Yurii Patsan (Ukrainian: Пацан Юрій Іванович, born December 11, 1963, in the village of Parkhomivka, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian artist. Knight of the "Order of Merit" of the III degree (2008), Honored Artist of Ukraine since (2014).
Honorary member of the People's Academy of Arts for the Disabled of Ukraine (2003). Head of the Kyiv region organization of creativity of the disabled. The liquidator of the accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant of the II category. Participant of all-Ukrainian and international exhibitions and festivals.
Biography
In 1991 he graduated from the Irpin Industrial College.
From 1986 he worked at the Institute of Radiology, until 1999 – a turner at the plant.
Creativity
He began to draw after a terrible car accident in 1999, which confined him to a wheelchair. Icons became the first serious theme in creativity.
Author of over 800 works. The main direction is landscapes.