Nazar Symotiuk

Nazar Symotiuk is a Ukrainian sculptor based in Lviv for whom colour is as sculptural as form. His wall-based works, assembled from thousands of modular elements, build colour physically rather than painting it, so that it shifts as the viewer moves; his recent freestanding figures carry the same structural concerns into the round. A Senior Lecturer at the Lviv National Academy of Arts, he is completing a PhD there on how Ukrainian artists have interpreted op art since the mid-twentieth century — research that directly informs his practice. His work has been shown at NordArt in Germany, where he was a prize finalist, and at Mees-Van De Wiele Galerie in Ghent, and is held in private collections across Europe, Japan and the United States.

• Vasyl Stefanyk Pedagogical College of Kolomyia, Faculty of Fine Arts, Associate Degree in Art Education, 2012
• Lviv National Academy of Arts, Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts, Department of Wood Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), 2016
• Lviv National Academy of Arts, Faculty of Decorative and Applied Arts, Department of Wood Art, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), 2018
• Lviv National Academy of Arts, Postgraduate Program (PhD Candidate), specializing in Decorative Arts, Fine Arts, and Art Restoration, 2022
• Specialized Course in Object Design: Development and Implementation of Custom Chair Design, 2024

Selected Exhibitions

2026
• "Limits of the Visible", White World gallery, Kyiv, (2026)
2025
• “Ratio”, solo exhibition, Mercury Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine
• Art Budapest Market, Budapest, Hungary
2023
• “Mees-Van De Wiele Collective Exhibition”, group show, Mees-Van De Wiele Galerie, Ghent, Belgium
• “On the Edge”, group exhibition featuring fragments of weaponry, LNAA Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
• “Summer Collective 2023”, group exhibition, Mees-Van De Wiele Galerie, Ghent, Belgium
• “Bokotey Prize Exhibition”, group exhibition, Glass Museum, Lviv, Ukraine

2021
• “Nord Art 2021”, international exhibition of contemporary art, Büdelsdorf, Germany
• “Tower 3.0”, International Festival of Architecture and Arts, Svirzh Castle, Ukraine
• “Franko Laboratorium 3.0”, international art project, Franko House, Lviv, Ukraine

2019
• Kyiv Art Week, Kyiv, Ukraine
• “Connection”, group exhibition, Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine

2018
• “De:Forma”, solo exhibition, LNAA Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
• “Modern Decorative”, group exhibition, LNAA Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
• “De:Forma”, solo exhibition, Lviv National Philharmonic, Lviv, Ukraine
• “Lviv Art Days”, Danylo Halytskyi International Airport, Lviv, Ukraine
• “Borders and Meanings”, g...