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This book is a catalogue of the exhibition NIKYPHOR, which is on view at the Ukrainian Museum in New York from 19 January to 15 April 2023. It includes a foreword by the museum's director, Peter Doroshenko, an essay by the exhibition's curator, Professor Myroslava Mudrak, a biography of the artist, Nikiforos's works, and a list of 149 works from the museum's collection. All of Nikifor's works are printed in colour. Design by Volodymyr Havrysh. Nikifor Epiphanius Drovniak (1895-1968) was born in Krynytsia (now Poland) to a Lemko mother with serious hearing and speech impairments, and was orphaned during the First World War. In his hometown of Krynica, he was initially mocked as a freak. For most of his life, Nikifor lived in physical and emotional isolation. Art became his outlet and the main activity that gave his life meaning. Among the themes of Nikifor's work are self-portraits and panoramas of Krynytsia with its baths and Orthodox and Catholic churches. Each image is a kaleidoscope of the familiar and the unfamiliar.