Michael Reva

Mikhail was born on March 13, 1960 in the Kerch city (Crimea). In 1966, he moved with his parents to Odessa (Ukraine). After high school, Mikhail served army (1980-1982). On his return to Odessa, he worked in the sculpture art fund where he met his future wife Tatyana Kushniruk. At the age of 25, Mikhail entered the Academy of Decorative V.N. Mukhina (now St. Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy named AL Stieglitz) and applied Art and Design. In the Academy his teachers was Lyudmila Pavlovna Kalugina, sculpture - Anatoly Gordeevich Dyoma, paint - Peter Izrailevich Puko and design - Igor Pavlovich Shmelev.

Michael Reva :"It was a happy time. The floodgate of information just started to open, and we were overwhelmed with a desire of creating our new "concord of the day",a new world.We were sitting till dawn talking about art,our souls were glowing in a sincere impulse.What a powerful aspiration it was - to work,to dream,to create...Today I remember that time as a time of hope, a time of discovery, of such an amazing thirst, that much as we revelled in art and in freedom, it was never enough. Five years of my student life passed like a flash.Trying to reminisce that time in details, I recall all my Institute works. And everything else is remembered as one huge continuous cognitive moment. A moment , in which the entire Universe fell upon me!"

He received the Gold Medal from Academy of Arts of the USSR for the best diploma in the field of architectural and decorative plastics in 1990. The Academy of Arts sent Mikhail to Rome (Italy) to Villa Abamelec. After the end of the internship he returned to Odessa. Mikhail was the creator of the "Angel of Mercy" for the children's rehabilitation center "Future", founder of this unique complex was the famous Odessa activist Boris Davidovich Litvak. "Do not refuse good deeds when your hand is able to do it" written on the bay window, under the gold angel.
The works of Michael is diverse and active to this day. Monuments created by Reva became a landmark of the city - a monument dedicated to I. Ilf and E. Petrov "The Twelfth Chair", "The Tree of Love", the Source fountain near the Vorontsov Palace, the park sculpture "Odessa Time" and many other art objects.

• 1984 Exhibition "Land and People" in the "Manege" Moscow, USSR
• 1985-1990 Studied at the Academy of Decorative and Applied Art and Design (until 1992 - Higher Art and Industrial School named after VN Mukhina). St. Petersburg.
• 1986 Laureate of the competition to create the prize of the international film festival "Golden Duke"
• 1990 Received the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR for the best diploma in the field of architectural and decorative plastics.
• 1991-1992 Practiced in Italy, at the Roman Academy of Arts.
• 1992 Personal exhibition in the House of the Artist. Moscow, Russia
• 1993 Joined the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.
• 1994 International exhibition of miniature sculptures, dedicated to "Divine Comedy" Dante. Ravenna Italy, participation in the UNESCO auction of UNICEF. Paris, France
• 1995 "Gateway to ..." - a solo exhibition within the framework of the international conference dedicated to V.V. Kandinsky in the Museum of Western and Eastern Art. Odessa, Ukraine
• 1996 "Dreams of Montezuma" - personal exhibition within the framework of the international project "Communication" Caracas, Venezuela
• 1997 Grand Prix of the International Festival of Arts "Golden Peretin" Kiev, Ukraine
• 1998 Third Prize of the 110th International Biennial "Libr'Art" Libramont, Belgium
• 2000 Personal exhibition "Altar of children's dreams". Children's Rehabilitation Center, Odessa, Ukraine, Participation in the exhibition "20 artists of Ukraine at the end of the 20th century". National Museum of Art, Kiev
• 2001 Participation in the exhibition "Ten Years of Independence of Ukraine" Institute of Ukraine in New York. USA
• 2003 Exhibition "Decorative and Applied Art of Ukraine of the ХХ century, 200 names". Ukrainian House, Kiev
• 2004 Awarded the title "Honored Artist of Ukraine"
• 2005 Personal exhibition "7305". Museum of Western and Oriental art. Odessa, Ukraine
• 2007 Awarded the title of Professor of the Moscow Branch of the International Academy of Architecture MAAM, Russia
• 2007 Laureate of the National Competition in Architecture "Creation", the first prize in the nomination "Public Interior" Odessa, Ukraine.
• 2010 First prize in the international competition for the creation of the memorial and museum complex "Babi Yar" Kiev Ukraine
• 2013 The first prize in the international competition for the best idea for art installation in the atrium of the department store TSUM Kyiv Ukraine
• 2014 Exhibition "Ukrainian Breakthrough", Center for Contemporary Art. Odessa, Ukraine
• 2016 Opening of the Reva Foundation
• 2017 Member of the Presidential Council World Club of Odessites

• 1993 Source "Fountain" dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Odessa
• 1994-1995 Bas-reliefs "Four Sides of the World" to the monumental sculpture of Ernst Neizvestny "The Golden Child". Odessa.
• 1996 "Angel of Mercy" - a monumental sculpture, bronze with gilding, installed over the entrance to the rehabilitation center for disabled children, Odessa.
• 1997 A complex of fountains on a biblical theme for the residence of the US ambassador to Ukraine. Kiev, Creation of the project "Slavic shrines" for the National Treasury of Ukraine.
• 1988,1990,1994 "Grand prix" for the International Film Festival "Golden Duke". Odessa.
• 1998 Peter Berg Prize "For overcoming the impossible", ordered by the National Geographic Society of Great Britain.
• 1999 "12th chair", bronze park sculpture, installed - st. Deribasovskaya, Odessa,
• 1999 Competition project of monumental sculpture commissioned by the Amsterdam municipality "Apple Adam", Holland.
• 2001 Competition project of the monumental sculpture "Crystal Dream" for the public project "3 acres on the lake", Chicago, USA
• 2003 Project and sculptures of the business center "Leonardo", Kiev, Ukraine
• 2006 Sculptural composition "The Tree of Love" Odessa
• 2005 Monument "In memory of the victims of terrorism around the world" Kyiv, Ukraine
• 2006 Sculptural composition "The Heart of the World" Children's Rehabilitation Center for Disabled Children Odessa
• 2007 Interior design of the hotel complex "Intrercontinental" Kiev
• 2007-2008 sculpture "The Grain of Life" together with Angelo Farion (Moscow).
• 2009 Competitive architectural project of the memorial and museum complex "Babi Yar" Kiev, Ukraine
• 2009 Fountain for the Intercontinental Hotel Potok (bronze, gold leaf) Kiev
• 2011 Project of the fountain, sculptural compositions and design of the Swisshotel Odessa Hotel
• 2011 Architectural project of the monument Isaac Babel sculptor Georgiy Vartanovich Frangulyan, Odessa
• 2012 The project "Trilogy of the Vine" (bronze, gilding) for the "Wine Culture Center of Shabo", Odessa region
• 2012 Sculptural composition "City-Center" (steel, paint) Odessa, Ukraine
• 2013 Sculpture "Stones" (sheet iron, pebbles), graphic project "Odessa series" (paper, ink)
• 2014 Kinetic sculptural compositions "Sea flowers" (steel, plastic) the central avenue of Arcadia beach (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Q4eRhIGqA)
• 2015 Park Sculpture "Odessa Time" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpN8Ujk0Nqg)
• 2016 The tomb of Bogdan Stupka (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRQLVvVTwog) (Kiev)

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