[citation needed] In 1980 he came to Lviv, and in 1981–1987 studied in the Ukrainian Institute of Printing (specialization in Graphics Arts), while also painting village churches for a living.

He participated in exhibitions and art events in Lviv, Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, but mostly abroad – in Poland, Austria, Hungary, and Germany.

[8] In a broad context, Yahoda's painting continues the European expressionist line of Goya – Munk – Bacon with its tragic worldview, the perception of the world as a territory of horror, the anticipation of catastrophe, the grotesque and the mysticism.

[12] In 1997 Yahoda published his novel "The War of Small Cruel Numbers" (with the avant-garde "broken" writing technique), as a Ukrainian reminiscence of G. Heine's "Ideas.

[citation needed] In 2008, Yahoda took part in the project "Ecclesiastes of Another Alphabet"[15] in the "Mezzanine" art studio in Kyiv where he presented his artistic manifesto "The Barbarian Trinity".

In 2001, they co-created the set design for the play "The Winter Tale" based on the works of William Shakespeare, that was performed in the National Theater in Budapest.

They also worked jointly on two more plays – "Dziady" by Adam Mickiewicz in the Beregovsky Theater (2001), and "Shakespeare's Wreath" at the Gyula Castle Theatre (2005).