Bohdan Hubal is a Ukrainian artist, designer, honored artist of Ukraine, professor, inventor, and accredited member of the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture.
He was born on January 18, 1952, in the village of Khashchovanya, Skoliv district, Lviv region. Graduated from the Lviv School of Applied Arts named after Trush (department of artistic ceramics), and later – the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (now the Lviv National Academy of Arts).
Since 1990, he has been a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, where he also held the position of chairman of the board of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional organization.
Since 2005, he heads the cluster of folk arts and crafts “Constellation”. Since 2003, he has been working at the Vasyl Stefanyk Institute of Arts of the Precarpathian National University, where he holds the position of professor of the Department of Design and Theory of Art.
Bohdan Gubal’s creative achievements have been recognized with numerous awards, including regional awards named after Vasyl Stefanyk, Ivan Vagylevych, Yaroslav Lukavetskyi, as well as an international prize named after Ilya Repin. Its activities cover artistic art, design, and the development of folk arts and crafts in Ukraine.