Turovsky returned to Kyiv in 1944 and continued his studies at the Shevchenko State Art School.
Mikhail Turovsky forsook his official career for the sake of creative freedom and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1979.
His international reputation grew as he exhibited in New York, Jerusalem, Paris, Brussels, Madrid, Venice, Arles[5] and other cities in Europe.
Among his well-known works are the cycle Holocaust, The End of an Utopia', many nudes, landscapes and still lifes; illustrations to the works of Ivan Franko, Vasyl Stefanyk, Aleksandr Blok, Sholom-Aleichem, Lion Feuchtwanger, Johannes Becher, and many other writers.
[10] He is the father of the painter and composer Roman Turovsky and the poet Genya Turovskaya.