Valentin Khrushch (Ukrainian: Валентин Дмитрович Хрущ, romanized: Valentyn Dmytrovych KhrushchJanuary 24, 1943, Odesa – October 24, 2005, Kimry, Tver region) was a Ukrainian artist, one of the central figures of the Odesa school of unofficial art.

[2] In the 1950s he studied at the Odesa Art School (teachers Zaitsev, Yegorov, Pavlyuk, Fraerman).

[3] Valentin Khrushch was one of the key figures in non-conformist and underground art in Odesa, and then in Moscow, which was developing in the 1960s and 1970s.

[6] Since the late 1970s, name of Valentin Khrushch, as well as his colleagues of the "Odesa nonconformism" Alexander Anufriev, Vladimir Strelnikov, Lyudmila Yastreb, Victor Marinyuk, Stanislav Sychov, Valeriy Basanets began to appear in foreign catalogs and exhibitions.

[9] Last years, Valentin Khrushch spent in Kimry, Tver region, where he died from cancer on January 24, 2005.