Biography
Victor Ratushny (1952-2020) was born allegedly in the Vinnytsia region, USSR.
1954 — the parents moved to the city of Odessa.
1968-72 — he studied at the Odessa machine-tool college.
1975-84 — he worked at the Odessa Film Studio as the second operator of feature films.
1984-89 — he worked as a photographer in the Publishing House Mayak.
1989 — he moved to permanent residence in the city of New York, USA.
1994-95 — under the leadership of Philip Jones Griffiths, he collaborated with the Magnum New York office as a free-lance photographer.
1995-98 — he worked as a freelance photographer with the Motion Picture Services film studio.
1998-2001 — he collaborated with Blue magazine as a free-lance photographer.
2002 — he returned to the city of Odessa. He traveled a lot and worked on his own photographic projects around the world.
Since 2015 — member of the Noga Creative Union.
Solo exhibitions
2020 — Odessa: Photos 1985, Posthumous exhibition (curated by Misha Maslennikov), Photo salon Paparazzi, Odessa, Ukraine.
2019 — India: Dream of Varanasi, Odessa Museum Western & Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine.
2018 — Kinburn Spit, Odessa Museum Western & Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine.
2014 — 4 stories, Art-living room of the Odessa Linguistic Center, Odessa, Ukraine.
2013 — Children of the Night, Odessa Museum Western & Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine.
2010 — 7 seconds of silence, Odessa Museum Western & Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine. Series 'Ocean of Silence'.
2006 — Children of the Night, Odessa Rehabilitation Center “Doroga k Domu”, Odessa, Ukraine.
2003 — Good News, Gallery at the Holy Archangel Michael Monastery, Odessa, Ukraine.
2002 — September 11 before and after, Gallery at the Holy Archangel Michael Monastery, Odessa, Ukraine.
1998 — Athos Diary, Odessa Museum Western & Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine.
1995 — Between Two Realities, Gallery of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine.
Group exhibitions
2021 — NCU 15 years old, VI International festival of photography 'Fotokrok' named Sigismund Yurkovsky, Vitebsk Center of the Modern Art, Vitebsk, Belarus.
2020 — Noga Creative Union, Thin Line Photo Festival, Odessa Museum Western & Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine.
1993 — Emancipation, together with the schedule Alexander Silver, Anyway Cafe, Manhattan, New York, USA.
Museum collection
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
