Leonid Mezheritski

== Exhibitions and Collections ==

== Exhibitions and Collections ==

As an active participant in the institutional framework of art organizations during the 1950s–1970s, Mezheritski took part in Odesa regional and Ukrainian republican exhibitions{{cite book |title=Respublikanska khudozhnya vystavka, prysvyachena 40-richchyu VLKSM |trans-title=Republican Art Exhibition Dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of VLKSM |publisher=State Publishing House of Fine Arts and Music Literature of the Ukrainian SSR |location=Kyiv |year=1959 |url=https://uartlib.org/istoriya-ukrayinskogo-mistetstva/respublikanska-hudozhnya-vystavka-prysvyachena-40-richchyu-vlksm-katalog/ |language=uk}}{{cite book |title=Respublikanska khudozhnya vystavka, prysvyachena 50-richchyu VLKSM |trans-title=Republican Art Exhibition Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of VLKSM |publisher=Mystetstvo |location=Kyiv |year=1971 |page=20 |url=https://violity.com/ru/106721461-1970-respublikanska-hudozhnya-vistavka-50-richchya-vlksm-katalog |language=uk}}{{cite book |title=Respublikanskaya vystavka khudozhnikov-marinistov |trans-title=Republican Exhibition of Marine Painters |publisher=Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR |location=Kyiv |year=1961 |language=ru}}{{cite news |last=Bandura |first=Yu. |date=1975 |title=Ekho vystavki |trans-title=Echo of the exhibition |newspaper=Izvestiya |issue=149 |page=4 |language=ru}} Regarding: Republican Exhibition "Artists of Ukraine for the 100th Anniversary of V. I. Lenin's Birth", 1970, Kyiv. and the Third [[All-Union]] Exhibition of [[Marine]] Painters in 1961{{cite book |title=Tret'ya Vsesoyuznaya vystavka proizvedeniy khudozhnikov-marinistov: zhivopis' |trans-title=Third All-Union Exhibition of Marine Painters: Painting |year=1961 |page=18 |url=https://www.digar.ee/viewer/ru/nlib-digar:456455/389847/page/1 |language=ru}} (the last of this level and direction in the USSR). Later, he significantly reduced his participation in official exhibitions. Some compositions created in the 1960s–1970s within the system of state art commissions{{cite web |title=Khudozhestvennyy fond SSSR |trans-title=USSR Art Fund |url=https://www.rgali.ru/fund/9269 |language=ru |access-date=2025-02-20}} were exhibited in public spaces of Soviet republics. In 1997, before leaving for Israel, he presented his work to the Odesa public at a [[retrospective exhibition]] at the [[Jewish]] Cultural Centre.{{cite journal |title=Odesa |journal=Literaturno-khudozhestvennyy zhurnal |issue=7 |year=1997 |page=41 |location=Odesa |language=ru}} In 1994 and 2000, he exhibited his works in Berlin, one in a solo show.

