Haritonovich participated in the Second World War and graduated from
the Kharkov State Art Institute in 1951. He had been a member of Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1963.
Haritonovich was not
only an artist but was also a professor of Lvov Polygraphic Institute from
1971-1982. Ivan Haritonovich participated in numerous exhibitions
including Soviet Ukraine in Moscow: 1960 and the Exhibition devoted to the
Ukrainian and Russian Unification in 1967.