Winners of the Shevchenko Prize 2025

The decree for the awards was signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Shevchenko Prize was awarded to:

• director Vasyl Vovkun for the opera «Lys Mykyta» and other works;
• poet Yuriy Izdrik for the poetry collection «Collection»;
• artist Zhanna Kadyrova for the exhibition «Trajectory of Flights»;
• journalist Pavlo Kazarin for the project on wartime journalism;
• masters of petrykivka painting Valentyna Karpets-Yermolayeva, Andriy Pikush, Maria Pikush, and Natalia Rybak for the project «Petrykivka Painting: Defending Identity»;
• violinist Bohdana Pivnenko for concert programs;
• director Oleksandr Sanin, cameraman Serhiy Mykhalchuk, composer Alla Zahaykevych for the feature film «Dovbush»;
• composer Oleksandr Shymko for the sacred mystery «Viryj».

The amount of the National Shevchenko Prize is 484,480 hryvnias.