Ondrej Rypacek

Ondřej Rypáček is a London-based painter working primarily in abstraction. His earlier works explore gesture, surface and chromatic tension through a disciplined yet instinctive engagement with oil paint.

Trained in contemporary fine art at MFA level, his practice balances control and immediacy: layered structures sit beneath expressive marks, while colour relationships are developed through sustained, material investigation. Rather than narrative, the paintings focus on presence — how colour, weight and surface interact within a confined field.
Rypáček’s background in theoretical computer science subtly informs the work’s structural coherence. Beneath apparent spontaneity lies a concern for balance, rhythm and internal logic. The paintings are not decorative improvisations but constructed visual events, where each decision accumulates into a resolved whole.

His abstract works have been exhibited in London and are held in private collections.

MFA, London Metropolitan University
Diploma figurative painting, LARA
PhD Theoretical Computer Science, University of Nottingham

Dec 2023-Jan 2024, CARNEVALE : Friendly Little Monsters, Vivienne Roberts Projects, London
Oct 25th-30th 2023, Don't Look Back, Vivienne Roberts Projects, London
Sep 12th-16th 2023, PARE, Graduation Exhibition, London Met, London
Mar 30th 2023, Spring Show, London Met, London
Mar 23rd 2023, Box of Tricks, C4AD, London
Dec 2022, Winter Show, London Met, London
May 2019, Artist Open, 155A Gallery, London
Feb 2018, #ThinkHand, exhibition of commissioned work, Bankside Gallery
Dec 2018, Painting Open, No Format Gallery, London