Yuriy Zmorovych

Biography

Yuriy Valentynovych Zmorovych (April 14, 1946, Kyiv – February 8, 2021, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian artist, media artist, sculptor, performer, poet, multi-instrumentalist, and director. He performed under the creative pseudonyms Zmorro and Minimalissimus. He was born on April 14, 1946, in Kyiv (now Ukraine). He was the son of Ukrainian mathematician Valentin Zmorovich. His sister, Olena Zabara (born 1935), married cybernetic scientist Stanislav Zabara and also became an artist. He graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute (faculties of architecture and art history; degree in art history and theory) and the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music, and Cinematography (department of film and theater directing). He worked as a laboratory assistant and technician at the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1962–1964), head of the folk architecture department (1969–1972) at the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine, editor, screenwriter, and director at the Kyivnaukfilm (1972–1989), Tsentrnautchfilm (Moscow) (1988–1990), the creative association Ekran (Central Television, Moscow) (1992), and REN-TV-Moscow (1994).