Ihor Paliy

Ihor Paliy (Igor Palii, , born 10 May 1963) is a contemporary Ukrainian painter, specialized in abstractionism, a combination of Abstract art and Realism. The technique he mainly uses is Oil on canvas. He is a member of the Community of Artists of Ukraine.
Biography.
Igor Palii was born in 1963 in Drohobych, a regional center of Western Ukraine, in a family of musicians and child care workers. In 1986 he finished faculty of architecture at Lviv Polytechnic National University. After graduation he was involved in various architectural projects combined with canvas painting.
Sakhalin period.
In 1986, Igor Palii moved to Sakhalin island.
Polish period.
Moved back to Krakow, Poland in 1992. In 1998 Palii’s first personal exhibition in Krakow was organized. Actively participates in polish cultural life and charity campaigns. In 2004 Igor Palii participated in international Art auctions, where his oil-painted canvas “Bez Tytułu. 2001” (“Without A Title.2001”) was sold for 2,772 USD.
Turn to steel art.
Since 2002 Igor Palii turned to new art stream beginning to create his own works of art made of steel. The main cause of such turn was the need of three-dimensional figures as an addition to Palii’s paintings in a current project. In order to fulfill his new vision, Igor Palii establishes his own small enterprise of steel art production. The new turn resulted in such projects as decoration of trade center “Sophia” in the west of Ukraine, restaurant “Flamingo” in Stryi, Ukraine, “Museum of Beer”, “Aivengo” in Lviv, Ukraine. In 1999-2000 creates and implements the project of restaurant-branch “Egypt” (Stryi, Ukraine).