Vasyl Kosiv

Vasyl Kosiv has been teaching visual communication since 1998. He graduated from Lviv Academy of Arts and received his PhD from Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts. In 2003–2004, he was a visiting lecturer at Kansas State University and visiting scholar at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. Vasyl Kosiv served as a Deputy-Mayor of the City of Lviv from 2006 to 2013 and was responsible for various projects in Education, Culture, Tourism, and Heritage. He was a fellow of educational programs in management, European bureaucracy, urban design, tourism in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Japan. In 2015–2016, he was a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University in New York. He has presented lectures and seminars at Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Southern California, New Jersey City University, and other academic institutions. Vasyl Kosiv defended his habilitation thesis in 2019. His monograph “Ukrainian Identity in Graphic design of 1945–1989” (2019) was awarded a grand-prix at Lviv Book Forum 2019 and a grand-prix at the national rating “Book of the Year”. In the Spring semester of 2021, he was a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw. Since August 2021, Vasyl Kosiv has been a rector of Lviv National Academy of Arts.