Iliya Mirochnik

Expertise: Figure drawing and painting
Teaches at Ringling College of Art and Design
First place winner of the American Portrait Society’s 2013 International Portrait Competition

Iliya Mirochnik immigrated to the United States from Odesa, Ukraine in the early 1990s with his family. In 2013, Mirochnik gained his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting at the prestigious Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in St. Petersburg, Russia. In his paintings, he aims to connect the Russian aesthetic with American sensibilities, creating images that go beyond their origins. He has been the recipient of several prestigious scholarships and awards in the United States and Russia, winning the “First Place” award in the American Portrait Society’s International Portrait Competition. Mirochnik has exhibited in the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions in New York City and Salzburg, Austria. In 2015, he was selected to develop his design for a public monument for Icon Bay Residences in Miami, Florida in collaboration with The Related Group architecture firm. Since 2018, Mirochnik has been a full-time professor at the Ringling College of Art and Design where he teaches painting and drawing in the Illustration and Game Design Departments.