As an active participant in the institutional framework of art organizations during the 1950s–1970s, Mezheritski took part in Odesa regional and Ukrainian republican exhibitions{{cite book |title=Respublikanska khudozhnya vystavka, prysvyachena 40-richchyu VLKSM |trans-title=Republican Art Exhibition Dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of VLKSM |publisher=State Publishing House of Fine Arts and Music Literature of the Ukrainian SSR |location=Kyiv |year=1959 |url=https://uartlib.org/istoriya-ukrayinskogo-mistetstva/respublikanska-hudozhnya-vystavka-prysvyachena-40-richchyu-vlksm-katalog/ |language=uk}}{{cite book |title=Respublikanska khudozhnya vystavka, prysvyachena 50-richchyu VLKSM |trans-title=Republican Art Exhibition Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of VLKSM |publisher=Mystetstvo |location=Kyiv |year=1971 |page=20 |url=https://violity.com/ru/106721461-1970-respublikanska-hudozhnya-vistavka-50-richchya-vlksm-katalog |language=uk}}{{cite book |title=Respublikanskaya vystavka khudozhnikov-marinistov |trans-title=Republican Exhibition of Marine Painters |publisher=Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR |location=Kyiv |year=1961 |language=ru}}{{cite news |last=Bandura |first=Yu. |date=1975 |title=Ekho vystavki |trans-title=Echo of the exhibition |newspaper=Izvestiya |issue=149 |page=4 |language=ru}} Regarding: Republican Exhibition "Artists of Ukraine for the 100th Anniversary of V. I. Lenin's Birth", 1970, Kyiv. and the Third [[All-Union]] Exhibition of [[Seascape|Marine]] Painters in 1961{{cite book |title=Tret'ya Vsesoyuznaya vystavka proizvedeniy khudozhnikov-marinistov: zhivopis' |trans-title=Third All-Union Exhibition of Marine Painters: Painting |year=1961 |page=18 |url=https://www.digar.ee/viewer/ru/nlib-digar:456455/389847/page/1 |language=ru}} (the last of this level and direction in the USSR). Later, he significantly reduced his participation in official exhibitions. Some compositions created in the 1960s–1970s within the system of state art commissions{{cite web |title=Khudozhestvennyy fond SSSR |trans-title=USSR Art Fund |url=https://www.rgali.ru/fund/9269 |language=ru |access-date=2025-02-20}} were exhibited in public spaces of Soviet republics. In 1997, before leaving for Israel, he presented his work to the Odesa public at a [[retrospective exhibition]] at the [[Jewish]] Cultural Centre.{{cite journal |title=Odesa |journal=Literaturno-khudozhestvennyy zhurnal |issue=7 |year=1997 |page=41 |location=Odesa |language=ru}} In 1994 and 2000, he exhibited his works in Berlin, one in a solo show.

Mezheritski's work is represented in the collection of the Galagan State Art Museum in Chernihiv, Ukraine, by the work "Self-Portrait with a Dog" (1961, oil on canvas, 180×110 cm; included in the register of the Ukrainian Museum Fund). Works are also held in private collections in Ukraine, the [[United States]], [[Canada]], Germany, [[Great Britain]], Israel, and [[Russia]]. Several landscape works were acquired in 1973 by the [[Japan|Japanese]] gallery Gekkōsō (Tokyo){{cite journal |last=Belozerov |first=V. V. |year=2023 |title='Gekkōsō' i Nakamura Yōko. Blesk monety pod lunoy: o deyatel'nosti galerei i rynke sovetskogo iskusstva v Yaponii |trans-title=Gekkōsō and Nakamura Yōko. Coin Shine Under the Moon: About the Gallery's Activities and the Market for Soviet Art in Japan |journal=Yezhegodnik Yaponiya |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=251–275 |issn=2687-1440 |doi=10.55105/2687-1440-2023-52-251-275 |url=https://www.yearbookjapan.ru/jour/article/view/416/376 |language=ru|doi-access=free }} and exhibited at exhibitions organized by the gallery.

Mezheritski's work is represented in the collection of the Galagan State Art Museum in Chernihiv, Ukraine, by the work "Self-Portrait with a Dog" (1961, oil on canvas, 180×110 cm; included in the register of the Ukrainian Museum Fund). Works are also held in private collections in Ukraine, the [[United States]], [[Canada]], Germany, [[Great Britain]], Israel, and [[Russia]]. Several landscape works were acquired in 1973 by the [[Japan|Japanese]] gallery Gekkōsō (Tokyo){{cite journal |last=Belozerov |first=V. V. |year=2023 |title='Gekkōsō' i Nakamura Yōko. Blesk monety pod lunoy: o deyatel'nosti galerei i rynke sovetskogo iskusstva v Yaponii |trans-title=Gekkōsō and Nakamura Yōko. Coin Shine Under the Moon: About the Gallery's Activities and the Market for Soviet Art in Japan |journal=Yezhegodnik Yaponiya |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=251–275 |issn=2687-1440 |doi=10.55105/2687-1440-2023-52-251-275 |url=https://www.yearbookjapan.ru/jour/article/view/416/376 |language=ru|doi-access=free }} and exhibited at exhibitions organized by the gallery.