Nikolai Bartossik


Nikolai Bartossik is a Ukrainian-American contemporary painter and monumental artist.

Personal background

Nikolai Bartossik was born on April 5, 1951, in the Polkivnyche Mankivka Raion in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine.
He graduated in 1970, from the Kyiv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Art and Design. In 1975, he graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Art. He immigrated to New York in 1995.

Professional background

Bartossik has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1993, and a member of the United Scenic Artists of America since 1998. He worked at the Kiev Monumental and Decorative Art Association from 1976–1995, where he worked in collaboration with artist Ernest Kotkov, creating three-dimensional compositions, including:
Works published in books: