Viktor Butko is a Massachusetts based oil painter, primarily working in the genre of landscape. He spends much of the year in Maine and Long Island working in nature. He has exhibited annually since 2016 at the Grenning Gallery in Long Island, where his work has garnered the attention of painters, collectors and the press, including FIne Art Connoisseur (where he was just named one of “Five to Watch in 2023”) and East magazine. Most recently he won Best in Show in the Rockport Art Association National exhibition for his painting of Stonington, Maine in the winter, as well as the Robert Douglas Hunter Award at the Guild of Boston Artists for his painting of North Haven. Butko has been an invited guest artist to teach, jury and lecture at institutions such as the Salmagundi Club in NYC and the Lyme Art Association. His works are widely collected in the U.S. and internationally.

Viktor Butko was born in 1978 in Moscow, into a family of artists. He often visited the studio of his grandfather, the famous artist Victor Chulovich, and watched the creation of paintings. As you may imagine, this has inspired him to start painting. Viktor’s first steps in art were directed by his grandfather and his parents, artists Nickolay Butko and Marina Chulovich, he then studied at the Moscow Art School, which is known for a high level of training. After completing his training at the art school, Butko painted at the Academic Dacha of Artists, created by the great Russian artist Ilya Repin for students of the Academy of Fine Arts. There he worked under the guidance of famous artists Alexey Gritsay and Tkachev brothers, which had a big impact on his creativity.

Viktor’s first solo show was held in the United States, in 2002 at the McCarthey Gallery, one of the foremost dealers in the U.S. for Russian Impressionist art. This marked the beginning of a long cooperation with the gallery. Later, in 2016, he took a part in an international plein air event, which was organized by American painter Ben Fenske and art dealer Laura Grenning. As a result of this Russian – American Painting Alliance a large exhibition was held in the Grennig Gallery in Sag Harbor. His work is in the Vyshniy Volochok Museum collection, Collection of the IRRA and private collections in Russia, China and the U.S. Butko regularly paints in Sag Harbor and Maine, as well as Russia and Italy and is represented by the Grenning Gallery, gWatson Gallery, Williams Fine Art, Collins Gallery and Page Waterman Gallery. He lives with his wife, Kelly Carmody, in Waltham Massachusetts, where they paint and teach in and around their studio. Viktor does commission paintings, for more information click HERE.

Older Russian impressionist artists, Alexei and Sergei Tkachev (they are brothers) claim Butko’s work is the ….next generation of greatness.