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Ivan Maksymovych Soshenko (, 2 June 1807 Bohuslav, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire — 18 July 1876 Korsun) was a Ukraine painter.
Soshenko studied at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1834 to 1838, then taught painting in gymnasiums in Nizhyn from 1839 to 1846, Nemyriv from 1846 to 1856, and Kyiv. His work included portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, and religious .
In 1835, he met and befriended Taras Shevchenko.Lari Prokop. Taras Shevchenko biography at the Taras Shevchenko museum Along with teaching him the use of watercolors,Anna Reid. Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine . Westview Press, 2000. p 78 Soshenko also introduced him to authors and painters Yevhen Hrebinka, Vasily Zhukovsky, Karl Briullov, and Alexey Venetsianov, and helped in the purchase Shevchenko's freedom from serfdom. Later, he helped Shevchenko to be admitted to the St Petersburg Academy of Arts.
Mykhailo Chaly published a biography of Soshenko in Kyiv in 1876.
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