Susanna
Konstantinovna Smeyan

Ukraine • born in 1940

Biography and information

Laugh Susanna Konstantinovna.

Honored artist of Ukraine (1991)
Member of the National Union of artists of Ukraine (1983)

Born September 12, 1940 in the town of Novhorod-Siversky in Chernigiv region (Ukraine).
1960 – graduated from Loscoe College of applied arts. I. Trush(Department of art ceramics).
1966 – graduated from Lviv state Institute of applied and decorative arts(Department of art ceramics).
1970 –graduated from the graduate school of the Leningrad higher art-industrial school im. V. Mukhina( Russia), Department of art glass.Speciality – artist of decorative art.
1970-1975: worked as a lecturer in the Department of ceramics and glass of the Lviv state Institute of applied and decorative art.
1975-1997 - painter,senior painter of the Kiev factory of artistic glass.
The first Kyiv artists turned to plastic and spatial forms close to sculpture.
Applied innovation for the plant reception decoration products,using effect contrast colored stripes, sparse threads and "millefiori". This decor is muted matte finish after sandblasting.
Since 1960 – member of about 150 Republican, all-Union, all-Ukrainian and international art and industrial exhibitions.
Her original works were exhibited at exhibitions in Ukraine,Russia,Belarus, France, Italy, Koreii,1977 in Los Angeles
the exhibition "the National art of Ukraine in the United States."
Made a great contribution to the development of free-blown glass Ukraine.

Major works:
theme song "Cosmos", "World of planet Earth",
sets the "Golden autumn", "Peacocks" vases "Tenderness", "Roses",
composition "lilacs", "Flowers", "Morning".

Works are kept in museums of Ukraine.