Vyacheslav Mashnitsky was born in 1964 in Kherson. Ukrainian artist, video artist, author of objects and installations, curator. Graduated from ODKU them. M. Grekov (1984), where he studied at G. Pavlyuk; KDIH (1992) at V. Shatalin. The founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kherson and the Kherson Regional Charitable Foundation named after him. Pauline Rayco. Together with I. Platonov he organized the gallery "The Union of heirs / 02" (2002). Member of the NSCU (1994). Lives and works in Kherson. It adheres to a realistic form of painting, as a means of a thin, sensitive philosophy of contemplation of everyday life.