Vilen Isaakovych Barskyi (27 October 1930 – 24 December 2012) was a Ukrainian Soviet and German painter and graphic artist.

Vilen Barsky was born on 27 October 1930 in Kyiv, the capital of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Among his students were Vera Veisberg, Olena Golub, Konstyantin Samoilenko, Nicholas Zalevsky, and Yury Kharchenko.

[3] Barskyi's search for and formation of his own path in art was connected with his active interest in the work of outstanding artists in various fields.

He experimented a lot, looking for new means of artistic expression: there are works made using an airbrush (1965), smoke and fire (1968), and a template of his own hand (1969).

1990s — Barsky's works are published in Ukraine and Russia, in particular in the literary-critical magazine Zoil (1997), the anthology Samizdat Veka (1997), the poetry collection Dom s Chimerami (2000), and others.