologue." (3 works, canvas, acrylic, oil). Minsk, Palace of Arts, October 23 - November 9, 2014. * VI International Exhibition of watercolor painting "Aquabiennale" (1 work, watercolor). Russia, Petrozavodsk, city Exhibition hall, November 13 - December 5, 2014. * Exhibition "Muse" (4 works, oil on canvas). Vitebsk, CSI Museum, March 14-31, 2013. < br> * Personal exhibition "Sale of images" (painting, 27 works). Minsk," Art Gallery " BSH, April 2-16, 2013. < br> * Open-air exhibition of teachers and undergraduates of the Masherov VSU (China), 4 studies. Mogilev Regional Art Museum named after P. V. Maslenikov, April 2013. < br> * Exhibition of works by Vitebsk artists (2 works, oil on canvas). Vitebsk, Art Museum, May 2013. < br> * 4th International Watercolor Biennale "water+ paint" (2 watercolors). Polotsk-Novgorod, Art Gallery, June-November 2013. * Exhibition of HGF teachers in Smolensk (2 works). October-November 2013 LITERATURE 1.  Oleg Kostogryz: exhibition catalog / Vitebsk Regional Library named after V. I. Lenin, Department of Literature on Art; [comp. O. A. Dorofeev]. - Vitebsk, 2008. - p. 14. 2.  Tsybulsky, M. L. Kostogriz Oleg Danilovich / M. L. Kostogriz // The Belarusian Encyclopedia : in 18 volumes / editor : G. P. Pashkov (gal. Ed.) [and others]. - Mn. : Bellen, 1999. - Vol. 8. — p. 153. 3.  Tsybulsky, M. L. Kostogryz Oleg Danilovich / M. L. Tsybulsky // Regions of Belarus: an encyclopedia. in 7 t. / editorial board : T. V. Belova (see Belova). ed.) [and others]. - Mn. : Belorusus. The encyclical. the name of P. Brovka, 2010. - Vol. 2: Vitebsk region. Book 1. - p. 523.